Calvin Murphy Basketball Card
date: label: date made
content: 1972
label: copyright date
content: 1969
name: label: publisher
content: NBA Properties, Inc.
label: publisher
content: Topps Chewing Gum
label: depicted
content: Murphy, Calvin
label: maker
content: Topps Chewing Gum
label: maker
content: NBA Properties, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: This Calvin Murphy basketball card is number 31 in a series of 264 that was manufactured by the Topps Company Inc. for the 1972-1973 National Basketball Association season. The front of the card features a posed picture of the Houston Rockets guard on a pink background. The card’s reverse features a small cartoon image illustrating the factoid that “Calvin is an expert baton twirler,” as well as a short biography and career statistics.
label: Description
content: Murphy played for the San Diego/Houston Rockets for his entire 13-year NBA career. An excellent free throw shooter, Murphy twice led the NBA in the category, and in the 1980-81 season made a then-record 78 straight free throws. Murphy was named to an All-Star team in 1979 and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1993.
topic: label: name of sport or game
content: Basketball
label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: web subject
content: Sports
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Basketball Cards
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0568.097
label: accession number
content: 1982.0568
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0568.097
objectType: label: Object Name
content: card, basketball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 8.89 cm x 6.35 cm