Les Hunter Basketball Card
date: label: date made
content: 1973
label: copyright date
content: 1970
label: copyright date
content: 1971
name: label: publisher
content: Topps Chewing Gum
label: publisher
content: NBA Properties, Inc.
label: depicted
content: Hunter, Les
label: maker
content: NBA Properties, Inc.
label: maker
content: Topps Chewing Gum
notes: label: Description
content: This Les Hunter basketball card is number 263 in a series of 264 manufactured by the Topps Company Inc. for the 1973-1974 ABA season. The front of the card features a posed picture of the Memphis Tams forward. The card’s reverse features a small cartoon image illustrating the factoid that “They Call him ‘Big Game’ hunter,” as well as a short biographical sketch and career statistics.
label: Description
content: Hunter won the 1963 NCAA Basketball Championship as a member of Loyola University of Chicago before playing one season in the NBA with the Baltimore Bullets in 1964-65. After two years out of major league basketball, Hunter joined the American Basketball Association for the 1967-68 season, ultimately playing six seasons in that league with the Minnesota Muskies, Miami Floridians, New York Nets, Kentucky Colonels, and Memphis Tams. Hunter would twice be a member of the ABA's All-Star team.
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: 1982.0568.022
label: accession number
content: 1982.0568
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0568.022
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