Paul Unruh Basketball Card
date: label: date made
content: 1951
name: label: depicted
content: Unruh, Paul
notes: label: Description
content: This Paul Unruh basketball card is number 11 in the third series cards produced by Berk Ross Incorporated in 1951. Paul Unruh was a star at Bradley University, leading the team in scoring all four seasons, as well as leading the team to second place finishes in both the NIT and NCAA tournaments in 1950. In 1950 Paul was named a consensus First Team All-American.
label: Description
content: The “Hit Parade of Champions” was a set of 72 cards issued in four packs of 18 cards in 1951. The packs contained cards in two-card panels, and advertised the cards as featuring “Who’s Who in Sports” with “Pictures of 18 Champions in all Fields of Sports.” The card hash an image of the athlete on the front, and the back detailed the players name, position, team, age, hometown, height, weight, and championship credentials. Unlike many card sets, the Beck Ross Hit Parade of Champions featured athletes from a variety of sports including both professional and college baseball, basketball, and football as well as track and field, tennis, boxing, and golf.
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: 1982.0568.148
label: accession number
content: 1982.0568
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0568.148
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