Earl Monroe Basketball Card
date: label: date made
content: 1972
label: copyright date
content: 1969
name: label: publisher
content: Topps Chewing Gum
label: publisher
content: NBA Properties, Inc.
label: depicted
content: Monroe, Earl
label: maker
content: Topps Chewing Gum
label: maker
content: NBA Properties, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: This Earl Monroe basketball card is number 73 in a series of 264 that was manufactured by the Topps Company Inc. for the 1972-1973 National Basketball Association (NBA) season. The front of the card features a posed picture of the New York Knicks guard on a yellow background. The card’s reverse features a small cartoon image illustrating the factoid that “They call him Earl the Pearl,” as well as a short biography and career statistics.
label: Description
content: Earl Monroe was drafted by the Baltimore Bullets in 1967, winning the NBA Rookie of the Year award. Traded to the Knicks in 1971, he won an NBA Championship with the Knicks in 1973. Monroe was inducted to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1990, and named one of the 50 greatest NBA players in 1996.
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: 1982.0568.096
label: accession number
content: 1982.0568
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0568.096
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