Zelmo Beaty Basketball Card
date: label: date made
content: 1973
name: label: depicted
content: Beaty, Zelmo
label: publisher
content: NBA Properties, Inc.
label: maker
content: NBA Properties, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: This Zelmo Beaty basketball card is number 225 in a series of 264 manufactured by the Topps Company Inc. of New York, New York for the 1973-1974 American Basketball Association season. The front of the card features a posed picture of the Utah Stars center. The card’s reverse features a small cartoon image, followed by a short biographical sketch and career statistics.
label: Description
content: Zelmo "Big Z" Beaty was a two-time all-star in the NBA playing for the St. Louis/Atlanta Hawks from 1962 to 1969. After signing to play for the ABA's Los Angeles Stars, Beaty was legally ordered to sit out the 1969-70 season. Joining the Stars (who had moved to Utah) for the 1970-71 season, Beaty would go on to win the 1971 ABA championship, the 1971 Playoff MVP award, would be a three-time ABA All-Star, and was named to the All-ABA 2nd Team twice by the time he retired in 1974.
topic: label: name of sport or game
content: Basketball
label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: web subject
content: Sports
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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: 1982.0568.005
label: accession number
content: 1982.0568
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0568.005
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