Keith Erickson 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: Erickson, Keith
label: maker
content: Topps Chewing Gum
label: maker
content: NBA Properties, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: This Keith Erickson basketball card is number 140 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 Los Angeles Lakers forward-center on a blue background. The card’s reverse features a small cartoon image illustrating the factoid that “Keith played volleyball in 1968 Olympics,” as well as a short biography and career statistics.
label: Description
content: It is apparent Erickson is wearing his jersey backwards, which looks strange compared to modern cards but was common in basketball cards until the early 1970s. It is believed that the player’s would forfeit their fee to the team if the team name appeared so many players wore their jerseys backwards, wore their warm-ups, or posed in such a way to obscure the team name.
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: 1982.0568.074
label: accession number
content: 1982.0568
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0568.074
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