Cal Kowal

Artist Mike Mandel (American, born 1950)

Date1975

MediumPhotolithograph

DimensionsImage: 3 1/8 × 2 3/16 inches (7.94 × 5.56 cm)
Sheet: 3 1/2 × 2 1/2 inches (8.89 × 6.35 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2015.67.38.65

SignedCopyright printed on card verso, bottom, in black: "Gum by Topps Chewing Gum, Brooklyn / Litho by Mike Roberts, Berkeley / © Mike Mandel"

InscribedName printed on sheet recto, lower left, in white: "Cal / KOWAL" Statistics and quote by respective artist printed on card verso, in black: "Height: 5’ 9 ½” / Weight: 137 / Born: Chicago / Home: Cincinnati / Throws: Right / Bats: Right FP: Luminos F DW #3 / FC: Diana SLX FF: Plus-X / FD: FG-7 / FPh: Johnny Bench / Cal Kowal / I grew up in Chicago, in fact, just / five blocks west of Wrigley Field - / Home of the Chicago Cubs. So, base- / ball was something weekendly familiar / - crowds, beer, traffic jams, and / lots of hustle. Our favorite organ- / ized venture was parking cars under / the elevated trains, for $1.5 or / $2.00 a car. Amazingly we chalked / up about $50 a piece. Unfortunately / we had to split with the Chicago / Cops, who besides their other jobs / were always on the make."

MarkingsNumber printed inside baseball image, on card verso, upper right, in black: "65"

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DescriptionIndividual "trading card" with portrait of Cal Kowal holding a baseball bat and wearing ball cap, glasses, and shirt which reads "Big RED".

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