Bill Parker

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 number2015.67.38.76

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: "Bill PARKER" Statistics and quote by respective artist printed on card verso, in black: "Height: 5’ 9 ½”/ Weight: 175 / Born: Jacksonville, Fla. / Home: Eastford, Conn. / Throws: Right / Bats: Right FP: Portriga / FC: 4X5 View FF: Plus-X / FD: Dektol / FPh: Hippolyte Bayard / Bill Parker / "A world complete without me which is / present to me is the world of my im- / mortality. This is an importance of / film – and a danger. It takes my life / as my haunting of the world, either be- / cause I left it unloved (The Flying / Dutchman) or because I left unfinished / business (Hamlet). So there is reason / for me to want the camera to deny that / the world is complete without me. But / there is equal reason to want it affirm- / ed that the world is coherent without / me. That is essential to what I want / of immortality: nature’s survival of / me. It will mean that the present / judgment upon me is not yet the last.” / --Stanley Cavell, The World Viewed: / Reflections on the Ontology of Film / p.160”

MarkingsNumber printed inside baseball image, on card verso, upper right, in black: "76"

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DescriptionIndividual "trading card" with portrait of Bill Parker reaching back to throw baseball with all his might.

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