Fred Sommer
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)
Sheet: 3 1/2 × 2 1/2 inches (8.89 × 6.35 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2015.67.38.111
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, bottom, in white: "Fred SOMMER"
Statistics and quote by respective artist printed on card verso, in black: "Height: 6 ft. minus / Weight: 165 lbs. plus / Born: Angri, Italy / Home: Prescott, Az. / Throws: R / Bats: R FP: pop / FC: Pinhole FF: panochromatic / FD: ufg / FPh: Vermeer/ Fred Sommer / Nothing methinks is marvelous and / hairy like a face or tender ass. If / my hair do but tickle me I must / search. It is reasonable that a good / ear should tune to such bones, for / the bottles of hay that follow us in / venturous fairy hoards are not nuts / that left alone could dry like peas. / O. fair queen, chide me not at this / fountain of crying; it is a discord / only of thunder and water and rings."
MarkingsNumber printed inside baseball image, on card verso, upper right, in black: "111"
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