Bob Fichter

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 number2015.67.38.128

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, upper right, in white: "Bob FICHTER" Statistics and quote by respective artist printed on card verso, in black: "Height: 6’ / Weight: 140 / Born: Fort Meyers / Home: Tallahassee, Fla. / Throws: Right / Bats: Right FP: Rives etching / FC: Seneca 11X14 FF: Fujichrome / FD: J.W. Dant / FPh: Eileen Cowin / Bob Fichter / Photography is more fun than base- / ball."

MarkingsNumber printed inside baseball image, on card verso, upper right, in black: "128"

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DescriptionIndividual "trading card" with portrait of Bob Fichter with beard and arm raised to throw baseball.

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