Grace Mayer

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 number2015.67.38.23

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: "Grace MAYER" Statistics and quote by respective artist printed on card verso, in black: "Height: 5’ 4 ½” / Weight: 105 / Born: New York, N.Y. / Home: New York, N.Y. / Throws: Right / Bats: Right FP: / FC: I have never FF: made a photo and / FD: consider / FPh: this a great / contribution to the medium. / Grace Mayer / I hate baseball… Once upon a time / in another museum, I was obliged to / stage an exhibition on “Baseball in / New York." With a colleague, I man- / aged to assemble over a thousand / pieces, from Currier & Ives to break- / fast. On a day before the opening / I diffidently approached my co-worker / and asked him “How do you compute a / batting average?” To which he re- / plied: “Hush, I’ve been meaning to / look that up, too.””

MarkingsNumber printed inside baseball image, on card verso, upper right, in black: "23"

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DescriptionIndividual "trading card" with portrait of Grace Mayer wearing baseball cap, large sunglasses, patterned dress, and large baseball glove.

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