Ron Walker

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 number2015.67.38.5

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: "Ron WALKER" Statistics and quote by respective artist printed on card verso, in black: "Height: 5’ 9”/ Weight: 165 / Born: Chattanooga, Tenn. / Home: Philadelphia, Pa. / Throws: Right / Bats: Right FP: N.Y. Times / FC: Leica M5 FF: Amarcord / FD: Robert Moses / FPh: Henry Fonda / Ron Walker / “A tender iguana might be more / palatable than an old hen.” / --E.W.”

MarkingsNumber printed inside baseball image, on card verso, upper right, in black: "5"

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DescriptionIndividual "trading card" with portrait of Ron Walker wearing baseball cap, glove, and plaid shirt; his arm is raised above his head as he prepares to pitch a baseball.

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