Bart 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 number2015.67.38.12

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, top, in black: "Bart PARKER" Statistics and quote by respective artist printed on card verso, in black: "Height: 5’ 2” / Weight: 185 / Born: Pascagoula, Miss. / Home: East side / Throws: Forward/ Bats: Both-either FP: Sun.Chicago Trib. / FC: Noisey FF: Yng.Frankenstein / FD: La Froige’s / FPh: Gina Lollabrigida / Bart Parker / An old photographer retired to his / farm, where he found a baseball in / his field. He plowed it under. / “I believe everything.” / --Henry Miller"

MarkingsNumber printed inside baseball image, on card verso, upper right, in black: "12"

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DescriptionIndividual "trading card" with portrait of a bearded Bart Parker wearing baseball cap, catcher's mitt and chest protector as he leans back to throw a baseball.

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