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Jim Dow

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 number2015.67.38.44
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: "Jim DOW" Statistics and quote by respective artist printed on card verso, in black: "Height: 5’ 8” / Weight: 140 / Born: Boston, Mass. / Home: the same / Throws: Left / Bats: Right FP: A-20/ FC: Deardorff FF: Versapan / FD: Amidol / FPh: Differs / Jim Dow / Photo strikes me as second-hand, / ball, in general, is more immediate. / In high school I was fat, slow and / couldn’t hit curve balls. Had it / been different I would have chosen / ball. I still would."
MarkingsNumber printed inside baseball image, on card verso, upper right, in black: "44"
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DescriptionIndividual "trading card" with portrait of Jim Dow wearing glasses and baseball cap with slight smirk.
Copyright© Mike Mandel
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