Todd 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 number2015.67.38.46

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 white: "Todd WALKER" Statistics and quote by respective artist printed on card verso, in black: "Height: 6’ 1” / Weight: 168 / Born: Salt Lake City / Home: Gainesville, Fla. / Throws: Right / Bats: Right FP: Just Chrome Alum / FC: Ansco Memo FF: for shortstop / FD: / FPh: Dizzy Dean / Todd Walker / Remember, if all of you bubble gum / chewers out there really practice, / and learn to really play the game, / you too, can be Big Leaguers and / someday, with lots of luck you can / get your pitcher on a baseball card. / So work hard and don’t give up or / sell out and you will really click, / but it takes time and lots of expos- / ure. So stand steady and learn to / control your development. Shoot / straight and, as they say in golf, / keep your eye on the ball.”

MarkingsNumber printed inside baseball image, on card verso, upper right, in black: "46"

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DescriptionIndividual "trading card" with portrait of Todd Walker in a stadium wearing baseball cap and holding bat carefully in front of his chest.

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