Bob Cumming

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 number2015.67.38.56

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: "Bob / CUMMING" Statistics and quote by respective artist printed on card verso, in black: "Height: 6’ 2”/ Weight: 180 / Born: Worcester, Mass. / Home: Orange, Ca. / Throws: Right / Bats: Right FP: Agfa #3 / FC: 8X10 View FF: Tri-X / FD: D-76 / FPh: / Bob Cumming / When I was in 6th grade, I wanted / like Hell to be in Little League and / used to practice every day with my / friends. They formed a team finally, / and I missed the geographic cut-off / area by one black. All my friends / made it. It was one of those really / critical adolescent failures, and I / never played baseball again, to this / day. I think it is one of the dull- / est, pointless exercised in the world / of sports…eclipsed only by the / game of solitaire. "

MarkingsNumber printed inside baseball image, on card verso, upper right, in black: "56"

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DescriptionIndividual "trading card" with portrait of Bob Cumming wearing sunglasses and baseball cap with arm raised to throw ball.

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