Tom Barrow

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 number2015.67.38.60

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, bottom, in white: "Tom BARROW" Statistics and quote by respective artist printed on card verso, in black: "Height: 5’ 11”/ Weight: 144 / Born: Kansas City, Mo. / Home: Albuquerque, N.M. / Throws: Right / Bats: Right FP: N.Y. Times / FC: Zenith 127 FF: Mylar / FD: Fredericks Crème / FPh: H. Lee Hansen/ Hermosa Bch. Ca. / Tom Barrow / Once, when I was about 12 years old, / my Dad took me to Stan & Biggies / Steak House in St. Louis – I met / Stan the Man and received an 8 x 10” / glossy, black and white, signed / print as a memory of that day. I / can no longer find that photograph."

MarkingsNumber printed inside baseball image, on card verso, upper right, in black: "60"

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DescriptionIndividual "trading card" with portrait of a mustachioed Tom Barrow wearing glasses and ball cap and looking up towards to sun.

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