Don Blumberg
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)
Sheet: 3 1/2 × 2 1/2 inches (8.89 × 6.35 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2015.67.38.72
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: "Don Blumberg"
Statistics and quote by respective artist printed on card verso, in black: "Height: 5’ 10 ½” / Weight: 167 / Born: Brooklyn, NY/ Home: Brooklyn, NY / Throws: Right / Bats: Right FP: Varigam / FC: Nikon F FF: FX TX PX / FD: D-76 / FPh: Carl Toth / Don Blumberg / If it were not for baseball I would / never have become a photographer. In / fact, I was a baseball player before / I became a photographer. I have al- / ways make it a practice never to mix / the two. Therefore you may note that / I have never taken a picture of a / baseball, bat or glove or gam in/ process. I might also add that as / a photographer I never loved my cam- / era, likewise when I played baseball / I never loved my bat. Who knows how / much this too attributed to my gen- / eral achievement"
MarkingsNumber printed inside baseball image, on card verso, upper right, in black: "72"
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Copyright© Mike Mandel
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