Tom Washington Basketball Card
Object Details
- publisher
- NBA Properties, Inc.
- depicted
- Washington, Tom
- NBA Properties, Inc.
- Description
- This Tom Washington basketball card is number 240 in a series of 264 that was manufactured by the Topps Company Inc. for the 1972-1973 American Basketball Association (ABA) season. The front of the card features a posed picture of the New York Nets forward on a green background. The card’s reverse features a small cartoon image illustrating the factoid that “Tom’s nickname is ‘Trooper’,” as well as a short biography and career statistics.
- Tom spent his entire career in the ABA from 1967-1973, as a member of the Pittsburgh Pipers, Minnesota Pipers, Los Angeles Stars, Floridians, and New York Nets, winning a title with the Pipers in 1968. Washington also was an ABA All-Star in 1969, and tled that league in field goal percentage in 1968 and again in 1970.
- 1972
- copyright date
- 1969
- ID Number
- 1982.0568.118
- accession number
- 1982.0568
- catalog number
- 1982.0568.118
- Object Name
- card, basketball
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 8.89 cm x 6.35 cm
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
- Basketball Cards
- National Museum of American History
- name of sport or game
- Basketball
- level of sport
- Professional
- web subject
- Sports
- Record ID
- nmah_665055
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-ddae-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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