Calvin Murphy Basketball Card
Object Details
- Description
- This Calvin Murphy basketball card is number 31 in a series of 264 that was manufactured by the Topps Company Inc. for the 1972-1973 National Basketball Association season. The front of the card features a posed picture of the Houston Rockets guard on a pink background. The card’s reverse features a small cartoon image illustrating the factoid that “Calvin is an expert baton twirler,” as well as a short biography and career statistics.
- Murphy played for the San Diego/Houston Rockets for his entire 13-year NBA career. An excellent free throw shooter, Murphy twice led the NBA in the category, and in the 1980-81 season made a then-record 78 straight free throws. Murphy was named to an All-Star team in 1979 and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1993.
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 1972
- copyright date
- 1969
- ID Number
- 1982.0568.097
- accession number
- 1982.0568
- catalog number
- 1982.0568.097
- publisher
- NBA Properties, Inc.
- Topps Chewing Gum
- depicted
- Murphy, Calvin
- maker
- Topps Chewing Gum
- NBA Properties, Inc.
- 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
- name of sport or game
- Basketball
- level of sport
- Professional
- web subject
- Sports
- Record ID
- nmah_665034
