Uncut Baseball strip cards with Boxing cards (W572)
Intact Baseball strip cards (five) with Boxing cards (W572). Unnumbered cards printed side by side in groups of 10. Full-length action-posed boxers and baseball players. Back is blank. The manufacturer of these cards is not known but it is believed that they were distributed with the 1923 W580 boxing strip cards. This strip contains (from left to right): Ted Lewis, Welterweight; Willie Ritchie, Lightweight; Abe Attell, Featherweight; Harry Wills, Heavyweight; Jack Britton, Welterweight; Jimmy Johnston, Brook.N.L.; Steve O'Niell [sic] (O'Neill), Cleve. A.L.; Ken Williams, St. Louis A.L.; Rogers Hornsby, St. Louis N.L.; Frank Frisch, New York, N.L. Copyright symbol CIFS (Copyright International Feature Service) included on front of Baseball player cards.
Artwork Details
- Title: Uncut Baseball strip cards with Boxing cards (W572)
- Date: ca.1925–31
- Medium: Commercial photolithograph
- Dimensions: Sheet: 2 1/2 × 13 1/2 in. (6.3 × 34.3 cm)
- Classifications: Prints, Ephemera
- Credit Line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick
- Object Number: 63.350.536.572.1
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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