Card, Baseball
Object number2004.178.193
Manufacturer
The Topps Company, Inc.
Date1972
MediumCardboard; Ink
Credit LineGift of Craig Britcher
DescriptionRectangular baseball card featuring a man posing while holding a baseball bat over his left shoulder. Player is wearing a white jersey with black and yellow stripes around sleeves and at waist. He is also wearing a yellow hat with a black rim, with a black Pittsburgh Pirates logo in the center of the hat.DimensionsHeight x Width: 3.5 × 2.5 in. (8.9 × 6.4 cm)InscriptionsOn front: Text across top reads: "PIRATES". Text across bottom reads: "AL OLIVER".
On back: "575" text in top left corner. Text across top on left side reads: "AL OLIVER / PITTSBURGH OUTFIELD / HT: 6'1" WT: 197 BORN: 10-14-46 / BATS: LEFT THROWS: LEFT / HOME: PITTSBURGH, PENN.".
Text across top in center reads: "WHICH / BRAVES / HURLER / ONCE / PLAYED / PRO / BASKETBALL?
Upside down text underneath image in right corner reads: "RON REED".
Text through center reads: "A fine defensive outfielder as well as one of NL's best fielding / 1st basemen, Al makes good contact at-bat, doesn't fan too / often".
Player statistics in a chart printed across lower section.
Historical Notes1972 Topps AL Oliver Pittsburgh Pirates baseball card.
Related person
Albert Oliver Jr.
(born 1946)
Related institution
Pittsburgh Pirates
(founded 1887)
Related person
Ron Reed
On View
Not on view
1972
1972
1972
1972
