Card, Baseball
Object number2022.77.2
Manufacturer
Bowman Gum Haelan Laboratories, Inc.
Date1954
MediumPaper; Ink
Credit LineHeinz History Center Collections
DescriptionRectangular 1954 Bowman baseball card of Philadelphia Athletics player Peter Suder. Front features a color photograph of a man wearing a baseball hat and shirt, looking forward and above photographer. Black text set against yellow background below image.DimensionsHeight x Width (Horizontal orientation): 2.5 x 3.5 in. (6.4 x 8.9 cm)InscriptionsText below image reads: "Peter Suder".
Back:
Text within baseball image reads: PETER SUDER". Text within the baseball to the right of the baseball bat reads: "NO. / 99". Text below the bat reads: "SECOND BASE. Philadelphia ATHLETICS. Born: Aliquippa, Pa., / 4/16/17. Height: 6. Weight: 175. Bats: R. Throws: R.".
Text below this reads: "Pete is one of the real veterans of the Phila- / delphia Athletics. He has been with the team / since they drafted him in October 1940. During / those years he has played at second, third and / short. Pete had his best season with the Ath-letics in 1953, batting .286 for 115 games, his / highest average since 1940. He had 130 hits and / drove in 35 runs. In 1950 Pete took part in five / double plays at second base, tying a major / league record." To the right of this text lists game stats.
Text across the bottom of the card reads: "How many games did Carey Selph of Chicago White / Sox go without a strikeout?". Upside-down text printed in the lower right corner in the red section reads: "Ans.: 59".
MarksMaker's mark at the top on the back of the card reads: "©B.G.H.L.I. PRTD. IN U.S.A."
Historical NotesPete Suder Philadelphia Athletics baseball card.
Related person
Peter Suder
(1916 - 2006)
Related institution
Philadelphia Athletics
Previous owner
Carey Selph
Terms
On View
Not on view
1972
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