Simmie Hill Basketball Card
Simmie Hill Basketball Card
- Description
- This Simmie Hill basketball card is number 184 in a series of 264 that was manufactured by the Topps Company Inc. of New York, New York for the 1973-1974 ABA season. The front of the card features a posed picture of San Diego Conquistadors forward Simmie Hill. The card’s reverse features a small cartoon image illustrating the factoid that “Simmie’s hobby is dancing,” as well as a short biographical sketch and career statistics.
- Hill played for the Los Angeles Stars, Miami Floridians, Dallas Chaparrals, San Diego Conquistadors, and San Antonio Spurs in his five-year ABA career. In the 1972-73 season, while with San Diego, Hill shot 39.1 % from three-point range. The percentage was the best in the entire ABA that season.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- card, basketball
- date made
- 1973
- copyright date
- 1971
- 1970
- depicted
- Hill, Simmie
- publisher
- Topps Chewing Gum
- NBA Properties, Inc.
- maker
- NBA Properties, Inc.
- Topps Chewing Gum
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 8.89 cm x 6.35 cm
- ID Number
- 1982.0568.020
- accession number
- 1982.0568
- catalog number
- 1982.0568.020
- subject
- Basketball
- Professional
- Sports
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Sport and Leisure
- Basketball Cards
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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