[StraightRaceCards]

Currently reading the “Spoke” biography on Tris Speaker. Highly recommend, lots of great season by season detail

While reading I stumbled across a player who has a card in the ‘33 Goudey set, Ted Lyons. Looked him up and realized that he is my alma mater’s (Baylor University) only HOF player and a prewar one at that. So cool!

What really made me chuckle was reading his SABR bio.. he lettered in baseball and track making him a Baylor track alum like myself!

https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/ted-lyons/

I don’t know the ‘33 Goudey set well- are there many cards that talk about the player’s college background? I thought it was pretty cool to see Baylor mentioned on the back of the card…

And a card for reference from the eBay auction I missed out on last night…I need to get a Lyons one of these days!