1933 Goudey Gum Co. Baseball

[FrankWakefield]

Ted,

THANK YOU for that sheet #10 information, about Washington and the Giants. I don't have all of those cards, but I do have several of them. I hope to dig them out read the backs, to see if they reference any information that couldn't have been known before the season started.

Has this been common knowledge and I've had my head in the sand? This is the first I've heard of it. You're a walking encyclopedia!

[Big Ben]

I don’t post on here much, but the Goudey cards are my favorite to collect. Here’s is something I picked up on the BST a few years ago.

[GeoPoto]

The back of Cronin's #109 contains results from the 1933 season, including the World Series. I think #63 is a great image!

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[Bill77]

Just a few of mine, ok most of mine.

[Seven]

Seeing all these Goudey's makes me want to pick up a few from the 1933 set. Some beautiful cards, gentlemen!

[Exhibitman]

[GeoPoto]

Few thoughts regarding this hall-of-famer:

< He was 27 before he played his first full season in MLB.

< Some time in his mid-twenties, acquired the nickname "Sam". Nobody knows how.

< Oblivious (as was everyone at the time) to the "magic significance" that would eventually be attached to "HoF milestones", he retired in 1934 thirteen hits shy of 3,000. His batting average in 1934 was .293.

< Finally, here is a guy who at age 21 lost his wife, two daughters, two sisters, and both parents in a tornado, yet is pictured here near the end of his hall of fame career, in front of a cloudless bright blue sky. At the time, nobody in the public knew anything about how the tragic tornado affected Sam's family!

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[ValKehl]

George, I'm lovin' your gorgeous 1933 Goudey of Sam Rice! Here's a few more tidbits about Sam:

< He missed all but 7 games in 1918, which would have been his second "full year" (600+ plate appearances), due to being drafted into the military for WW1. Hence, his second full year was in 1919 at age 29!

< His last "full year" was 1930 at age 40, in which Sam had 207 base hits and batted .349, the second highest average of his career (he hit .350 in 1925).

< Rice had 19 World Series hits, which puts him at 3,006 total hits for his MLB career.

[tedzan]

1934 GOUDEY High #'s sheet (cards #73 - 96), which includes the "1933 GOUDEY" Lajoie card.





TED Z

T206 Reference
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[Trublubrucru]

Here is my six pack of '33s I acquired over my collecting life. The Jimmy Foxx and Mickey Cochrane were obtained in actual card swaps with neighborhood card collecting pals in 1981-82. That's when a trade was a trade

[brianp-beme]

The 1933 Goudey Lajoie card took the place on this sheet that was otherwise occupied by the 1934 #82 Bill Hallahan card. So in theory this Hallahan card should have an infinitesimally smaller card population than the rest of the high numbers, since this Lajoie sheet was most likely only printed in very limited quantities.

The PSA and SGC population reports both show the availability of the Hallahan card being in the average range for the high numbers, so there goes my infinitesimal thought.

Brian

Originally Posted by tedzan

1934 GOUDEY High #'s sheet (cards #73 - 96), which includes the "1933 GOUDEY" Lajoie card.





TED Z

T206 Reference
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[tedzan]

Originally Posted by FrankWakefield

Ted,

THANK YOU for that sheet #10 information, about Washington and the Giants. I don't have all of those cards, but I do have several of them. I hope to dig them out read the backs, to see if they reference any information that couldn't have been known before the season started.

Has this been common knowledge and I've had my head in the sand? This is the first I've heard of it. You're a walking encyclopedia!

Hi Frank

I really appreciate your kind words.


Now, here is real 24-card GOUDEY sheet. But, with only 23 subjects. The #144 Babe Ruth card is double-printed on it.






TED Z

T206 Reference
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[trdcrdkid]

Originally Posted by FrankWakefield

Ted,

THANK YOU for that sheet #10 information, about Washington and the Giants. I don't have all of those cards, but I do have several of them. I hope to dig them out read the backs, to see if they reference any information that couldn't have been known before the season started.

Has this been common knowledge and I've had my head in the sand? This is the first I've heard of it. You're a walking encyclopedia!

It's been known in the hobby since the 1970s, after some uncut sheets were found and people figured out the order in which the cards were issued. It helped that there were still people in the organized hobby who remembered collecting 1933 Goudey as kids.

Here is a very thorough explanation by Jason Schwarts of the 10 sheets in the set:

https://sabrbaseballcards.blog/2020/...udey-part-one/

Here are Elwood Scharf's memories of collecting 1933 Goudey as a kid, from the November 1970 Ballcard Collector:

https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=219310