View Full Version : NEW Find solves old gum wrapper mystery
danmckee
05-05-2012, 06:27 AM
There has been a generic Goudey gum wrapper that no one really knew what it belonged to. Some thought it contained the knot hole gang generic cards that look like inserts.
I always thought it was the original 1st run of the 1938 Goudey Heads Up cards since the wrapper favored the 1938 Goudey Heads up wrapper with the figures surrounding it.
My reasoning was that the 1938 Goudey set was issued as a continuation to the 1933 Goudey set (assumed by the numbering of the 38 series), and that the generic wrapper had similarities to the actual Heads Up wrapper.
Well, I was close! But no cigar!
The generic wrapper turns out to be a 1938 wrapper, but..
It belongs to the 1938 Big League Goudey Movies booklets.
Mystery solved! Thanks to a recent find.
Dan
http://www.baseballwrappers.com/gallery.php?year=1938&manufacturer=&subset=&type=&submit.x=70&submit.y=16
Exhibitman
05-05-2012, 06:41 AM
That is way cool...wish I could stumble across a find like that.
danmckee
05-05-2012, 07:17 AM
That is way cool...wish I could stumble across a find like that.
Man you are up early Adam! And you work too hard to be snooping around every where for stuff. I am a COBOL programmer, a soon to be extinct animal.
john.clowes
05-05-2012, 07:33 AM
Dan, if it's any comfort to you, I took my first real job in 1983 as a COBOL programmer and was told then that I was crazy to do so because the language would be obsoleted in two years. Nearly 30 years later, here we are with it still in use.....
Kinda like when I moved out of my parents house back then and Mom suggested that I toss my old ball cards since they were old.
Clutch-Hitter
05-05-2012, 07:44 AM
Nice find Dan
danmckee
05-05-2012, 07:46 AM
Dan, if it's any comfort to you, I took my first real job in 1983 as a COBOL programmer and was told then that I was crazy to do so because the language would be obsoleted in two years. Nearly 30 years later, here we are with it still in use.....
Kinda like when I moved out of my parents house back then and Mom suggested that I toss my old ball cards since they were old.
Well put!
I actually am doing XML coming in from the net to the mainframe, neat stuff.
Using CICS Web Service and COBOL now actually has XML PARSE and GENERATE commands.
Dan
jcmtiger
05-05-2012, 09:01 AM
You guys crack me up. I started with punch cards, sorters, printers in 1960, after that cobol programmer and left after being a DataBase Administrater about 16 years ago.
Joe
Runscott
05-05-2012, 09:21 AM
Man you are up early Adam! And you work too hard to be snooping around every where for stuff. I am a COBOL programmer, a soon to be extinct animal.
Haha. I WAS a COBOL programmer - for about ten years - now I am also extinct as of May 31.
Congrats on that wrapper mystery solving!
wrapperguy
05-05-2012, 10:23 AM
Dan,
That is awesome. Amazing that these still exist. You must tell us the history of the find sometime.
4815162342
05-05-2012, 03:09 PM
I've been told that one of our legacy systems was previously developed in COBOL running on a Wang system. I couldn't imagine developing software in that environment! :)
Exhibitman
05-05-2012, 04:20 PM
Insomnia. 5:41 is late for me.
danmckee
05-05-2012, 07:03 PM
God Bless you Adam, seems like a side affect from years of pain killers :)
slidekellyslide
05-05-2012, 07:10 PM
McKee shows off an incredible discovery and you guys want to talk about computer programming. :D
TELL US ABOUT THAT DISCOVERY MR McKEE!!!
danmckee
05-06-2012, 08:58 AM
McKee shows off an incredible discovery and you guys want to talk about computer programming. :D
TELL US ABOUT THAT DISCOVERY MR McKEE!!!
This is a very good point!
Actually, kind of uneventfull, I was turned on to the family by a 3rd party. The family is in the MidWest. The collection was very interesting, mostly non sports. 1 1920s strip card, the bulk of the collection was 1935 thru 1941, a 1950 Yogi Berra, 2 1967 Topps cards and a load of 1991 cards which I told them to give out to the neighborhood kids.
The 1938 movie booklets with wrappers were the neatest
a complete set of 1941 Uncle San
Some non sports strip sets
Gmen, horrors of war cards
1961 Essex Meats hoops cards
Some other odds and ends
Not the motherlode but a neat discovery due to the movie booklets with warppers
Dan