Artwork exclusive to 1935 Goudey (4 in 1 set)

[thatkidfromjerrymaguire]

I'm an admitted fan of the 1935 Goudey (4 in 1) set. However, I know there are some obvious reasons it is a less popular set (smaller, four images on one card, no Gehrig, etc.). And I know a big complaint is that MOST of the images are reused from the more popular 1933 and 1934 Goudey sets. Such as the Babe Ruth card re-using the 1933 card 181 image.

However, I was curious that if MOST of the images are reused, that means SOME of the images must be unique to the 1935 set. So I did some exhaustive research (and by that I mean I just searched images for every player in the 1935 set) and came up with the list.

It turns out that there are ELEVEN players that have artwork exclusive to 1935 Goudey. I'm only counting players where the artwork is completely unique...there are numerous instances where there were some background color changes, logo changes, etc. but you could tell the same basic image was used in 1933 or 1934. I'm NOT counting those.

So you heard it here first...these eleven images can ONLY be found in 1935 Goudey...so NOW maybe the set will gain a little more respect

Here is the list of names:

Cy Blanton
Zeke Bonura
Gilly Campbell
Ivan Goodman
Rollie Hemsley
Clarence Bubber Jonnard (and from what I could find, this 1935 Goudey is the ONLY baseball card that Clarence ever appeared on)
Alex Kampouris
Bill Knickerbocker
Billy Meyers
Tommy Padden
"Schoolboy" Rowe

Here is a collage of all these distinguished portraits:

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Interesting fact, FOUR of those players are actually on ONE of the 4 in 1 cards....Campbell, Meyers, Goodman, Kampouris. Due to this insight, I now expect this card to SKYROCKET in value (although, I hope it doesn't, because I don't own it yet )

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So there we go. Useless trivia to be sure...but it was fun to track this down. Hopefully someone else will find this enjoyable.

Happy collecting everyone!

John