World Wide Gum Vs. Goudey

[ruth-gehrig]

Still hope to be able to get this WWG back some day

[packs]

Here's my Babe:

[cgjackson222]

I feel like WWG 1934 Ruths and other cards are a relative bargain compared to their 1933 Goudey counterparts given than they are rarer and tend to sell for significantly less.

There is a nice write up on the history of Goudey and World Wide Gum cards on the blog Pre-War Cards by the way: https://prewarcards.com/2018/12/24/g...th-1930s-1933/

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by ruth-gehrig

Still hope to be able to get this WWG back some day

looks a lot like the 7 we sold last year.

[JimC]

Some us us were commenting recently that the colors on the 34 WW Gum Ruth seem brighter than on the 33 Goudey 53. I know the paper stock is different. Has anyone else noticed the color difference or explained it?

[Spike]

My impression's that sports agent Christy Walsh (who represented Lou, Babe, and many others) wanted Gehrig and Chuck Klein as his on-card stars for 1934 Goudey. Walsh might've asked for too much money for Ruth to appear on American cards, so Goudey left him off their domestic 1934 Big League Gum. World Wide Gum, on the other hand, used Ruth in 1933 and 34, so either had a more affordable license or Canadian law gave them more latitude to reuse the Babe's image. This image shows a 1933 WWG sheet with three Ruths, so they took full advantage of what they had! I also wrote about the relationship between Goudey & WWG a few years ago: https://www.number5typecollection.co...an-goudey.html

[robw1959]

My goodness! That right-most vertical strip is so amazing with two Ruths, a Gehrig, and Jimmy Foxx.