What was the deal with Lou Gehrig and Goudey?
 

He was certainly prominent in the 1934 set with his face and quote plastered on almost every card, until the high numbers when Chuck Klein also showed up in the same spot. It seemed like Gehrig and Goudey were really tight that year.

After that Gehrig is almost nowhere to be found in Goudey product (except for the 1936 Canadian World Wide Gum set) despite the fact that he played heavily until 1938.

Was Gehrig a holdout due to money? He always had the reputation of being the generous sweet guy. maybe he was a lot more money hungry than people made him out to be.

Goudey
 

A lot more expertise in this area on Pre War, but some of them do slum here once in awhile :)

He was the Iron Horse