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Posted By: <b>mcavoy</b><p>Probably not what you're looking for, but I stumbled across this history site during an unrelated search a month back. I found it fascinating, considering Goudey showed the way baseball cards would be marketed to the public for the following 50 years, or so. I especially enjoyed the promotional letter emphasizing the quality of their gum product; one, as a huge fan of Topps baseball card gum, the quality of that product was as good as the quality control of their printer; and two, I am reminded of my trip to India where everything was "top quality, buy now"<br /><br /><a href="http://www.goudey.org/Goudey/Goudey_Gum.html" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://www.goudey.org/Goudey/Goudey_Gum.html</a><br /><br />Best regards

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Posted By: <b>Ted Zanidakis</b><p>The 1933 Goudey set consists of 239 cards which were printed on<br />10 sheets (24-cards per sheet) and issued in several series.<br />Lew Lipset illustrates this in his great article in the 1982<br />Beckett Price Guide (Issue 4, pages 128-131). On the backs of<br />these cards it was advertised as a 240 card set; however, card<br />#106 (Napoleon LaJoie) was never issued that year. Instead, this card<br />was available later in 1934 when that year's Goudey Hi# series<br />was issued.<br />The 10th sheet of the 1933 set is very interesting. It came out<br />very late in that year. It is referred to as the World Series<br />sheet as it contains 12 cards from the NY Giants and 12 cards<br />from the Washington Senators (the two teams that faced each<br />other in the 1933 World Series). The backs of these cards reflect this.<br /><br />More, interesting, though, are cards #107 - 114 and cards 121 -<br />127, which were printed on this last sheet. So you can imagine<br />earlier that year how kids kept buying Goudey packs trying to<br />acquire these missing numbered cards. It sure was a very effective<br /> marketing ploy by the Goudey Gum Co.<br /><br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>dan mckee</b><p>If you email me, I can give you my father's phone number. He collected these out of packs as a kid and would be more than happy to talk to your father. Dan