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Originally Posted by the 'stache
I saw something quite poignant on the back of the Gehrig 1934 Goudey card I want to buy at some point this spring, #37.
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Here's another one for you... this comic book featurette on Lou Gehrig includes a blurb stating that "'Tarzan' as he is called by his team mates, is baseball's highest paid star and now having crashed the movies - will be quite a wealthy man,
when he retires."
As it happens, this page was published as the inside back cover of a pretty important comic book... Action Comics #1, the very first appearance of Superman. But in the context of this discussion, the important thing is when the book was published - 1938, just a year before he had to step down.