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Originally Posted by FrankWakefield
Ted,
THANK YOU for that sheet #10 information, about Washington and the Giants. I don't have all of those cards, but I do have several of them. I hope to dig them out read the backs, to see if they reference any information that couldn't have been known before the season started.
Has this been common knowledge and I've had my head in the sand? This is the first I've heard of it. You're a walking encyclopedia!
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It's been known in the hobby since the 1970s, after some uncut sheets were found and people figured out the order in which the cards were issued. It helped that there were still people in the organized hobby who remembered collecting 1933 Goudey as kids.
Here is a very thorough explanation by Jason Schwarts of the 10 sheets in the set:
https://sabrbaseballcards.blog/2020/...udey-part-one/
Here are Elwood Scharf's memories of collecting 1933 Goudey as a kid, from the November 1970 Ballcard Collector:
https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=219310