.

[Archive]

Posted By: .

.

[Archive]

Posted By: mcavoy

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"

http://www.goudey.org/Goudey/Goudey_Gum.html

Best regards

[Archive]

Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

The 1933 Goudey set consists of 239 cards which were printed on
10 sheets (24-cards per sheet) and issued in several series.
Lew Lipset illustrates this in his great article in the 1982
Beckett Price Guide (Issue 4, pages 128-131). On the backs of
these cards it was advertised as a 240 card set; however, card
#106 (Napoleon LaJoie) was never issued that year. Instead, this card
was available later in 1934 when that year's Goudey Hi# series
was issued.
The 10th sheet of the 1933 set is very interesting. It came out
very late in that year. It is referred to as the World Series
sheet as it contains 12 cards from the NY Giants and 12 cards
from the Washington Senators (the two teams that faced each
other in the 1933 World Series). The backs of these cards reflect this.

More, interesting, though, are cards #107 - 114 and cards 121 -
127, which were printed on this last sheet. So you can imagine
earlier that year how kids kept buying Goudey packs trying to
acquire these missing numbered cards. It sure was a very effective
marketing ploy by the Goudey Gum Co.

[Archive]

Posted By: dan mckee

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