Why was card #106 in 1933 Goudey Lajoie?

[jason.1969]

Originally Posted by tedzan

Mike



Of course, Lajoie printed in the same quantities as the 1934 GOUDEY High #'s (73-96).



However, the Lajoie card was never included in the 1934 GOUDEY packs. The GOUDEY Co. held them, then

dispersed them upon requests from collectors.



So, somewhere there may be stacks and stacks of #106 Lajoie cards which have never seen the light of day.













TED Z



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This would actually surprise me very much. I would sooner expect the high series to have principally been on sheets of 24 with the 5x5 layout the exception rather than the rule.

Can you even imagine printing 200,000+ of the 5x5 sheets, only to have to pull the Lajoie 200,000+ times to put in a different pile? This would be a major amount of work!

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[tedzan]

Let's play the numbers game.....here are some samples from the Hi # series to consider...………

PSA + SGC pop report data:

126.....LaJoie

255.....Cuyler

228.....Camilli

227.....DeShong

208.....Derringer

203.....Mooney

197.....Trosky

196.....Darrow

194.....Werber

185.....Vosmik


These numbers indicate that a fair number of Lajoie cards were mailed out to collectors with respect to cards
collectors pulled from wax-packs.


TED Z

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[tedzan]

Originally Posted by jason.1969

This would actually surprise me very much. I would sooner expect the high series to have principally been on sheets of 24 with the 5x5 layout the exception rather than the rule.

Can you even imagine printing 200,000+ of the 5x5 sheets, only to have to pull the Lajoie 200,000+ times to put in a different pile? This would be a major amount of work!

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Hi Jason


I originally considered what you are suggesting; so, I don't really differ with you. However, given the fact that all 10 sheets in the 1933 GOUDEY set exist.
And, 4 sheets of the 1934 GOUDEY set exist. I have given up any thoughts of a 5th sheet of which just 24 Hi #s were printed, since it has never surfaced.

I have collected uncut sheets of various sets [GOUDEY's, PLAY BALL's, W514, W560, BOWMAN's (BB & FB 1948-1952), TOPP's (1952-1984), FLEER's (1959
to 1961), etc., etc.] since the 1970's....so, I would have come across such a 24-card Hi # sheet if it was printed.


I cannot find my photos of the first two sheets, but here are the last two printed sheets of the set.

3rd sheet (#49 - 72)






Hi #s series (#73 - 96 + Lajoie)




TED Z

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[jason.1969]

If we've more or less exhausted the original Lajoie question, another "mystery" of the 1934 Goudey set is why there was no Babe Ruth.

I collected various theories in a longer post. Feel free to read/comment, or skip my post and just posit your own theory right here.

https://jasoncards.wordpress.com/201...ing-babe-ruth/