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Posted By: David Smith

Just think of all the 10 year-old boys in 1933, listening to baseball on the radio and pestering their parents for money to buy Goudey gum and the cards that came im the wrappers. Then, just 8 or 9 years later, those same boys going overseas and getting killed.

How many Goudeys and Diamond Stars are still around because of grieving parents saving their sons' cards as a way to remember them??

I have thought about this a few times because an old time collector once told me he thought a great many cards were lost do to the paper drives. I thought a lot were probably saved because of the memories the cards provided.