R319 Goudey 1933

1933 · Goudey Gum Company (Boston, MA)

240-card R319 set — the first major baseball card release packaged with bubble gum. Four Babe Ruths and the mail-in Nap Lajoie #106.

Key Facts

Release: 1933
Manufacturer: Goudey Gum Company (Boston, MA)
Distribution: Sold for one cent with a slab of bubble gum; first major modern gum-card issue
Card stock: Color cardstock with player painting on front, biography on back, approximately 2⅜″ × 2⅞″
Printer / Designer: Unknown commercial illustrators; portraits adapted from press photography
Series: 240 numbered subjects plus the famous #106 Lajoie callback card
Total cards: 241

Babe Ruth (#53)
The yellow-background Ruth — most iconic of Goudey's four Babe Ruth cards in the set.
Lou Gehrig (#92)
Gehrig in his MVP-season prime — one of the hobby's classic 1930s cards.
Nap Lajoie (#106)
The legendary 'callback card' — not printed until 1934, sent to collectors who'd written Goudey complaining the set was missing #106.
Jimmie Foxx (#29)
Double X coming off his first MVP and Triple Crown season.
Rogers Hornsby (#119)
The Rajah as a Browns player-manager near the end of his playing days.
Carl Hubbell (#230)
King Carl in his 1933 NL MVP season — issued just as he led the Giants to the World Series title.
Dizzy Dean (#223)
Dean's early-career card, a year before his 30-win Gas House Gang campaign.
Mickey Cochrane (#76)
Black Mike behind the plate for Connie Mack — would win his second MVP a year later in Detroit.
Lefty Grove (#220)
Grove during his back-to-back MVP-window years with the A's.
Chuck Klein (#128)
Reigning NL Triple Crown winner — Klein hit .368 with 28 HR in 1933.
Mel Ott (#127)
Master Melvin in his prime, anchoring Hubbell's NL-pennant Giants.
Al Simmons (#35)
Bucketfoot Al on the White Sox after his deal from Philadelphia — two-time AL batting champ.