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This listing is for a Professionally Graded WILLIS HUDLIN 1933 Goudey Gum SIGNED #96 PSA/DNA AUTO CLEVELAND INDIANS Prewar. Card looks to be in GD to VG condition, with a very light verticle surface wrinkle at top left. The Signature looks great. A very nice specimen from the 1933 Goudey Big League Chewing Gum card set, one of the most widely collected sets of all time.  Please scroll down for more about Goudey chewing gum baseball cards and the player.

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About the Set:
The 1933 Goudey (R319) set was produced by the Goudey Gum Company of Boston, MA and used to market tins/packs of chewing gum.  The detailed artwork and vivid colors used to manufacture the cards are what make them a favorite among vintage collectors today.  1933 Goudey comprises of a 240 card set, each card measuring 2 3/8” x 2 7/8”.  Key cards include Babe Ruth, who has four different cards in the set (53, 144, 149 & 181), Jimmy Foxx, Carl Hubell, Lefty Grove, Rogers Hornsby, Mel Ott, and many other legendary Hall of Famers.  There is also a a very rare short-printed Nap Lajoie card (#106), which was not included in the regular print run of the set and is widely believed to have been intentionally left out in order to make it harder for collectors to finish the set.

from Wikipedia:

Goudey

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The Goudey Gum Company was an American chewing gum company started in 1919. The company was founded by Enos Gordon Goudey (1863–1946) of Barrington Passage, Nova Scotia. Formerly an employee of Beemans, he opened a factory in Boston, Massachusetts in 1919 and later in Allston. It operated there from 1924 until it closed in 1962. Goudey sold the business in 1932 but he retained an interest as a consultant. On his retirement in 1933, William Wrigley Jr. dubbed him the "penny gum king of America". Today the Goudey name is mainly associated with its collectible baseball cards which were introduced in 1933. Goudey was the first American company to issue baseball cards with each stick of gum. (They had been available with cigarettes and certain lines of candy for many years.)[1][2]

Goudey baseball cards

Most of the unreleased cards, printing plates, and company archives were thrown away in the 1960s, although some were sold to collectors. Today, cards in good condition command a premium, especially those authenticated and graded by respected third-party graders. Hank Greenberg and Lou Gehrig are prominently featured in the Goudey cards of the 1930s, colorful cards with hand drawn portraits of the players. Other baseball hall of fame and interesting players depicted on Goudey gum cards from 1933 to 1941 include: Ty Cobb, Jimmie Foxx, Bill Dickey, Carl Hubbell, Lefty Grove, Dizzy Dean, Mickey Cochrane, Charlie Gehringer, Tony Lazzeri, Mel Ott, Joe Dimaggio, Hank Greenberg, "Ducky" Joe Medwick and Moe Berg.

1933 set

In 1933, Goudey produced a 240 card set, also called "Big League Chewing Gum". These cards, issued with bubble gum in each pack, were the first baseball gum cards. The 1933 Goudey set is considered one of the "Big Three" classic baseball card sets, along with the T206 and 1952 Topps sets.

One of the rarest baseball cards from a mainstream set is card #106 from the 1933 Goudey set. It was not originally issued with the set, so collectors could not complete the set from packs. In 1934, Goudey issued card #106 for the 1933 set with retired player [Napoleon Lajoie]. Collectors that sent letters to the Goudey Gum Company complaining about the lack of a #106 card received it in the mail. The 1933 Goudey #106 Napoleon Lajoie is known as one of the "Big Three" baseball cards along with two cards from the T206 set depicting Honus Wagner and Eddie Plank.

1934 set

In 1934, Goudey produced a 96 card set that was endorsed by two players, Lou Gehrig and Chuck Klein. The 1934 Goudey set is sometimes called the "Lou Gehrig" set. Interestingly, there are no Babe Ruth cards in the set. The Hank Greenberg rookie card is in this set.

1938 set

In 1938, Goudey produced a 48 card set, also known as the "Heads-Up" set. The cards were numbered from 241 to 288, thus looking like Goudey was trying to extend the 1933 Goudey set. The first 24 cards in the set depicts pictures of players heads attached to a cartoonish body in baseball action. The next 24 cards in the set depicts the same players and the same poses. The difference is the next 24 cards include small cartoonish characters playing baseball along with captions. Joe Dimaggio, Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg and Bob Feller are the big stars in this set.

Canadian Goudey

Similar cards as the 1933 and 1934 Goudey sets were also released in Canada by the Goudey-owned World Wide Gum Co, of Granby, Quebec. They are sometimes known as Canadian Goudey sets. There were 94 and 96 cards in these sets, respectively. The 1933 World Wide Gum set was released with two different backs, one with both French and English, and the other with only English. There has not been definitive proof, but one theory is that the French-English backs were sold in Quebec and the English-only backs were sold in Ontario.

List of Goudey baseball card sets

Year of issuance, popular name and designation from The American Card Catalog:
1933 Goudey R319
1933 American R338
1933 World Wide Gum V353
1934 Goudey R320
1934 Goudey Premiums R390-1
1934 World Wide Gum V354
1935 Goudey 4-in-1 R321
1935 Goudey Premiums R390-2
1936 Goudey Wide Pens R314
1936 Goudey R322
1936 World Wide Gum V355
1938 Goudey "Heads-Up" R323
1939 Goudey Premiums R303
1939 World Wide Gum V351
1941 Goudey R324

List of Goudey non-sport sets

Year(s), name, quantity and dimensions.
1933 Boy Scouts (48) Size: 2? × 3¼ in.
1933 Sea Raiders (48) Size: 2? × 2? in.
1933 World War Gum (96X 2? in.
1933-40 Indian Gum (216) Size: 2? × 2? in.
1934 Big Thrill Booklets (24) Size: 2-5/16 × 2? in.
1935 Majik Fold Pictures (9) Size: 5½ × 10¼ in.
1935 The Goudey Line R.R. 12 × 5 × 5 in.
1936 Auto License Plates (36) Size: 1½ × 3¼ in.
1936 History Of Aviation (10) Size: 5½" square
1937 Auto License Plates (69) Size: 1½ × 3¼ in.
1938 Auto License Plates (66) Size: 1½ × 3¼ in.
1938-39 Action Gum (96) Size: 2? × 2? inches
1939 Auto License Plates (30) Size: 1½ × 3¼ in.
1940 First Column Defenders (24) Size: 2½ × 3? in.
1941 Sky Birds (24) Size: 2-5/16 × 2? in.
1947-48 Indian Gum (96) Size: 2? × 2? in.
Jungle Gum (48) Size: 2? × 2? in.
Our Gang Gum Puzzles (25) Size: 3-11/16 × 5? in.
Rainbow Radio Rascals (6) Size: 4? × 5½ in.
Soldier Boys (24) Size: 2? × 2? in.

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Willis Hudlin

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Willis Hudlin
Pitcher
Born: May 23, 1906
Wagoner, Oklahoma, U.S.
Died: August 5, 2002 (aged 96)
Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
MLB debut
August 15, 1926, for the Cleveland Indians
Last MLB appearance
August 31, 1944, for the St. Louis Browns
MLB statistics
Win–loss record 158–156
Earned run average 4.41
Strikeouts 677
Stats at Baseball Reference Edit this at Wikidata
Teams
  • Cleveland Indians (1926–1940)
  • Washington Senators (1940)
  • New York Giants (1940)
  • St. Louis Browns (1940, 1944)

George Willis Hudlin (May 23, 1906 – August 5, 2002) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher for, most notably, the Cleveland Indians from 1926 to 1940. Hudlin did not pitch more than 10 games with any other team, although he played with three others.

In 1940, Hudlin became one of the few players to compete on four different major league teams in the same year (Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators, New York Giants, and the St. Louis Browns).

Hudlin's career statistics include a 158–156 record, with a 4.41 ERA. He had 677 strikeouts in 26131/3 career innings pitched.

Hudlin was the pitcher who gave up Babe Ruth's 500th home run.

Hudlin was a good hitting pitcher in his career, recording a .201 batting average (180-for-894) with 76 runs, 5 home runs, 69 RBI and 52 bases on balls.

Hudlin's pitch selection included a well-known sinker, a fastball, curveball and a changeup. He occasionally threw sidearm or with an underhand "dip of the wrist", though he threw overhand most often.[1]

After Hudlin finished playing in the majors, he was a manager for the minor league Little Rock Travelers and pitching coach for the Detroit Tigers under skippers Jack Tighe, Bill Norman and Jimmy Dykes (1957–59).

Hudlin later became a scout for the New York Yankees, for whom he even scouted his own son, James, who was given a contract to play professionally, but was drafted to serve in the Vietnam War. James Hudlin's pitch selection was a knuckleball, slider, curveball, and sinker, as well as a two-seam fastball which topped out at 102 mph (164 km/h).

Willis Hudlin was a member of the Army Air Forces during World War II as a flight instructor.[2][3] He died in Little Rock, Arkansas, at the age of 96, and was interred in Hazelhurst Cemetery, Hazelhursrt, Copiah County, Mississippi.

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