1933 Goudey and 1952 Topps – SABR’s Baseball Cards Research Committee

A associated query that I’ve not seen answered, therefore will achieve this right here, is which topics seem in each 1933 Goudey and 1952 Topps. Right here it seems the quantity is bigger than 4, although the variability is lower than what’s seen between T206 and Goudey. (Advance the slideshow to see the reply.)

Earlier than going an excessive amount of additional I ought to word that the reply above might depend upon how one defines “seem” as one of many topics above has a 1952 Topps card that exhibits another person. I’ll additionally word that all the six topics above crack the 1952 Topps guidelines as coaches (Chapman, Dickey, Herman, Crosetti) or managers (Durocher, Richards). In different phrases, there isn’t any “Jack Quinn” within the bunch, although there might have been.

Per Baseball-Reference, two gamers had been lively main leaguers in 1933 and 1952:

• Dutch Leonard
• Satchel Paige

Leonard made the Topps guidelines however not the Goudey whereas Paige missed out on each, or extra precisely each missed out on him! We’d additionally supply a shout-out to Bobo Newson who performed from 1929 to 1953 minus 1931, 1933, and 1949-51 whereas showing in neither set.

Readers may additionally assign “virtually” standing to an entire cadre of 1933 Goudey gamers who coached or managed in 1952 however didn’t earn playing cards. It is a record I’d like to see however not fairly sufficient to compile it myself. Reasonably, I’ll go a distinct route and assign my private silver medal as follows:

And sure, I’m fairly conscious each units have playing cards of Sam Jones (completely different gamers in fact), however I nonetheless like this one higher!