This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/12/2024
After making a quartet of appearances in the inaugural Goudey series, Babe Ruth was suddenly excluded from the follow-up collection, leaving "The Iron Horse" Lou Gehrig with a new responsibility of carrying the torch for the chewing gum youth of America. Offered is the iconic low-number pasteboard of the new leader of the New York Yankees in all of its glory. Like the "yellow Ruth" of the previous year, this issue has a bright yellow backdrop that is prone to attracting stray print and other noticeable blemishes, but the featured piece has brought that problem to a bare minimum. The well-centered image, highlighted by pure white borders, extends out to four wonderfully fresh corners that push the boundaries of NM/MT status. The intensely radiant canary yellow, in perfect harmony with royal blue at the bottom in the “Lou Gehrig Says” portion of the card, is about as eye-grabbing as any enthusiast can desire, and the reverse is every bit as clean and bright as you'd expect for such a lofty, if not slightly conservative, assessment. A stellar example of the perhaps the key card in the 1934 Goudey series.