Goodey Baseball Card collection
Scope and Contents
A collection of baseball cards published by the Goodey Gum Company, between 1933 and 1938. The cards include R319, R314 Wide Pens, R320, R321, R326 Baseball Movies flipbooks, and R322. They are not complete sets.
Dates
- 1933-1938
Creator
- Goodey Gum Company (1919-1962) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restrictions but viewing materials does require an appointment. Please contact the Giamatti Research Center, research@baseballhall.org, 607-547-0330.
Conditions Governing Use
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum provides use copies of materials to facilitate private study, scholarship, and research. The Museum welcomes you to use materials in our collections that are in the public domain and to make fair use of copyrighted materials as defined by copyright law and with proper citation. Permission to publish materials must be obtained from: Giamatti Research Center, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, 25 Main St., Cooperstown, NY 13326 Phone: 607.547.0330 E-mail: research@baseballhall.org
Biographical / Historical
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).
Extent
1 Volumes (in one 3D ring binder)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
A collection of baseball cards published by the Goodey Gum Company. These date between 1933-1938.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in chronological order.
Physical Location
Manuscript Archives, Aisle 16, Bay e, Shelf 6
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift
Appraisal
No cards were removed during accessioning or processing.
Accruals
Cards will be added as they are received.
Processing Information
Cards were placed in acid-free sleeves and in a 3D ring binder.
Creator
- Goodey Gum Company (1919-1962) (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Goodey Baseball Card collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Claudette Scrafford, Manager, Manuscript Archive; Ashley Sprague, volunteer
- Date
- September 2025
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Archives Repository