1933 Goudey Babe Ruth #149 SGC 4.5 VGEX+

Except for tobacco cards and Allen and Ginter issues, baseball card quality suffered from inaccurate images, blank backs, and lackluster designs in the early 1900s. Confident he could raise the bar, Enos Goudey, who had started the Goudey Gum Company in Boston in 1919, decided to join the baseball card manufacturing scene in 1933. He produced an inaugural 240-card set that revolutionized the industry. The cards included high-quality artist renditions of players, eye-pleasing color splashes, and engaging bios that connected fans to players they often had only read about in newspapers. Arguably the most popular athlete in America at the time, Babe Ruth appears four times in the 1933 Goudey set. And while those four issues are not the rarest cards from the Colossus of Clout’s catalog, they are four of the most famous. Card #149 displays the same lithograph as card #53 in front of a red background. Each of the four '33 Goudey Ruth issues draws plenty of attention when it hits the market, and this red version in an SGC 4.5 holder is no different. Learn more about the Babe’s cards in our Guide to Babe Ruth Baseball Cards: https://www.fanaticscollect.com/definitive-guides/a-guide-to-babe-ruths-baseball-cards The certification number on this card has been checked against the third-party grader's online database and is active as of 06/08/25.