1933 Goudey Baseball Card - #71 - Robert J. Burke, Washington Senators

Description: 1933 Goudey Baseball #71 - Robert J. Burke, Washington Senators - SGC 1.5On the Player- Robert James Burke (1907-1971) was a pitcher for the Washington Senators (1927-1935) and the Philadelphia Phillies (1937). Coming from a family of six children, Robert was the third son and youngest child of the family. Burke was signed by the Chicago White Sox after he completed high school. Later, he was selected by the Washington Senators in the Rule 5 draft. When he arrived in the Major Leagues, Burke was a baby-faced 20-year-old, who stood 6 feet tall, and weighed just 138 pounds. In his 10 MLB seasons, Burke produced a 38-46 win–loss record, with a 4.28 ERA. Burke did help the Senators win the 1933 American League Pennant. A career highlight was his 1931 no-hit complete game against the Boston Red Sox, winning 5–0 at Griffith Stadium. It was the last no-hitter by a Washington-area MLB team for over 80 years, until Jordan Zimmermann achieved that feat on September 28, 2014. Set Information - 1933 Goudey Baseball Cards (R319) - In 1919, the Goudey Gum Company, founded by Enos Gordon Goudey, opened its first factory in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1933, Goudey pioneered a new advertising vehicle for selling gum, including baseball cards with each stick of gum. Cards had earlier been available with cigarettes and tobacco products, and with certain lines of candy. But baseball cards had not been available with gum, and not for an affordable price to all children, one penny for a stick of gum and a card. The 1933 Goudey “Big League Chewing Gum” set includes 240 cards (or 239, depending on your treatment of the Lajoie card, #106). The card dimensions are 2 3/8” by 2 7/8”. The 1933 Goudey set is considered by many as one of the “Big Three” classic baseball card sets, along with the 1909-1911 T206 tobacco set, and the 1952 Topps set.

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