This classic pose of the Iron Horse first appeared on black-and-white cards of the 1920s and picks up bright colors for Canada's 1933 World Wide Gum set, who licensed Goudey's own Big League Gum design. Gehrig shows great presentation for its technical grade SGC PR 1, with nice centering, print registration, and every word readable, front and back. Corner rounding, surface toning, and a diagonal crease merit the actual score.

Just as many kids first learned numbers and math via baseball cards, we assume some picked up "baseball French" thanks to World Wide Gum cards, who printed this bilingual series to increase their appeal in Quebec and other Francophile markets. If you take anything away from this auction listing, make it "quel frappeur" : What a hitter! (Say "quel" like the name of fellow Hall of Famer George Kell and "frappeur" as fra-poor.)