World Wide Gum was the Canadian version of Goudey and issued a handful of sets during the 1930's that mostly mimicked their US counterparts. In 1936 however, it can be argued WWG offered a superior product. They added a front nameplate and changed over the American reverse - which featured simplistic plays for a simulated baseball game - substituting a small biography instead. This is one of the tougher and more highly sought-after issues of the era. 

Dizzy Dean inherited the title of most popular and colorful player in the game after the retirement of Babe Ruth. Dean's key season was 1934 when he and his brother Paul led the Cardinals to a World Championship with some of the most incredible pitching performances ever recorded and by 1936 Dean's injuries were cutting his career short. Still his incredible five year stretch between 1932 and 1936 have made him one of the most popular and endearing figures in the game's history.

Dean is the subject of this example, which is centered just east on the canvas. Corners and edges are consistent with the grade, while only some faint soiling along the top edge and light foxing in the bottom left corner keep this one from grading even higher than it already has. The reverse, which is printed in both English and French for the potentially bilingual Canadian audience, is dark and bold, and the canvas very clean. This is an extraordinary example seldom seen with this sort of visual appeal.

 SGC has only ever graded 11 total examples of this 1936 World Wide Gum card, with only five receiving a higher grade than the VG-EX+ 4.5 offered here of Hall of Famer Dizzy Dean.