Joe Cronin - 1933 Goudey #109
1933 Goudey #109 Joe Cronin
Player-manager.
No team banner: this card comes from Goudey's late-1933 press sheets 8-10, which dropped the team-name banner from the front design. Sheet 10 was the "World Series" sheet — split evenly between the pennant-winning Senators and Giants and released after the Series ended on October 7, 1933.
About Joe Cronin
Joe Cronin, a San Francisco native, signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1924 and spent parts of three seasons on their bench before being sold to the minor-league Kansas City Blues. Washington Senators scout Joe Engel discovered him there in July 1928, and the right-handed-hitting shortstop soon blossomed into the American League's best. In 1930 he batted .346 with 203 hits and 126 RBIs, earning the AL's Most Valuable Player award. In 1933, at just 26, Cronin became player-manager of the Senators and drove them to a 99-53 record and the pennant — the franchise's last in Washington — hitting .309 with 118 RBIs and 45 doubles along the way, though the club fell to the New York Giants in the World Series. He was a seven-time All-Star (1933-35, 1937-39, 1941) and finished his 20-year career with a .301 average, 2,285 hits, 170 home runs, and 1,424 RBIs across stops with Pittsburgh, Washington, and Boston, where he served for years as Red Sox player-manager after a then-record $250,000 sale in 1934. Cronin was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1956 and later became American League president, the only man to serve as player, manager, general manager, and league president over the course of his career.
Sources: Wikipedia · Baseball-Reference · SABR
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 466 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 31 | 49 | 79 | 287 | 7 |
| SGC | 265 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 28 | 206 | 18 |
Graded population — a scarcity guide, not a price. Snapshot 2026-07-03. Half-grades fold down (8.5→8). PSA counts are straight-graded.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1933 Goudey Joe Cronin card?
It is card #109 of the 1933 Goudey (R319) Baseball set - the 240-card, 2-3/8 by 2-7/8 inch color-art set issued in 1933 with Big League Chewing Gum. It pictures Joe Cronin as manager of the Washington Senators.
Why does this card have no team banner?
It comes from Goudey's late-1933 press sheets 8-10, which dropped the team-name banner from the front design - 72 cards in the set share the bannerless look. This card is from sheet 10, the World Series sheet, split evenly between the pennant-winning Senators and Giants and released after the Series ended on October 7, 1933.
Is the 1933 Goudey Joe Cronin #109 a rookie card?
By modern catalog convention, yes. 1933 Goudey is treated as the hobby's first major nationally distributed gum set, so nearly every card in it carries the rookie-card (RC) designation - a modern label applied retroactively, since many of these players had earlier tobacco, caramel, or strip cards.
How many cards are in the 1933 Goudey set?
240 numbered cards, though collectors usually count 241 collectible cards because #6 Jimmy Dykes exists in an error and a corrected version. Only 239 numbers were in 1933 packs - #106 (Nap Lajoie) was printed in 1934 and issued by mail.
Sources: Trading Card Database, Baseball-Reference, PSA & SGC population reports, and hobby press-sheet research. Card data compiled and maintained by T206Cards.com. Page last updated 2026-07-04.