1933 Goudey #239 Leroy Parmelee
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 Leroy Parmelee
Leroy Earl "Roy" Parmelee was born April 25, 1907, in Lambertville, Michigan, and died August 31, 1981, in Monroe, Michigan. A hard-throwing right-hander, he was signed out of Toledo semipro ball in 1927 by Mud Hens manager Casey Stengel and reached the New York Giants in 1929. Over parts of seven seasons with New York (1929-1935), plus later stops with the St. Louis Cardinals (1936), Chicago Cubs (1937), and Philadelphia Athletics (1939), Parmelee went 59-55 with a 4.27 ERA and 514 strikeouts in 206 games. His best year was 1933, when he went 13-8 with a 3.17 ERA to help Bill Terry's Giants capture the pennant and the World Series over Washington, though the champion Giants' pitching staff was so deep that Terry never called on him in the Series itself. Blessed with a blazing fastball but chronic control trouble - he led the NL in hit batsmen four times and wild pitches twice - Parmelee was nicknamed "Tarzan" by New York Daily News writer Jimmy Powers, who explained the tag referred not to Parmelee's muscular build but to his wildness: "every time you pitch you seem to be out on a limb." Giants catcher Gus Mancuso summed him up: "Parmelee had as much stuff as any four or five pitchers put together, but he didn't know where it was going." In 1936 with St. Louis he outdueled Carl Hubbell in a 17-inning complete game.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 344 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 14 | 36 | 49 | 227 | 2 |
| SGC | 126 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 25 | 85 | 2 |
Graded population — a scarcity guide, not a price. Snapshot 2026-07-03. Half grades fold down for both graders (8.5→8); PSA qualified slabs (OC, ST, PD, MC and the like) are not counted.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1933 Goudey Leroy Parmelee card?
It is card #239 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 Leroy Parmelee with the New York Giants.
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 Leroy Parmelee #239 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 2026-10-05.