Terry/Schumacher/Mancuso/Jackson - 1935 Goudey 4-in-1 #30
1935 Goudey 4-in-1 #30 — Bill Terry / Hal Schumacher / Gus Mancuso / Travis Jackson
The backs of 1935 Goudey cards are puzzle pieces, not player bios: each is marked "PICTURE N — CARD X" and builds one of the set's nine puzzles. This front was printed with 4 different backs (1K, 3B, 4B, 5B), so it counts 4 entries toward the 114-combination master set.
Puzzles 1-7 were each printed twice with different front panels, and one side of each pairing is much scarcer: for this front, 4B is the short-printed combo (per Beckett's tags and the Dec 1995 VCBC press-panel analysis).
The card & its puzzle backs
About Bill Terry
Bill Terry reached the Giants on his own terms. He walked away from the minors in 1918 for a Standard Oil office job in Memphis, playing first base for the company’s semipro Polarines — the Memphis years that had writers calling him “Memphis Bill.” When John McGraw came offering a Giants deal in 1922, Terry’s reply became legend: “For how much?” He hit .377 at Toledo in 1923, came up that September, and never wore another uniform. Terry retired at .341 — still the highest career average by a National League left-handed hitter — with 2,193 hits, and his 1930 season (.401, with an NL record-tying 254 hits) remains the league’s last .400 campaign. Named player-manager in June 1932 to succeed McGraw, he steered the Giants to the 1933 World Series title over Washington, homering in Game 4, then added pennants in 1936 and 1937. Goudey’s all-Giants panel with Hal Schumacher, Gus Mancuso, and Travis Jackson catches the skipper in 1935, his final year as a full-time player: an All-Star starter who batted .341 with 203 hits while running the club. Cooperstown called in 1954, and the Giants retired his No. 3 in 1984.
Sources: Wikipedia · Baseball-Reference · SABR
About Hal Schumacher
“Prince Hal” Schumacher wore his royal nickname as the right-handed counterpart to Giants ace “King Carl” Hubbell, and he never pitched for anyone else — a New York Giant from 1931–42 and again in 1946. Signed off the St. Lawrence University campus by John McGraw’s club, the sinkerballer broke through in 1933, going 19–12 with seven shutouts and a 2.16 ERA, then five-hitting Washington in a 6–1 Game 2 win as the Giants took the World Series. He went 23–10 in 1934 while slugging six home runs, then a National League record for pitchers, and made All-Star teams in 1933 and 1935. His masterpiece came in the 1936 Series: ten innings and ten strikeouts to beat the Yankees 5–4 in Game 5, fanning DiMaggio and Gehrig with the bases loaded. After Navy duty aboard the carrier Cape Esperance he finished 158–121 with a 3.36 ERA, then spent two decades selling Adirondack bats — the lumber behind Bobby Thomson’s Shot Heard ’Round the World. Goudey’s 1935 four-in-one catches him mid-prime — a 19–9 season that year — alongside Giants teammates Bill Terry, Gus Mancuso, and Travis Jackson.
Sources: Wikipedia · Baseball-Reference · SABR
About Gus Mancuso
Gus "Blackie" Mancuso — a nod to his dark Sicilian complexion — went from a Houston bank's team to rank among the 1930s' finest defensive catchers. Commissioner Landis pried him from the Cardinals' "chain gang" farm system in 1930; he hit .366 for the pennant winners and earned a ring in the 1931 World Series. Dealt to New York, where Bill Terry declared him the league's best catcher, he took charge of Carl Hubbell's screwball, Hal Schumacher's sinker, and Freddie Fitzsimmons' knuckleball, guiding the staff to the NL's best ERA and the 1933 title over Washington — beating out a Game 2 squeeze bunt. He caught five pennant winners and five future Hall of Fame pitchers, logged 1,194 hits over 17 seasons, and later shared the Cardinals' radio booth with Harry Caray. Goudey caught him in stride — an All-Star in 1935 and 1937 — as one of only six players on two fronts in this 36-card set, with Mel Ott on card #5 and player-manager Bill Terry on #30.
Sources: Wikipedia · Baseball-Reference · SABR
About Travis Jackson
Travis Calvin Jackson broke into the majors with the New York Giants in 1922, after Southern Association manager Kid Elberfeld discovered the Arkansas teenager and steered him to John McGraw. By 1924 he had won the Giants starting shortstop job outright, and for the next decade he anchored an infield that carried New York to four National League pennants. His exceptional range at short earned him the nickname Stonewall, and he backed it up at the plate, batting over .300 six times, including a career-high .339 in 1930, with 21 home runs in 1929. Jackson helped the Giants beat the Senators in the 1933 World Series and made the 1934 All-Star team after driving in 101 runs. On this 1935 Goudey four-in-one panel he shares the card with fellow Giants Bill Terry, Hal Schumacher and Gus Mancuso, fitting company for a season in which Jackson had shifted to third base and was serving as team captain; it proved his second-to-last big-league campaign, and he retired after 1936 with 1,768 hits, 135 home runs, 929 RBI and a .291 average. The Veterans Committee inducted him into the Hall of Fame in 1982.
Sources: Wikipedia · Baseball-Reference · SABR
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 172 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 19 | 34 | 111 | 2 |
| SGC | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 45 | 2 |
Graded population — a scarcity guide, not a price. Snapshot 2026-08-06. Half-grades fold down (8.5→8). Totals are summed across this front's graded back combinations.
PSA by back: 1K 71 · 3B 61 · 4B (SP) 17 · 5B 23
SGC by back: 1K 27 · 3B 17 · 4B (SP) 3 · 5B 3
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Related cards
Gus Mancuso also appears on: #5 Hughie Critz / Dick Bartell / Mel Ott / Gus Mancuso
More New York Giants cards:
- #5 Hughie Critz / Dick Bartell / Mel Ott / Gus Mancuso
- #17 Mark Koenig / Freddie Fitzsimmons / Ray Benge / Tom Zachary
Other fronts in the same puzzle pictures:
- #1 Charlie Berry / Bobby Burke / Red Kress / Dazzy Vance
- #4 Mickey Cochrane / Charlie Gehringer / Tommy Bridges / Billy Rogell
- #5 Hughie Critz / Dick Bartell / Mel Ott / Gus Mancuso
- #6 Joe Cronin / Carl Reynolds / Max Bishop / Bill Cissell
- #8 George Earnshaw / Jimmy Dykes / Luke Sewell / Luke Appling
- #10 Frankie Frisch / Dizzy Dean / Ernie Orsatti / Tex Carleton
- #11 Burleigh Grimes / Chuck Klein / Kiki Cuyler / Woody English
- #14 Willis Hudlin / Glenn Myatt / Adam Comorosky / Jim Bottomley
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1935 Goudey 4-in-1 Terry/Schumacher/Mancuso/Jackson card?
It is one of the 36 unnumbered fronts of the 1935 Goudey 4-in-1 set (R321), picturing Bill Terry / Hal Schumacher / Gus Mancuso / Travis Jackson. The 2-3/8 by 2-7/8 inch card carries four color portraits on the front and a puzzle piece on the back. Checklists that number the set (Old Cardboard / the Burdick Collection convention, alphabetical by the upper-left player) list it as #30 of 36.
How many backs does this card have?
4: 1K, 3B, 4B, 5B. Every 1935 Goudey front was printed with two to four different puzzle-piece backs, and collectors chasing the 114-combination master set track each front/back pairing separately. The 4B printing is short prints per Beckett and the VCBC press-panel analysis.
How many cards are in the 1935 Goudey 4-in-1 set?
36 fronts, each with four players (144 panels picturing 138 different men). Counting the two-to-four puzzle backs each front was printed with, the master set runs to 114 front/back combinations, 42 of them short prints. A complete set of all nine puzzles requires 72 different backs.
Sources: Trading Card Database, Old Cardboard, the Burdick Collection catalog (Metropolitan Museum of Art), SABR Baseball Cards research, Baseball-Reference, PSA & SGC population reports, and the Dec 1995 VCBC press-panel analysis. Card data compiled and maintained by T206Cards.com. Page last updated 2026-08-14.