Fox/Greenberg/Walker/Rowe - 1935 Goudey 4-in-1 #9
1935 Goudey 4-in-1 #9 — Pete Fox / Hank Greenberg / Gee Walker / Schoolboy Rowe
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 2 different backs (8F, 9F), so it counts 2 entries toward the 114-combination master set.
This front appears only with the two 12-piece team puzzles (Cleveland Indians and Washington Senators), which had a single printing — two combos exist and neither is short-printed.
The card & its puzzle backs
About Pete Fox
Ervin Fox owed his everyday name to Beaumont, Texas, where Texas League fans watching his speed in 1932 dubbed him “Peter Rabbit” — soon just “Pete.” Signed off Evansville, Indiana’s sandlots, he turned pro in 1930, led the Texas League at .357 for a Beaumont club featuring Hank Greenberg and Schoolboy Rowe, and patrolled Detroit’s outfield from 1933 to 1940 before closing with the Boston Red Sox (1941–45). A .298 lifetime hitter and five-time league fielding-average leader in right, he batted .327 across three World Series and set a record with six doubles in the 1934 Fall Classic. In 1935 he reeled off 29- and 17-game hitting streaks, hit .321, then paced everyone with ten hits and a .385 average as the Tigers toppled the Cubs — The Sporting News called him “the individual hitting star of the series.” A 1944 All-Star at 35, Fox anchors the upper-left of this all-Tigers 4-in-1 beside Beaumont teammates Greenberg and Rowe plus Gee Walker — issued the very season Detroit won it all.
Sources: Wikipedia · Baseball-Reference · SABR
About Hank Greenberg
The first Jewish superstar in American team sports, Bronx-raised Henry Benjamin Greenberg turned down the Yankees — Lou Gehrig owned first base — and signed with Detroit in 1929. By 1934 “Hammerin’ Hank” hit .339 with an AL-best 63 doubles for the Tigers’ first pennant in 25 years, famously sitting out Yom Kippur mid-race, honored in Edgar Guest’s verse as “true to his religion.” In 1935 he was unanimous AL MVP, tying Jimmie Foxx with 36 homers and driving in 168 runs; a Game 2 wrist injury ended his World Series, yet Detroit beat the Cubs for its first title. He drove in 184 runs in 1937, hit 58 homers chasing Ruth in 1938, and won the 1940 MVP as a left fielder — first honored at two positions. After 47 months of World War II service, most of any major leaguer, he clinched the 1945 pennant with a ninth-inning grand slam on the season’s final day and won another Series. A .313 hitter with 331 home runs, Greenberg entered Cooperstown in 1956. Here he shares card #9 with Tigers teammates Pete Fox, Gee Walker, and Schoolboy Rowe — four members of the club that won it all the year this card hit shops.
Sources: Wikipedia · Baseball-Reference · SABR
About Gee Walker
Gerald “Gee” Walker starred in football and baseball at Ole Miss, followed brother Hub into pro ball in 1928, and debuted with the Detroit Tigers on April 14, 1931. A fiery clown whose antics earned him the nickname “The Madman from Mississippi,” he hit .300 or better in five of his first seven seasons yet drove managers wild — he once tried to steal during an intentional walk, and a 1934 baserunning lapse drew a ten-day suspension from Mickey Cochrane. Detroit adored him anyway. His ninth-inning pinch single in Game 2 of the 1934 World Series scored panel-mate Pete Fox to tie the game, and he started Game 6 in 1935, scoring as the Tigers won their first championship — the very season this all-Tigers 4-in-1 grouped him with Fox, Hank Greenberg, and Schoolboy Rowe. Walker hit a career-best .353 in 1936, opened 1937 with baseball's only Opening Day cycle — in reverse order, homer first — en route to All-Star honors, and his December 1937 trade sparked such an uproar that owner Walter Briggs publicly defended the deal. Over fifteen seasons he batted .294 with 1,991 hits and 223 stolen bases.
Sources: Wikipedia · Baseball-Reference · SABR
About Schoolboy Rowe
Lynwood Thomas Rowe was “Schoolboy” by 14, the tag a local sportswriter hung on the El Dorado, Arkansas prodigy for mowing down grown men in an adult church league. The 6-foot-4 righthander broke in alongside Hank Greenberg on Beaumont's 1932 Texas League champions, shut out the White Sox on six hits in his 1933 Detroit debut, and in 1934 went 24–8 with an AL record-tying 16 straight wins to power the Tigers' first pennant since 1909 — the same season he famously asked his fiancée “How'm I doing, Edna?” on national radio, a line rival benches never let him forget. In 1935 his 19 wins and league-best six shutouts helped Detroit to its first world championship. A three-time All-Star and one of history's best-hitting pitchers (.263, 18 home runs), he overcame chronic arm trouble to finish 158–101 through 1949, resurfacing to go 16–3 for the 1940 pennant winners and starring again for the wartime Phillies. His portrait was drawn fresh for 1935 — one of just 11 subjects without earlier Goudey artwork — on an all-Tigers panel with Greenberg, Gee Walker, and roommate Pete Fox, who had stood up at Schoolboy and Edna's wedding months before.
Sources: Wikipedia · Baseball-Reference · SABR
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 147 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 114 | 2 |
| SGC | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 77 | 4 |
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: 8F 80 · 9F 67
SGC by back: 8F 39 · 9F 45
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1935 Goudey 4-in-1 Fox/Greenberg/Walker/Rowe card?
It is one of the 36 unnumbered fronts of the 1935 Goudey 4-in-1 set (R321), picturing Pete Fox / Hank Greenberg / Gee Walker / Schoolboy Rowe. 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 #9 of 36.
How many backs does this card have?
2: 8F, 9F. 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.
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.