You can’t fully understand this card without reading… This link about the 1933 Goudey Sport Kings set as a whole.
The Card: Just like the previous card in the set, the #32 Joe “Lopchick,” the reverse features the hyphenated “Basket-Ball,” which doesn’t appear this way on the earlier Nat Holman card of the set. This is certainly a relic of the 1930’s as is some of the wording on the back of the card. The final information that he has “deadly accuracy in shooting the ball into the basket” is certainly dated in a pleasant way. Also, don’t let the 1934 copyright confuse you. The set is typically referred to as the “1933 Sport Kings,” but this is one of the cards whose production ran into the following year. The fact that three cards in this set (Nat Holman, Joe Lapchik, Eddie Burke) feature the Original Celtics of New York, you begin to have an idea of how dominate they were in the basketball world during this time. The PSA website says that they won over 90% of their games.
The 2001 Standard Catalog of Basketball Cards lists a Near Mint at $250, a NM/M at $595 and a Mint at $1700. Value has risen steadily! A PSA 2.5 sold for $203.50 on June 23, 2018 (eBay item 352381758142).
In Short: This Eddie Burke card completes all four basketball cards from the 1933 Goudey Sport Kings set. Basketball card collectors should really know these four cards. It’s important to be aware that the there are elements of the hobby predating the 1948 Bowman set!
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