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1933 Goudey #53 Babe Ruth

Set
Topps
Year
1933
Sport
Baseball
Era
Vintage
Grades on record
35
Verified sales
188

No headline price

This card has a verified sale at 34 grades from a named grading company, across 4 grading companies (BGS, BVG, PSA, SGC). Across those, the two ends sit 66.3× apart: BVG 1 at $2,760 against SGC 7.5 at $183,000. Which one is the price depends on which slab is in your hand.

Notes on the file

Written from the record above. Every figure quoted here is one of the figures in the ladder; anything that could not be traced back to a verified sale was cut rather than corrected.

Most-traded gradePSA 1 · $12,601 · 16 verified sales

What this card is

The 1933 Goudey #53 card features Babe Ruth and is part of the 1933 Goudey set, one of the most widely recognized issues from the pre-war era of baseball card production. Card #53 is a standard base-set issue rather than a rookie card, since Ruth's playing career began well before 1933. It remains one of the most actively traded vintage baseball cards, with realized sale prices spanning a wide range across condition and grading tiers.

Longest-standing figureSGC 7 · $13,145 · last sold 05 NOV 2010

The set it came from

Card #53 belongs to the 1933 Goudey set, produced by the Goudey Gum Company, one of the defining issues of the pre-war gum-card era of baseball card production. Specific set size, print run, and original release date are not established in the available data.

Spread across graded copiesBVG 1 $2,760 → SGC 7.5 $183,000 · 66.3×

Why the grades diverge

Realized sales include copies graded across a wide spectrum, from authenticated or low-grade examples (SGC Authentic, PSA Authentic, and grades of 1 and 1.5) up through mid and high grades including PSA 6, PSA 7, and PSA 8, as well as an ungraded sale. Population and registry ranking figures are not available in the current data.

Most recent verified saleSGC 1.5 · $12,877 · 16 JUL 2026

What the record shows

Recent verified-comp activity from 2025 and 2026 shows frequent transactions across low and mid grades, including a $158,600 sale for a PSA 7 copy in July 2026 and a $73,200 sale for a PSA 6 copy in March 2026. The gap between low-grade and high-grade realized prices indicates strong grade sensitivity in this card's market.

On the record4 questions the archive can answer
What set is the 1933 Goudey #53 Babe Ruth card from?
It is card #53 from the 1933 Goudey set, produced by the Goudey Gum Company.
Is the 1933 Goudey #53 a Babe Ruth rookie card?
No. Ruth's playing career predates 1933, so this is a standard base-set issue rather than a rookie card.
What is the highest recorded sale price for this card?
A PSA 8 copy sold for $203,150 in November 2016, the highest price among available realized sales.
What grading companies have graded this card in the realized-sales data?
Realized sales include copies graded by PSA, SGC, and BGS, as well as ungraded examples.
Where each graded copy sits — log scale17 priced grades
$2,760 BVG 1SGC 7.5 $183,000

The grade ladder

Every grade this card has a priced record in — nothing withheld — kept apart by grading company because a PSA 10 and a CGC 10 are different assets. 18 figures are marked disputed and should not be read as this card's price at that grade.

1933 Goudey #53 Babe Ruth — value, evidence and recency for every grade on record
GradeValueLast verified sale Realized rangeSold / comps DepthBasis
BGS — graded 1 grade · 1 verified sale
2.5 $10,370 29 MAR 2025 $10,370 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
BVG — graded 4 grades · 4 verified sales
4.5 $4,302disputed: Priced below BVG 1.5, a lower grade from the same company 16 MAY 2015 $4,302 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
2 $1,554disputed: Priced below BVG 1.5, a lower grade from the same company 15 NOV 2015 $1,554 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
1.5 $7,800 24 JUL 2021 $7,800 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
1 $2,760 25 OCT 2020 $2,760 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
PSA — graded 13 grades · 102 verified sales
8 $168,000 24 JAN 2019 $120,000 – $203,150 4 realized sales of 4 comps thin last comp · sold
7 $158,600 11 JUL 2026 $11,950 – $158,600 7 realized sales of 7 comps thin last comp · sold
6 $73,200 01 MAR 2026 $15,535 – $73,200 8 realized sales of 8 comps thin last comp · sold
5 $42,700disputed: Priced below PSA 4.5, a lower grade from the same company 26 OCT 2025 $4,780 – $55,200 7 realized sales of 7 comps thin last comp · sold
4.5 $57,340 26 OCT 2025 $40,870 – $57,340 2 realized sales of 2 comps thin last comp · sold
4 $22,200disputed: Priced below PSA 2, a lower grade from the same company 20 AUG 2023 $3,107 – $28,800 13 realized sales of 13 comps thin last comp · sold
3.5 $25,200disputed: Priced below PSA 2, a lower grade from the same company 25 MAR 2023 $5,040 – $25,200 3 realized sales of 3 comps thin last comp · sold
3 $21,350disputed: Priced below PSA 2, a lower grade from the same company 07 JUN 2026 $1,554 – $38,400 14 realized sales of 14 comps moderate wtd median · sold
2.5 $22,000disputed: Priced below PSA 2, a lower grade from the same company 01 MAY 2026 $2,002 – $22,000 6 realized sales of 6 comps thin last comp · sold
2 $25,620 11 JUL 2026 $1,554 – $25,620 14 realized sales of 14 comps thin last comp · sold
1.5 $10,065disputed: Priced below PSA 1, a lower grade from the same company 17 MAY 2026 $7,800 – $12,810 5 realized sales of 5 comps thin last comp · sold
1 $12,601 27 JUN 2026 $837 – $13,800 16 realized sales of 16 comps moderate wtd median · sold
Authentic $4,148 18 MAY 2025 $3,480 – $4,920 3 realized sales of 3 comps thin last comp · sold
SGC — graded 16 grades · 78 verified sales
10 $1,554disputed: Priced below SGC 7.5, a lower grade from the same company 06 SEP 2015 $837 – $1,554 2 realized sales of 2 comps thin last comp · sold
7.5 $183,000 23 FEB 2025 $21,510 – $183,000 3 realized sales of 3 comps thin last comp · sold
7 $13,145disputed: Priced below SGC 5, a lower grade from the same company 05 NOV 2010 $13,145 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
6.5 $7,768disputed: Priced below SGC 5, a lower grade from the same company 09 NOV 2013 $7,768 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
6 $14,400disputed: Priced below SGC 5, a lower grade from the same company 20 JUL 2019 $14,400 – $15,600 2 realized sales of 2 comps thin last comp · sold
5.5 $36,000disputed: Priced below SGC 5, a lower grade from the same company 19 NOV 2022 $36,000 – $48,000 2 realized sales of 2 comps thin last comp · sold
5 $45,101 22 JUN 2026 $5,378 – $45,101 6 realized sales of 6 comps thin last comp · sold
4.5 $8,400disputed: Priced below SGC 3.5, a lower grade from the same company 20 JUL 2019 $4,780 – $10,755 4 realized sales of 4 comps thin last comp · sold
4 $21,960disputed: Priced below SGC 3.5, a lower grade from the same company 26 OCT 2025 $3,346 – $21,960 3 realized sales of 3 comps thin last comp · sold
3.5 $23,400 20 NOV 2021 $4,560 – $38,400 5 realized sales of 5 comps thin last comp · sold
3 $18,300 25 APR 2026 $1,554 – $21,600 8 realized sales of 8 comps thin last comp · sold
2.5 $10,800disputed: Priced below SGC 1.5, a lower grade from the same company 23 MAR 2024 $8,700 – $13,200 5 realized sales of 5 comps thin last comp · sold
2 $12,600disputed: Priced below SGC 1.5, a lower grade from the same company 09 JUL 2026 $1,554 – $13,200 14 realized sales of 14 comps thin last comp · sold
1.5 $12,877 16 JUL 2026 $1,019 – $12,877 6 realized sales of 6 comps thin last comp · sold
1 $7,930 07 JUN 2026 $2,293 – $10,150 12 realized sales of 12 comps moderate wtd median · sold
Authentic $10,260 20 NOV 2021 $598 – $10,260 4 realized sales of 4 comps thin last comp · sold
Raw — ungraded 1 grade · 3 verified sales Copies sold with no grade assigned by any company.
Raw $4,750disputed: Priced at or above BVG 2, a graded copy — an ungraded copy should not be 01 JUN 2026 $4,750 – $9,600 3 realized sales of 3 comps thin last comp · sold

How these numbers are made

Source
FLOAT's own verified-comp archive. A comp is a realized sale only when it settled as an auction, a fixed-price purchase or an accepted offer; marketplace asks and price-guide columns are counted separately as quotes and can never stand in for a sale.
This file
188 verified sales across 35 grades, computed from the archive as it stood on 07 AUG 2026.
Recency
Each grade shows the date of its own most recent verified sale. There is no refresh clock on this page and there will not be one: a graded card of this kind changes hands roughly twice a year, so a ticking counter would imply motion this market does not have.
Missing figures
A grade with no verified sale says so and shows no date. Nothing on this page is estimated, extrapolated or filled in from a comparable card.
Which grade is yours
Read the row for the company on your slab. The grade number alone is not enough — the same number from two companies is two different assets and trades accordingly.
Reading a row
"Value" is what the archive resolves that grade to; last comp means it is simply the most recent realized sale, carried forward. "Depth" is how much recent trade stands behind it — thin means fewer than three sales in the window, which is most of this market.
Disputed figures
A row marked disputed contradicts another row on this page: a grade priced below a lower grade from the same grading company, or an ungraded copy priced at or above a graded one. Both figures cannot be right and the archive does not say which is wrong, so neither is deleted and the less credible side carries the mark. Removing the row would hide the conflict rather than resolve it; 18 of the 35 grades on this page are marked. Disputed figures are never used for the spread quoted at the top of this page.