1933 Goudey #53 Babe Ruth

Set: Topps
Manufacturer: Goudey Gum Company
Year: 1933
Sport: Baseball
Era: Vintage
Grades on record: 34
Verified sales: 168

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).

Notes on the file

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

Most-traded gradePSA 4 · $22,200 sold Aug 20, 2023 · 13 verified sales

What this card is

The 1933 Goudey #53 Babe Ruth is one of the most recognizable cards in the Goudey series, depicting Ruth in a red-background pose. It is among the most heavily traded pre-war baseball cards in the hobby due to Ruth's stature and the card's availability across many condition grades.

Longest-standing figureSGC 7 · $13,145 sold Nov 5, 2010 · last sold 05 NOV 2010

The set it came from

Goudey cards were packaged with bubble gum and are considered foundational to the modern trading card hobby.

Why the grades diverge

Realized sales span the full grading spectrum from Authentic and SGC 1 up through PSA 8, reflecting the card's wide survival across low- and mid-grade examples; professionally graded copies exist in varying quantities across PSA, SGC, and BGS.

Most recent verified salePSA 7 · $158,600 · 11 JUL 2026

What the record shows

A PSA 7 sold for $158,600 in 2026, underscoring a steep value curve above grade 6.

On the record3 questions the archive can answer

Why is the 1933 Goudey Ruth card significant?: It is part of the foundational 1933 Goudey set, one of the earliest widely collected gum card issues, and features Babe Ruth, one of baseball's most iconic figures.
How many Babe Ruth cards are in the 1933 Goudey set?: The 1933 Goudey set includes four different Babe Ruth cards, of which #53 is one.
What grading services have graded this card?: Sales records show examples graded by PSA, SGC, and BGS, along with ungraded and authenticated-only copies.

Value by grade

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. 34 grades show only a dated last sale: too few recent sales to state a current price.

1933 Goudey #53 Babe Ruth — value, evidence and recency for every grade on record
Grade	Value	Last verified sale	Realized range	Sold / comps	Depth	Basis
BGS — graded 1 grade · 1 verified sale
2.5	Last known sale Mar 2025: not a current price	29 MAR 2025	$10,370 · Mar 29, 2025	1 realized sale of 1 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
BVG — graded 4 grades · 4 verified sales
4.5	Last known sale May 2015: not a current price	16 MAY 2015	$4,302 · May 16, 2015	1 realized sale of 1 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
2	Last known sale Nov 2015: not a current price	15 NOV 2015	$1,554 · Nov 15, 2015	1 realized sale of 1 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
1.5	Last known sale Jul 2021: not a current price	24 JUL 2021	$7,800 · Jul 24, 2021	1 realized sale of 1 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
1	Last known sale Oct 2020: not a current price	25 OCT 2020	$2,760 · Oct 25, 2020	1 realized sale of 1 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
PSA — graded 13 grades · 90 verified sales
8	Last known sale Jan 2019: not a current price	24 JAN 2019	$168,000 · Jan 24, 2019	4 realized sales of 4 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
7	Last sale Jul 11, 2026: not a current price	11 JUL 2026	$158,600 · Jul 11, 2026	6 realized sales of 6 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
6	Last known sale Mar 2026: not a current price	01 MAR 2026	$73,200 · Mar 1, 2026	8 realized sales of 8 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
5	Last known sale Oct 2025: not a current price	26 OCT 2025	$42,700 · Oct 26, 2025	7 realized sales of 7 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
4.5	Last known sale Oct 2025: not a current price	26 OCT 2025	$57,340 · Oct 26, 2025	2 realized sales of 2 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
4	Last known sale Aug 2023: not a current price	20 AUG 2023	$22,200 · Aug 20, 2023	13 realized sales of 13 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
3.5	Last known sale Mar 2023: not a current price	25 MAR 2023	$25,200 · Mar 25, 2023	3 realized sales of 3 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
3	Last sale May 17, 2026: not a current price	17 MAY 2026	$21,350 · May 17, 2026	12 realized sales of 12 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
2.5	Last known sale Jan 2026: not a current price	31 JAN 2026	$17,690 · Jan 31, 2026	5 realized sales of 5 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
2	Last sale Jul 11, 2026: not a current price	11 JUL 2026	$25,620 · Jul 11, 2026	13 realized sales of 13 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
1.5	Last sale May 17, 2026: not a current price	17 MAY 2026	$10,065 · May 17, 2026	4 realized sales of 4 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
1	Last sale May 17, 2026: not a current price	17 MAY 2026	$10,065 · May 17, 2026	10 realized sales of 10 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
Authentic	Last known sale May 2025: not a current price	18 MAY 2025	$4,148 · May 18, 2025	3 realized sales of 3 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
SGC — graded 16 grades · 73 verified sales
10	Last known sale Sep 2015: not a current price	06 SEP 2015	$1,554 · Sep 6, 2015	2 realized sales of 2 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
7.5	Last known sale Feb 2025: not a current price	23 FEB 2025	$183,000 · Feb 23, 2025	3 realized sales of 3 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
7	Last known sale Nov 2010: not a current price	05 NOV 2010	$13,145 · Nov 5, 2010	1 realized sale of 1 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
6.5	Last known sale Nov 2013: not a current price	09 NOV 2013	$7,768 · Nov 9, 2013	1 realized sale of 1 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
6	Last known sale Jul 2019: not a current price	20 JUL 2019	$14,400 · Jul 20, 2019	2 realized sales of 2 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
5.5	Last known sale Nov 2022: not a current price	19 NOV 2022	$36,000 · Nov 19, 2022	2 realized sales of 2 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
5	Last known sale Mar 2026: not a current price	01 MAR 2026	$37,820 · Mar 1, 2026	5 realized sales of 5 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
4.5	Last known sale Jul 2019: not a current price	20 JUL 2019	$8,400 · Jul 20, 2019	4 realized sales of 4 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
4	Last known sale Oct 2025: not a current price	26 OCT 2025	$21,960 · Oct 26, 2025	3 realized sales of 3 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
3.5	Last known sale Nov 2021: not a current price	20 NOV 2021	$23,400 · Nov 20, 2021	5 realized sales of 5 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
3	Last sale Apr 25, 2026: not a current price	25 APR 2026	$18,300 · Apr 25, 2026	8 realized sales of 8 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
2.5	Last known sale Mar 2024: not a current price	23 MAR 2024	$10,800 · Mar 23, 2024	5 realized sales of 5 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
2	Last known sale Oct 2024: not a current price	06 OCT 2024	$10,200 · Oct 6, 2024	13 realized sales of 13 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
1.5	Last known sale Nov 2023: not a current price	18 NOV 2023	$5,880 · Nov 18, 2023	5 realized sales of 5 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
1	Last sale Jun 7, 2026: not a current price	07 JUN 2026	$7,930 · Jun 7, 2026	10 realized sales of 10 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
Authentic	Last known sale Nov 2021: not a current price	20 NOV 2021	$10,260 · Nov 20, 2021	4 realized sales of 4 comps	thin	last comp · last sale

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: 168 verified sales across 34 grades, computed from the archive as it stood on 15 SEP 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; 15 of the 34 grades on this page are marked. Disputed figures are never used for the spread quoted at the top of this page.