Pre-War Cards

Among the many types of sports card sets in the pre-war era are multi-sport issues. These sets contained a variety of sports and often did not focus on specific ones.

Common multi-sport issues were the 19th century ‘Champions’ tobacco card sets from the likes of Allen & Ginter, Kimball, and Goodwin. And that theme continued into the 20th century with other multi-sport releases, such as the T218 Champions set, depicting a wide variety of champion athletes. Additionally, international tobacco and candy card sets often had a ‘Sports of the World’ theme, showing off various sports that were popular in different parts of the world.

As time went on, multi-sport sets continued their popularity. Several were produced in Canada in the 1920s and others were still being issued in the 1930s. One of the most popular, of course, is Goudey’s 1933 Sport Kings series.

There are so many multi-sport card sets that it would not be possible to include all of them. You will find more obscure ones scattered on this site but here is a listing of some of the most popular ones.

Sets

1888 Allen & Ginter (N28)	1889 Allen & Ginter (N29)	1889 Allen & Ginter (N43)
1910 Champion Athletes (C52)	1925 Dominion Chocolate (V31)	1888 Goodwin Champions (N162)
1889 Goodwin Games & Sports (N165)	1933-34 Goudey Sport Kings (R338)	1933 Goudey Sport Kings Premiums (R340)
1887 Kimball Champions (N184)	1909-11 Murad College Series (T51)	1909-11 Murad College Series Cabinets (T6)
1930s Rogers Peet Clothing	1926 Spalding Champions	1910-12 T218 Champions (Honest, Mecca, Tolstoi)
1912 T227 Champions (Honest, Mecca)	1933 U.S. Caramel (R328)	1925-27 W512 Strip Cards
1928 W513 Strip	1921 W551 Strip	1927 W560 Strip
1925-31 W590 Strip	1924 Willard’s Sports Champions (V122)	1935-41 Wheaties Panels

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