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1955 ROBERT GOULD STATUES

If you read our last Blog entry about the Dairy Queen and Big League Stars statue sets, this article will seem very similar. The Robert Gould All-Star statue set was issued in 1955. The company was located in New York. The series contained 28 player statues. The statues were made of hard plastic and all are bone white in color. They measure up to 3.5" tall. They all came with round bases with the names of the individual players embossed on the front. The statues were sold attached (by rubber band) to a card that had a drawing of the player and stats from his 1954 season and overall stats. The cards are much more difficult to find than the statues and can triple the price when found together.

Many of the players issued in this set are not household names today. There were several players who went on to have Hall of Fame careers (Mays, Schoendienst, Wynn, Ashburn and Banks). Interestingly, the Dairy Queen and Big League Star statues duplicated none of these players. There is a very hard to find brochure issued by Gould that lists all of the 28 players and has copies of their corresponding cards. In the back of the brochure it indicates that there would be a series of "All-Time" great statues such as Ruth and Gehrig. Sadly, these statues never went to production.

These statues are great to display- do not take up much room and will bring you "baby boomers" back to simpler times.

LIST OF ROBERT GOULD STATUES

Willie Mays

Red Schoendienst

Chico Carrasquel

Jim Hegan

Curt simmons

Bob Porterfield

Jim Busby

Don Mueller

Ted Kluszewski

Ray Boone

Smoky Burgess

Bob Rush

Early Wynn

Bill Bruton

Gus Bell

Jim Finigan

Granny Hamner

Hank Thompson

Joe Coleman

Don Newcombe

Richie Ashburn

Bobby Thomson

Sid Gordon

Gerry Coleman

Ernie Banks

Billy Pierce

Mel Parnell