E94 George Close Candy 1911

1911 · George Close Candy Company (Cambridge, MA)

Close Candy Company 30-card set. Each subject was printed in seven background colors: blue, gold, green, olive, orange, purple, and red.

Key Facts

Release: 1911
Manufacturer: George Close Candy Company (Cambridge, MA)
Distribution: Inserted in penny caramel packs; the same 30 player illustrations were printed on seven different background colors
Card stock: Lithographed cardstock with color background backdrops, approximately 1½″ × 2¾″
Printer / Designer: Unknown — distinguished by its uniform seven-color backdrop scheme (Blue, Gold, Green, Olive, Orange, Purple, Red)
Series: 30 baseball subjects, each available in up to seven background colors
Total cards: 30

Honus Wagner
Wagner across seven background colors — collectors target the Gold or Orange variants as the most striking.
Ty Cobb
Cobb in the same year he hit .420 and won the AL MVP — the headline E94 card.
Cy Young
Issued the year Young retired — one of the very last contemporary cards of his playing career.
Tris Speaker
Spoke Speaker in his Red Sox prime, a year before his 1912 AL MVP campaign.
Nap Lajoie
Naps player-manager during one of his final productive offensive years.
Sam Crawford
Wahoo Sam — paired with Cobb in the Tigers outfield throughout the early 1910s.
Frank Chance
Peerless Leader — captured here as the Cubs' dynasty began to wind down.
Johnny Evers
Trojan second baseman — third pillar of the Cubs' Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance trio.
Hughie Jennings
Tigers player-manager — famous for his "Ee-yah!" hollers from the coaching box.
John McGraw
Little Napoleon — Giants manager mid-dynasty.
Ed Cicotte
Early-career Cicotte with Boston, eight years before his banishment in the Black Sox scandal.
Sherry Magee
Reigning 1910 NL batting champion — the same player whose T206 "Magie" misspelling became iconic.