Deadball Era
This section prioritizes E-series caramel and D-series bakery cards. The heart of it is the 1909–11 American Caramel set (E90-1): colorful candy cards that came with hard caramel, claiming "100 subjects" on the reverse while more than 120 are known. Joe Jackson's consensus rookie lives in this set, which is why it is the focus — that, and the look of the issue itself, with its painted backgrounds and the scarcity that comes from short prints and candy-store survival. Around it sit other caramel and bakery survivors collected the same way: story, eye appeal, and original distribution scarcity over checklist completion.
Cards
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Related Pieces
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Targets
11Figures and issues still being chased. Empty frames only — no prices.
E90-1 Targets
Honus Wagner
1909–11 E90-1 American Caramel
Key Hall of Famer in the focus set. The batting or throwing pose, whichever turns up first in the right look.
Tris Speaker
1909–11 E90-1 American Caramel
Speaker is already in the collection on bakery issues; an E90-1 would put him in the focus set.
Eddie Plank
1909–11 E90-1 American Caramel
A's left-hander and one of the tougher stars in the checklist.
Nap Lajoie
1909–11 E90-1 American Caramel
"The Frenchman," Cleveland's namesake, a cornerstone of any E90-1 run.
Cy Young
1909–11 E90-1 American Caramel
Boston or Cleveland pose — either fills a major gap in the focus set.
Addie Joss
1909–11 E90-1 American Caramel
Portrait or pitching pose; scarce talent cut short, and a short-printed look in many runs.
Ed Walsh
1909–11 E90-1 American Caramel
The spitball craftsman; among the later-printed and tougher E90-1 subjects.
Willie Keeler
1909–11 E90-1 American Caramel
Multiple background/pose variants; a clean, well-registered example.
Beyond E90-1: Stars the Set Missed
Smoky Joe Wood
Other caramel / bakery · not in E90-1
Absent from the E90-1 checklist. Appears on 1910 E91-C American Caramel — a natural caramel target outside the focus set.
Walter Johnson
Other caramel / bakery · not in E90-1
Absent from the E90-1 checklist. Appears on 1910 E91-C American Caramel — the Big Train on a caramel issue the focus set never issued.
Rube Waddell
Other caramel / bakery · not in E90-1
Absent from the E90-1 checklist. Appears on 1908 E91-A American Caramel — an earlier American Caramel issue than the focus set.