Posted By:
Ted ZanidakisDig this theory......
In 1909 (designed in 1908) the RAMLY Cigarette Co. based in Worcester, Mass. issued a 120 card BB set.
It competed with American Caramel (ACC) for the Rights to portray certain BB players. Specifically, most
Boston (AL & NL) Subjects. Furthermore, RAMLY had acquired the Rights to portray Frank Bancroft (Cinci
Mgr.) and his Cincinnati players.
Therefore, RAMLY prevented ACC from portraying any of these players in their E90 1908 and 1909 series.
When ACC printed their last E90 series in 1910, they were free to include a lot of the Boston and Cincin-
nati players that they were prevented from portraying in their earlier series. And, as usually occurs in a
final (or Hi #) series, they were short-printed.
The RAMLY set consists of many Boston & Cinci players....of which, the following were in the 1910 issue
of the E90-1 set......
Fromme
Karger
Lobert
McLean
Mike Mitchell
Ritchey (Richie)
Stahl
Bill Sweeney
All these RAMLY Boston & Cinci Subjects did not appear in the E90-1 set......
Jim Ball
Bancroft
Bowerman
Burchell
Burkett
Carrigan
Cicotte
Dorner
Ewing
Ferguson
Gessler
Hoblitzel
Huggins
Lindaman
Lord
McConnell
Morgan
Niles
And incidently, Walter Johnson was in RAMLY....but, it's been a real mystery as to why he was not in the
E90-1 set ?
Especially, since Johnson was depicted in the earlier E91 set (albeit as a left-handed pitcher).
TED Z