The fall of the candy card

[judsonhamlin]

Originally Posted by ScottFandango

that is because the e90-1 SET has a huge dichotomy between common cards and rare cards...most are VERY COMMON, but they are a few dozen that are very rare indeed...its because these cards were not produced at once, instead having many different print runs....

i wont mention "SHADED REVERSE BORDERS" variations on this set cause i dont want to get into a heated discussion but.....search feature it

I saw your old posts at the time about the shaded baseballs, and found them interesting. As far as the disparate head counts of the cards, I am amazed at the scale. I mean, for every 25 Krause, Summers or Mitchell (NY), I don't even see one Tenney, Dougherty or Bemis. That doesn't even get us to the true toughs - McLean, Speaker, Shean, Duffy, etc.

[ScottFandango]

even more interesting is :

1: there are ZERO shaded cards for sale on EBAY
2: the cards that have the shaded variation are all LOW POP players..
ie. summers and the rest of the commons have ZERO shaded versions..
3. when you look at the FRONT of the SHADED versions, they all have similar front images and color and all look like they came from a different set than the rest of the e90-1 (hint; think red backgrounds with full poses)
4. people on this board got caught up in semantics and missed the bigger picture that the shaded version painted: The rare tiers become more obvious when you look at the shaded versions that exist.
5. since the backs of E90-1 have long been considered identical, this "variation" had been undiscovered for 100 years!

good stuff