This is because in rare instances the cards can be found with an advertisement for some form of George Close candy product stamped on the reverse. These stamped cards are very rare however and most E94s are found without the stamps.
There are 30 cards in the set with each card having a solid color background. The background can be found in one of six colors including, red, blue, olive, green, purple or gold. It is believed that each player can be found with each background color.
As mentioned earlier, some of these cards come with different stamps on the backs. Here is a gallery of the different backs, There are currently ten known stamps. Below are the known backs.
This is where the set gets it's name, George Close Candy". Each of these ads (except the Blome's Chocolates) ad is from George Close. Without these stamps the backs look like this.
The back on the left is a regular E94 back and the one on the right is an M131 Baltimore Newsboys version. There is a separate closely related set of Baltimore Newsboys cards that have the exact same images and checklist as the E94 set, but all have blue backgrounds.
Here is the checklist of the E94s:
- Jimmy Austin
- Johnny Bates
- Bob Bescher
- Bobby Byrne
- Frank Chance
- Eddie Cicotte
- Ty Cobb
- Sam Crawford
- Harry Davis
- Art Devlin
- Josh Devore
- Mickey Doolan
- Patsy Dougherty
- Johnny Evers
- Ed Grant
- Hughie Jennings
- Red Kleinow
- Nap Lajoie
- Joe Lake
- Tommy Leach
- Hans Lobert
- Harry Lord
- Sherry Magee
- John McGraw
- Earl Moore
- Red Murray
- Tris Speaker
- Terry Turner
- Honus Wagner
- Cy Young
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