[brianp-beme]

I recently checked out an old (15+ years) thread about E99 background colors. On it, the Blue background was identified as most common, while the Pink and Black were considered so rare as to be practically non-existent, while 'other colors' were identified as being equally as available, just a notch below the Blue, and Yellow being perhaps slightly less available than these 'other colors'. These other colors being Green, Purple and Red.

The Old Cardboard site lists Blue, Yellow, Green, Purple, Black and Pink backgrounds, but oddly does not mention Red. This spurred me to check E99 colors online to see what was out there.

Definitely Blue seems to be the most commonly seen color, while Green and Red seemed to be less seen than Yellow and Purple, but not that far out of line to be of much significance. I found one possible Pink (Nelson) and one possible Black (Mohler) background. I then noted for each player what normal background colors were available, and here is what I found -- listed are the color(s) that are NOT seen for each player (of the 5 normal colors):

BACKGROUND COLORS NOT VERIFIED

(In order of checklist on back of each card)

Portland

Krapp - Green, Red

Olsen - Blue (All 5 Colors Available)

Casey - Blue, Red

Byones - Green

McCredie - Green, Yellow, Red


Oakland

Nelson - Purple

Cutshaw - Yellow

Cameron - Green, Red

Wolverton - Yellow, Purple

Maggert - Green


San Francisco

Mohler - Blue, Purple, Red

Tennent - Green, Red

Bodie - Green

McArdle - (All 5 Colors Available)

Melchoir - (All 5 Colors Available)


Los Angeles

Nagle - Yellow, Blue

Dillon - Green, Yellow

Delmas - Green

Thorsen - Green, Purple, Red

Smith - Yellow, Purple, Red


Vernon

Hogan - Green, Red

N. Brashear - Green, Purple

Hitt - Yellow

Lindsay - Blue

Hasty - Red


Sacramento

Van Buren - (All 5 Colors Available)

Nourse - Purple

Hunt - Blue

Raymer - Purple

Briggs - (All 5 Colors Available)


I don't spot any obvious patterns in the missing colors, so I have a feeling they are out there, but obviously this is a fairly scarce set, so might be tough to identify more than I have.

I would love to see any that are listed above, either here or feel free to contact me by PM. And feel free to post any that have already been verified...it is always nice to see something that isn't seen that frequently.

Finally, let me know what you think about the Pink Nelson (is it a faded red?) and whether the Mohler is indeed a Black background. I have also included representative images of the other background colors as reference.

Brian