Foster Boston Amer

Foster Boston Amer played professional baseball during the early twentieth century, in the era documented by the tobacco-and-caramel card issues of the day. His likeness survives in the cardboard record on the E254 Colgan's Chips issue. The E254 Colgan's Chips issue, distributed in tins of chewing gum across multiple years, captures hundreds of players from the deadball era in its distinctive round format. Detailed biographical records for many supporting players of the 1909-1915 era are sparse; what survives in the historical ledger is often the cardboard itself, which fixes the player in time and team even when the fuller arc of his life is no longer recoverable. This particular catalog entry corresponds to the card variant identified as "Foster Boston Amer".