NNO Doc Casey

NNO Doc Casey 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 E101 Anonymous Set of 50 issue. The E101 Anonymous Set of 50 issue belongs to the so-called caramel-card category — small color cards distributed as premiums in candy boxes during the deadball era. 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 "NNO Doc Casey".