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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

Baseball was booming around 1908 to 1912... THAT is the reason. The popularity of baseball drove the tobacco and candy folks to print cards, not the court litigation. The antitrust litigation is what did away with the tobacco cards.

Look at the huge increase in minor league teams in 1908 and 1909. Attendance was up across the nation, in most large and small cities there was a baseball team.

The cards were printed because of public appetite and interest for them.




Hmmmm.... Horrors of War was printed when interest was high for that. Not many World War II cards being printed today... But we may well get inundated with Hannah Montana cards.