What happened to baseball cards in the 1920's?

[rhettyeakley]

I am a big fan of the 1920's cards so I may be a bit biased but I don't really feel like they were as neglected as the perception is today. There were quite a few sets produced but they are generally viewed by today's standards as being "boring" especially when compared to the crazy boom from 1909-1911 and then the "Gum Card" era of the 1930's. In reality there are quite a few "dead years" in baseball card history... 1918-1920 are perhaps the worst years for baseball cards, which is a shame because who wouldn't want more Black Sox cards? 1924-1926 would be a pretty close 2nd but at least you have the Exhibit sets those years

I think one of the biggest reasons for the somewhat "boring" 1920's sets is actually the advances in photography and the world's ability to capture real "ACTION PHOTOGRAPHY" which prior to 1910 was pretty much impossible and even between 1910-1915 was not easy to do. Thus, in the 1915-1930 era the consumer wanted action photos of their favorite ballplayers and not the old-fashioned and sometimes cartoonish lithography of the previous era.