Saturday, June 25, 2011

State of the #5 Type Collection

After posting my 500th article last week, I wondered how many number fives remain to write about. After all, it only took 3 years to get this far. Are there enough sets to last much longer? Will I have to start collecting number sixes by 2014? (Ha ha, not gonna happen.)

I'll stick with #5 Ted Williams, thanks

Here are the pre-1981 numbered sets to cover, broken down by decade. (Links jump to all posts from that era.)

That leaves 150+ set profiles and other topics to cover, like polls, giveaways, and comments on managerial shenanigans. (Oh Jim Riggleman, will you ever find a team that just wants you for you?) Should be good for another couple of years! *Phew*

To say thanks for reading along, here's Chewbacca throwing out a first pitch.

My strategy's to let the Wookiee win

5 comments:

Ryan G said...

If you expand to unnumbered sets (and thus pick the fifth card listed in a checklist, etc) you should have somewhere around 2500 sets through 1980. That should keep you busy for a lifetime!

Keep up the good work. Even though I just finally discovered your blog a week or so ago, I've already referenced it at least twice in posts.

Six Degrees of Ron Santo said...

Another approach to expand on the concept would be to collect players who wore #5. Dimagio, Bench, Brooks Robinson, Killebrew, early Hank Aarons......

Not a bad number to collect.

Ryan G said...

Collecting #5 players is a great idea. And you don't have to deal with the insanity that is Topps Mickey Mantle with #7.

AdamE said...

If you run out of #5 up to 1980 you can just start expanding newer by a year. If you did all #5 cards up until current you would have 10s of thousands of card to write about.

Matthew Glidden said...

I've picked up a bunch of post-1980 #5s over the years, so that's definitely possible. Can't complain about the uniform numbers, either...