Number 5 Type Collection

May 12 update: here's what remains for baseball teams, plus SI for Kids sports stacks sneaking in from my younger brother's old col...

My favorite movie theater, The Brattle  (Cambridge, MA), holds a special place in movie history thanks to their deep well of cinema knowledg...

This close-up batting portrait shows Japanese veteran Kyosuke Sasaki in the colorful, Expos-like uniform for one of Osaka's two teams of...

I post #BucketCards from time-to-time on my @number5typecard Bluesky account as distinctive or meaningful poses from a wide range of sets....

Stereoviews, explained well here , drove most of the card market for 50+ years (1860s-1920s), pushing the bounds for what viewers expected f...

This blog's type collection targets sets with at least one card numbered five from baseball's majors, minors, and foreign issues of ...

My main goal remains to finish a collection of baseball #5s, but Oh Boy , some other sports prove too interesting to ignore! Many prewar co...

Many baseball card blogs from our hobby's history cover the full, eccentric range of 1973 Topps photography. Many card shots originate f...

Last time, I looked deep into Reggie Jackson's glasses on 1982 Topps #300, searching for that man within. That other guy wore a light u...