Player/Type Collections

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Thursday, April 10, 2025

April 2025 progress update: #5 type collection now at 90%+

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This blog's type collection targets sets with at least one card numbered five from baseball's majors, minors, and foreign issues of ...
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Thursday, February 27, 2025

1949-50 World Wide Gum NHL Ice Stars Wrappers #5, Milton "Milt" Schmidt

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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...
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

1973 Topps Baseball #273 Chris Speier, Photo Identified from July 15, 1972

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Many baseball card blogs from our hobby's history cover the full, eccentric range of 1973 Topps photography. Many card shots originate f...
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Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Baseball Backgrounds : 1981's Weird Year and 1982 Reggie's Reflection Redux

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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...
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Sunday, December 22, 2024

Baseball Backgrounds : Reggie Jackson's Glasses on 1982 Topps #300

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Last week, I got into a Bluesky chat over the reflection in Reggie's glasses on 1982 Topps card #300. New York often wore these pregame...
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Thursday, November 21, 2024

Top 5 Deep Cut Cards for Immaculate Grid

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The Immaculate Grid encourages you to remember all kinds of team-specific trivia otherwise lost to the sands of time. When you're steepe...
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Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Baseball TTM from Richard Billings (Dec 1972 Sport Grafica cover story)

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How many of these Sport Grafica magazines are still around? At least one I picked up from eBay to feed my research into  Grafica  winter le...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2024

1972-73 Sport Grafico Venezuelan Winter League Baseball #5, Manny (J. Marcano) Trillo

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The deeper I look into 1970s baseball, the more its collectibles reflect an era of complex regional relationships for sports and its fans. T...
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