Number 5 Type Collection

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

Intro for my latest at the SABR Baseball Cards blog I enjoy picking apart hard-to-explain details of vintage cards to see where that journey...

Back at the end of WWII, the closure of wartime industry meant the return of resources key to the making of baseball cards: paper for cards ...

Back before my dad's time, one Philadelphia company served as America's premiere gum card maker, creating a multitude of sets spanni...

If you wrote a book about Goudey Gum's 1930s trading card sets, at least one chapter would talk about the many,  many times they squeez...

Hank Aaron, Jim "Toy Cannon" Wynn, Ron Santo, and Willie McCovey? This who's-who of late-60s power hitters holds a special pl...

A while back, I broke down the 1950-70s Venezuelan sets that started as Topps partnerships and evolved into local knockoffs of American issu...

Eureka, it's a stamp! This 200-count set of MLB players stands out for two reasons. Most prominent are the full-color, Kodachrome photos...