Number 5 Type Collection

Following my luck with dollar boxes during the 2017 National Sports Collectors Convention in Chicago, I'm trying a new kind of blog give...

Gonna sneak this post in before game 7 ends to avoid the rush. :-) Remember this guy? I sure do. WHO WON:   My recent World Series gi...

Lots of great submissions in last Friday's freshman name contest . Let's catch them in a rundown. Didi Gregorius , Reds SS (Greg ...

Now that we're safely into September, it's time to discuss one of my favorite baseball things, player names . Each new roster e...

Fellow blogger Fuji's running a "favorite card" survey  over at his Chronicles that asks readers to pick their top vintage or ...

Thanks to all thirty-eight people who entered last week's contest and every one who reads my blog. A search through the card box turned ...

Thanks for all the entries so far in my Fourth Anniversary Giveaway ! The contest ends Friday, so there's about 30 hours left to throw y...

The first #5 type card profile went up four years ago yesterday. Big, cardboard-y thanks all who've read my blog, follow tweets @ Number...

Six readers entered last week's final spring training giveaway for a fistful of Twins cards, including stars like Puckett and Killebrew....

...because, like Crazy Eddie, my prices are INSANE. Baseball cards qualify as "home entertainment," right? Just look at the t...

Let's not beat around a bush with these giveaways. It's time to send someone several dozen Yankee cards. As with the first give...

Thanks to fellow bloggers  Ryan G  ( Cardboard Zoo ) and  Matt ( Tenets of Wilson ) for adding their stories to my St. Louis Cardinals give...

Congrats again to the Birds on the Bat on their 11th championship. My Missourah-based aunt didn't send a commemorative six-pack of Budw...

Added two more wantlists to my player collection last night and posted links to all four on the blog sidebar, just below "Top 5 Posts....

After some card reorganization yesterday, I confront an insoluble problem: my dupes box contains way too many 1973 Topps. We're talking ...

Thanks to everyone who nominated card goofs for last week's contest ! Here's your roll call of infamy. Spiegel83: Billy Ripken...

Soon after this year's National Sports Collectors Convention in Chicago, I won an eBay lot of R346 Blue Tints. This obscure 1948 set...