Number 5 Type Collection

Hey, it's another leaders card ! Topps limited it to each league's top banana, however, and this pair of guys couldn't be more d...

Numbering a set seemed an afterthought at the dawn of baseball's card era. Companies printed them as promotional materials, like banks m...

This card kind of creeps me out, so it'll go by as quickly as possible. Card front Card back 1948 saw the release of The Babe Ruth S...

It's not made of unusual materials or packaged with ice cream , but the GAD Fun Cards set is certainly an oddball. No photos, just sket...

Enough of the #5s for now, it's time for a adrenaline rush of brand new cards! This year's Allen & Ginter design and contents v...

As we now know, the Ryan Express just got started by fanning 300 batters in a season for the third year in a row. He had help, of course, an...

TCMA published a ton of oddball sets during the 1970s and 1980s. Most of them used vintage black-and-white photos to construct "theme...

This last card of the great Whitey's career includes a curious pitching pose. With his upper body released forward and legs oddly at res...

Today's owner of an excellent sporting name, "Rip" Repulski, also knew how to ride baseball's trade winds. Six years into ...

Witness my decidedly low-grade #5 Leaf card, procured from eBay for around $20. A complete version of the card includes white borders all t...