Number 5 Type Collection

As this blog first profiled in April 2009, the 1968 Atlantic Oil set mixed baseball players with McDonald's style game piece matching t...

Last year, I started work on 60s Bazooka sets, including the (already profiled) 1960 baseball and 1963 All-Time Greats . Collecting cards o...

I think Frank Robinson loves baseball more than Cheez-Its love orange food coloring. Already one of the all-time best players, he took over...

Greg of Night Owl Cards sent this four-pack of UV-era #5s last week, augmenting the shiny section of my type collection. 1989 Bowman #5...

Soda companies use baseball for any number of promotional tie-ins, both today and over the sport's history . Today, Coca-Cola bottles in...

Today’s guest looks lost in a fugue beneath the unknown security of an earflap-less helmet. Based on fan count, the photographer shot this m...

In the expansion-era 1960s, large numbers of players changed teams by trade or draft. Only a few true superstars put on new uniforms during ...

Joe Dobson placed #54 on a 2007 blogger list of top 100 all-time Red Sox , between 3-time World Series champ Duffy Lewis and 1967 Cy Young ...

We covered the American version of this classic Topps issue one year ago today , but Wally Moon's monobrow deserves a second look. Did t...

Some time ago, this blog profiled an odd-looking Ty Cobb card with the opaque American Card Catalog number of W516-2-1 . For a player who ...