Number 5 Type Collection

By the 1940s, America saw baseball cards as a kid-and-candy product, but other countries still marketed them with tobacco and another "...

This entry was my first profile for 1967 Topps Venezuelan baseball. I've since updated and reposted it as part of a full series about th...

This photo shows Mr. Reinbach dressed in "generic baseball uniform," topped with "typical cap," and sporting a "sta...

Thanks to everyone who voted in last week's poll , "should I create a high-res archive of #5 type card images?" Got answers fo...

Though technically a mini-poster, great composition and lighting make this portrait my favorite Yaz card. It comes appropriately from his Tr...

The #5 type collection currently contains a few hundred examples and about 85% of known numbered, pre-1980 sets. Players range in fame from ...

30 Helens Agree: "It's hard to beat a vintage Babe Ruth card." This #5 still looks hale and hearty, though a previous owner...

As the tobacco era of baseball cards waned, candy and snack makers stepped in with similar cross-promotional ideas. Cracker Jack , already i...

Mark of the eponymous blog Mark's Ephemera recently sent a nice package of #5s and its plethora of years, sports, and types looked like...

Like the recent 1939 Wheaties Series 12 profile, General Mills published today's "set" as a group of box panels during 1940. ...