Number 5 Type Collection

Thanks to all for reading (or at least paging through) my 30 articles in 30 days during National Blog Posting Month. It did include (*cough*...

Today's photo catches Seaver right off 1969's Amazing Mets championship season and his own NL Cy Young award. Tom Terrific went on t...

Few modern collectors know of the Nu-Card company, who made a handful of sport sets in 1960 and 1961. Both of their baseball issues ("H...

As you might guess by the name, Topps kicked off Bazooka brand gum following World War II. News coverage and Hollywood movies of that era f...

For most collectors, baseball means stackable, sortable 2" by 3" rectangles of cardboard. Topps prints an apparently unending supp...

TCMA printed this direct-to-collectors set of (then) living players with a blank box for autographs, encouraging fans to mail out or seek si...

Back in 2008, I wrote up one of Bob Laughlin's most colorful sets, a 32-player "Diamond Jubilee" collection honoring the Ameri...

Wheaties published a pair of "how to" panel sets in 1936, one called "How to Star in Baseball" and today's, "Ho...

Today's #5 tracks the genesis of protective masks for catching, first donned by Harvard's backstop for a cross-state game in 1877. C...

When Wheaties starting signing players to endorsement contracts in 1934, they certainly hoped for a future where their cereal and "spor...