Number 5 Type Collection

Right now, my hair looks a lot like Skip's on this single-A Dodgers card and that's why I scheduled a haircut for 5:30pm. Maybe they...

If there's one boogeyman of low-budget set production like TCMA offered to a growing roster of minor league franchises, it's editing...

I've seen today's playing card set throughout my two decades of collecting, often mixed into odds-and-ends quarter boxes at shows or...

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 ...

Starting in 1976 and returning in 1985, Topps honored father and son duos with subsets picturing both dads on older sets and sons as current...

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...

This young Kenneth Feinberg ("e," not "u") spent three years in Iowa and California pursuing his dream of pro ball, coll...

TCMA didn't snap today's shot on a baseball diamond, unusual for the "surprise, it's a camera" approach often taken in...