Number 5 Type Collection

Born November 8, 1907, baseball lifer and the Dodgers first All-Star, Tony Cuccinello. Cuccinello made that seminal appearance at Comis...

The last of three Boston Garter baseball sets released between 1912 and 1914 is an apparent step down from their larger, hand-colored issues...

A century ago, it was customary for all players to wear "high socks," double-covering their lower legs with white under-stockings ...

Back from an off-season European vacation to Lisbon and boy are my Portugals tired. October's a good time to visit Portugal, if you...

As of this writing, it was just ten years ago that Major League Baseball, then collective owners of Montreal's Expos, sent the squad to ...

Born today in in 1949, veteran pitcher Don Hood. (His mustache followed just 3 years later.) The fact that Hood spent time back in AAA ...

Born today in 1969 1965, Orlando Hernandez, half-brother of Livan and son of Cuba. El Duque hit the Yankees in a big way in 1998, as t...

Infamous (notable, notorious, revered, reviled, etc.) dictator and baseball fan Fidel Castro would've been just 21 years old when this s...

I'll never get tired of the Tucson Toros, thanks in large part to their infamous 1980 toreador uniforms. But you know who else felt that...

Thanks to the long list of nominees for my fifth anniversary giveaway theme, Almost, But Not Quite . They covered the gamut from famous to p...