Player/Type Collections

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Sunday, December 28, 2014

1973 Topps "1953 Baseball Stars" (aka 1953 Reprints) #5, Hal Newhouser

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Let's start today's entry by saying farewell to Sy Berger (1923-2014), whose guiding hand in what "baseball cards" mean to...
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Friday, November 28, 2014

1926 W512 Strip Card Baseball #5, Glen (Glenn) Wright

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I want to think Mr. Wright looks mean here. Someone threw a pitch at his head, called his puppy an insulting name, or said his nose looked l...
Sunday, November 16, 2014

1920 W516 and W529 Boxing #5, Lou (Lew) Tendler

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Despite the low-grade condition of most strip cards, a repeated appearance of Babe Ruth in the #5 slot made those type acquisitions more cos...
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Thursday, October 16, 2014

1957 Topps Baseball Wantlist (COMPLETED Oct 23, 2014)

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This post tracked progress on a Good-to-VG set of 1957 Topps. Like many OBC members, I started with a low-grade, Poor-Fair set, and later up...
Monday, October 6, 2014

The Baseball Connection to 1920s British Cigarette Cards

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We're not done looking at my incoming wave of British cigarette type cards, not by a long shot. This time, I'm including recent arri...
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Sunday, September 21, 2014

More #5s From U.K. Cigarette Packs : Flags, Flora, Fauna, and French-born Kings

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Last time in the blog, I thanked OBC trading friend Glenn for an excellent stack of UK cigarette cards  that covered a variety of subjects a...
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Monday, September 15, 2014

1930s British Cigarette Cards : Models and ships! Limpets and Sharks! Borzois and bad driving!

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If you collect modern Allen & Ginter cards, it can seem baffling how Topps finds so many random subjects to turn into one "normal...
Sunday, August 24, 2014

1962 LIFE Magazine (and Post Cereal) Baseball #5, Mickey Mantle

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After Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris's spell-binding race to break Ruth's single-season HR record in 1961, Post Cereal went all-out p...