Number 5 Type Collection

After 100-plus years of MLB card sets from tobacco and candy companies, one forgets how few releases exist for teams that played in America...

I don't often get to write about pros who never played the American game, so Minoru Nakamura's arrival was my first big hit for 2015...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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