Number 5 Type Collection

2015 vintage card forums continue to bustle with gossip and check-ins, as collectors take the temperature of what their market likes on a re...

With the loosening of Amerca's decades-old Cuban travel and trade embargo on our horizon, I dusted off a dormant entry for one of my typ...

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...