Number 5 Type Collection

For all the bicentennial bunting used on its 1976 cards ( #5 Dave Roberts profile ), Caruso returned to a more familiar black and white in 1...

I like it when cards get a little ostentatious, going the extra mile to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, as the saying goes. Let...

Louisville's hosted baseball since before a bat rolled out of Bud Hillerich's woodshop and into Pete Browning's hands (1884,  co...

Hey there! I'm Sam, and is this a great day for baseball or what? How about a game of pepper and a non-cola soft drink? If "Sa...

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...