Number 5 Type Collection

Bob Jones the ball player or Bob Jones, your dad's bowling friend? Bob Jones could be anyone at first glance, so it's worth reading ...

Welcome a new baseball holiday for 2015: I christened May 5 as Pinky May Day, given its nice confluence of fives. Pinky played third ba...

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...