Number 5 Type Collection

In the mid-60s, advanced collector and sometimes-dealer Frank Nagy published one of the first collecting magazines,  Sport Hobbyist . It fit...

A while back, I broke down the 1950-70s Venezuelan sets that started as Topps partnerships and evolved into local knockoffs of American issu...

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...