Number 5 Type Collection

In 2013, a Net54baseball.com collector shared this photo of an uncut test sheet from the middle of National Chicle's 1934-36 "Diam...

Sometimes when I'm down, I remember Bobby Doerr ( our oldest living HOFer, now 99 ) started his pro career in 1934. ...when this g...

HAPPY Happy Chandler served a long life in politics and earned a Cooperstown nod as MLB's second Commissioner of Baseball. As coda ...

Louisiana! Home to endless choices for great food, great music, and Joanie on the Pony . Louisiana! Erstwhile home to one of those food choi...

The 1930s produced great vintage sets, including some of my favorite individual cards. 1933 Goudey #155, Joe Judge Those blue lines a...

I recently asked Twitter, are these cards ? Computer-driven graphics hadn't taken over sports coverage in the 1970s and 80s, so TV ...

Gonna sneak this post in before game 7 ends to avoid the rush. :-) Remember this guy? I sure do. WHO WON:   My recent World Series gi...

I will guess that it's been a year-plus since I gave cards away on this site, which is a year-plus too long. Let's turn this World S...

This Bowman PCL type card comes from the sort of set that tilts me to extravagance. It's been a white whale in the hunting, vanishing fu...

This is my wrap-up for the 2016 National and what I brought back with me. It's not all in the binders  yet, but some things take time. ...