Number 5 Type Collection

A long chain of events, fortunate and unfortunate, led me to factory outlet shopping in Lee, MA, over the weekend. I parked our car and turn...

Intro for my latest at the SABR Baseball Cards blog I enjoy picking apart hard-to-explain details of vintage cards to see where that journey...

While my type collection might never include this hobby rarity, it deserves a profile on its own merits and for those of its subject, Dave B...

This Honey Boy set exists thanks to an ideal confluence of circumstances: baseball's growing popularity at all levels, recent success fo...

Starting in 1972, TCMA found growing success with direct-to-collector sets built from their collection of vintage baseball photo negatives a...

It took me several years to track down today's oddball #5, thanks on one hand to its small-scale production and on the other to its nich...

The story so far My past posts about the Universal Toy & Novelty Company covered their ten-card strips of boxers and American presidents...

As best I can tell, baseball existed in Cuba as long as Cuba and baseball each existed. Its professional league started in 1878, just two ye...

Been away from this blog too long and yet still close to our hobby! This post covers my week at Chicago's 2021 National Sports Collector...