Player/Type Collections

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Friday, December 19, 2025

The Natural: Honoring Robert Redford, Eddie Waitkus, and the Sandlots of Cambridge

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My favorite movie theater, The Brattle  (Cambridge, MA), holds a special place in movie history thanks to their deep well of cinema knowledg...
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Monday, July 28, 2025

1979 Calbee Japanese Baseball #5, Kyosuke Sasaki

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This close-up batting portrait shows Japanese veteran Kyosuke Sasaki in the colorful, Expos-like uniform for one of Osaka's two teams of...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Bucket Cards: Five Lesser-Known Babe Ruths

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I post #BucketCards from time-to-time on my @number5typecard Bluesky account as distinctive or meaningful poses from a wide range of sets....
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Thursday, May 29, 2025

1900s Stereoview sports scenes: #5 "Resting" - #61 "A Sacrifice Hit" (Yale?) - #73 "The Embryo Golfer"

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Stereoviews, explained well here , drove most of the card market for 50+ years (1860s-1920s), pushing the bounds for what viewers expected f...
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Thursday, April 10, 2025

April 2025 progress update: #5 type collection now at 90%+

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This blog's type collection targets sets with at least one card numbered five from baseball's majors, minors, and foreign issues of ...
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Thursday, February 27, 2025

1949-50 World Wide Gum NHL Ice Stars Wrappers #5, Milton "Milt" Schmidt

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My main goal remains to finish a collection of baseball #5s, but Oh Boy , some other sports prove too interesting to ignore! Many prewar co...
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

1973 Topps Baseball #273 Chris Speier, Photo Identified from July 15, 1972

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Many baseball card blogs from our hobby's history cover the full, eccentric range of 1973 Topps photography. Many card shots originate f...
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Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Baseball Backgrounds : 1981's Weird Year and 1982 Reggie's Reflection Redux

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Last time, I looked deep into Reggie Jackson's glasses on 1982 Topps #300, searching for that man within. That other guy wore a light u...
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