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Spike Glidden
@number5typecard.bsky.social
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Baseball and trading card hobby writer, creator and researcher of Number5TypeCollection.com. Vice Chair of SABR baseball cards events committee. #GOMS. As for my house, we will serve Humpy the Salmon.
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a melange, a medley, a pastiche #CardSky
Mixed sports and non-sports trading cards laid out on a grey surface. There are 1957 baseball players and military figures and a racehorse.
November 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Veterans Day salute to 1941 Goudey #1 Hugh Mulcahy, who served four seasons across what could've been the prime of his career, like so many others. #CardSky
Baseball trading card of Phillies pitcher Hugh Mulcahy, which shows a footnote reading, "First major leaguer to be drafted in U. S. Army." This fit the context of Americans who supported joining WWII on the side of the Allies.
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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BJK signed my Sportscaster and I love the result. Royalty on top of royalty. #CardSky
Autographed trading card of tennis player Billie Jean King. She’s playing a match in gear typical of the 1970s.
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Mark your calendars for December 10 for another SABR Baseball Cards Player Collection Spotlight. Focus is NY/NJ.

🔹Larry Doby
🔹Carl Hubbell
🔹Derek Jeter

Co-hosted by @thelensofdonnam.bsky.social and @sabrelysian.bsky.social. Moderated by @number5typecard.bsky.social.
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November 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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We got one sweet boi last week and will add a second sweet boi tonight. At this rate, I will be wearing a Sliwa beret by Xmas.
close up of a tabby brown and grey cat being scratched by a pale hand Republican New York City mayoral candidate in his red beret and jacket, kissing a brown tabby cat wrapped in a protective blanket
November 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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My absolute weakness when composing sentences remains alliteration & assonance. I have noticed that my brain pronounces "alliteration & assonance" as if it includes both _a_lliter_a_tion & _a_sson_a_nce of its own.
November 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Throwback to George Brace's direct-to-collector "Bra-Mac" colorized photos, which contain terrific 1930s candids & remain challenging to catalog in full. www.number5typecollection.com/2020/01/1974... #CardSky
1974 Bra-Mac 1931 Philadelphia Athletics baseball #5, Al Simmons
George Brace spent sixty-five years of his life behind the camera lens at Chicago ballparks. He shot players at almost every Cubs and White ...
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November 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Spotted today, 1942 sales receipt for cases of Goudey's Big League Gum, their long-running baseball product. Most likely to be "remainders" of cards first printed in 1941 or 1938. #CardSky
1942 sales receipt from the Goudey Gum Company for 40 boxes of Big League Gum trading cards, dated to July 29 and stamped as paid in August to St. Louis-based William F. Brockmeyer.
November 3, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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A special pickup today, original Bob Laughlin art that he matted and labeled for display! #CardSky
Hand drawn Jim Thorpe baseball card, matted next to its original art Handwritten label for Bob Laughlin baseball card from 1974 fleer
November 2, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Sunny said that quote "busting makes her feel good" unquote
A pale blonde woman dressed as a Ghostbuster and waving the nozzle of her proton pack at a number of ghosts hung outside for Halloween
November 1, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Cat Vonnegut, Jr. says it’ll be a big year for the Sox in 2026
Tabby cat lying on its back and exposing its belly Tabby cat stretching its claws out and grabbing onto the toe of a Red Sox-branded slipper
October 30, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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This amazing variety awaited my return from overseas. Where does one begin? #cardsky
A large variety of trading cards spread across my desk. Some are baseball and others are various non sport.
October 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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the menu text too tiny vibes
A woman looking at her food menu through a zoomed camera on her mobile phone. I added an unhappy puppy face over her normal face to communicate the unhappiness she feels at being forced to do this just to order food
October 23, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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“To his immeasurable credit, Babe Ruth felt a great kinship with the unfortunate and the sick.” - Schoolboy Waite Hoyt (Babe Ruth in a Giants uniform pictured with John McGraw at an exhibition fundraiser)
Babe Ruth in a New York Giants uniform, standing next to Giants manager John McGraw, in an overcoat, hat and tie, both with their hands on their knees, in a baseball dugout.
October 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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I learned about mister "my vegeance will destroy the White House" just last week & suddenly it's relevant American history.
Museum display profiling the Royal Hussar service of Sir George De Lacy Evans, who fought in a number of conflicts on behalf of the British crown. This includes trying to burn down the American capital as revenge for an American attack in Toronto. Museum display profiling the Royal Hussar service of Sir George De Lacy Evans, who fought in a number of conflicts on behalf of the British crown. This includes trying to burn down the American congress building, now the White House, as revenge for an American attack in Toronto.
October 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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T222 Fatima tobacco of HOF Frank Chance about to break some fingers bunting! attn @buntwaxera.bsky.social #CardSky
Baseball card of Frank Chance of the Yankees in a bunting position from the right side. He's holding the bat carelessly with fingers exposed to the incoming pitch, so is likely demonstrating for a photo and not really expecting a ball thrown his way.
October 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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I passed this Amsterdam canal boat right as KYE's episode reached its conversation on confed imagery. Dukes of Hazzard remains more insidious than you might imagine!
A small canal boat in Amsterdam painted to resemble the General Lee car from the Dukes of Hazzard TV show.
October 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Wallet card: short king in the land of Dutch giants. #CardSky
1971 Topps card of shortstop Freddie Patek held in front of a window that overlooks an Amsterdam canal
October 22, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Cutie on my Amsterdam morning walk
Small black and brown cat in a window
October 22, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Because the Tigers & Hawks will face off in the upcoming Japan Series, I'll share a pair of cards from the 1979 TCMA Japanese baseball set (Note that the Hawks were the Nankai Hawks then, they're the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks now)
1979 TCMA Japanese Baseball card of Hanshin Tigers pitcher Don Blasingame 1979 TCMA Japanese Baseball card of Nankai Hawks outfielder Carlos May
October 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Realized today I'm near where Chet Baker died in Amsterdam & located the memorial marker. "He will live on in his music for anyone willing to listen and feel." My dad played him often and I love a bunch of Chet's work.
Memorial marker for musician and singer Chet Baker, posted outside a hotel in central Amsterdam. It shows him playing his trumpet, with an inscription I added to this post.
October 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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100% trying to blot out last night's baseball agony with Tilda Swinton exhibition & Amsterdam public art
Small booklet titled "Artistic Licence" that shows a photo of young Tilda Swinton, with her own signature and a date range reading "now until then." Tilda Swinton posing in front of a black and white sketch by the portrait artist John Singer Sargent. The portrait shows a woman in Tilda's family from the early 20th century. Tilda's hair is cut short and colored white. Dense and overlapping wall of graffiti that shows some recognizable elements, including a knockoff of Banksy's girl reaching for a balloon string. Colorful wall and ceiling art that shows the Amsterdam city shield on one wall and a dense aquatic mosaic covering the ceiling. A bright chandelier hangs from the ceiling.
October 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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clease the timeline and the brain
two white flowers with a bee resting on one of them several bright purplish flowers with a bee feeding on one of them
October 20, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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1958 program for record-breaking West End performance of Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap” on red silk to honor the occasion. It is now at over 30,000 performances! Displayed by the V&A in London.
A red silk program for the play The Mousetrap, honoring its status as longest running West End production. As of 2025, it’s now over 30k shows!
October 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Sunset view from a 23rd floor #ManchesterUK
View of central Manchester UK under a partly cloudy sky from a 23rd floor, offering a broad view of many buildings into the distance. View of central Manchester UK under a partly cloudy sky from a 23rd floor, offering a broad view of many buildings into the distance. A line of sunshine illuminates a line of buildings near the horizon.
October 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM