Spike Glidden
@number5typecard.bsky.social
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.
We joked about personality types during pack-rip night at #SABR54 and I am definitely not ENFJ, because I am GWRBI.
BlueSky could require alt text on images and that would shape community without any political bent the same way that OXO can openers are easier for everyone because they got them big handles
This Reggie is one of my favorites because it's clearly taken upon return from 1981's player strike. Several Topps images were taken during prep for that All-Star game. www.number5typecollection.com/2024/12/base...
Baseball Backgrounds : Reggie Jackson's Glasses on 1982 Topps #300
Last week, I got into a Bluesky chat over the reflection in Reggie's glasses on 1982 Topps card #300. New York often wore these pregame war...
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⚾️ slides pack.....rips wax ⚾️
Members who missed the fun in Cleveland can still receive a 2026 Burdick Award card featuring Gary Cieradkowski. Head to the blog for details.
SABR 54 Cards Committee Recap
As seems to be the case every year, the annual SABR convention was an absolute blast! For any event of this magnitude, much of the success is the result of hard work, careful planning, and talented…
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Everyone wants to make debate sites. I don't want to debate. I want to make my silly posts about baseball players' names sounding like boob and who is handsome and how I just learned Joey Votto is taking math classes bc he failed high school math and hates failing at anything
how did he make it to CEO without knowing we're a gecko chamber not an echo chamber
Smiling Gecko Sticks Out Its Tongue
Alt: Animated GIF of a pale and smiling gecko who sticks out its tongue at you repeatedly
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Folks I won’t tell you not to feel your feelings, but this is rage bait. He’s talking about expanding beyond politics into things like live sports.
I wrote about the launch of the WPBL and the #SABR54 watch party of the opening game. whyilikebaseball.com/wpbl-opening...
The one I remember most is them setting the menu for a dinner in her honor, just because it seems so mundane, but a reminder that famous people still have to do mundane things. As an aside, I wrote about her last trip to Cleveland for @clevelandmag.bsky.social
Cleveland Played a Part in Amelia Earhart's Final Flight
Five days before her Northeast Ohio visit in 1937, the acclaimed pilot announced her intentions to be the first woman to fly around the world.
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Bunting cards bring people together. 👇
I don't know how many will agree with me that bunting is the grandest play in baseball, but I know who will: @buntwaxera.bsky.social. I thought that I was alone with cards featuring players bunting, but I was wrong, and it brought something good along the way. #MLBfi medium.com/beyond-the-s...
My 12-card Cleveland set is now available for those who like Joe Jackson and other cool cards. See & read about it here and then ping me or use the order link on the page. notablebaseballsubjects.com/cleveland/ #CardSky
Cleveland — Notable Base-Ball Subjects
The Cleveland set is the first public card release in the Notable Subjects series, a 12-card trading-card set in the tradition of the 1914 T222 Fatima cards.
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Sunday #SABR54 casual pics: Cleveland is full of oversized guitars, with Ramones in the Hilton lobby. Five of us took in President Garfield's memorial and crypt on a cloudy afternoon. The downtown Arcade still has its baseball art, each piece more fun than the last.
Visited the International Women's Air and Space Museum today. Its Amelia Earhart display reminded me of her original Sky Birds card art and signed baseball I've seen in other places. #CardSky
Ah yes, I nod, of course I knew that Post showed Bjork wearing a jacket made of postal materials, yes yes fierce nodding
If you miss the Cleveland arcade art show during #SABR54 then you missed something that makes @thelensofdonnam.bsky.social extremely happy
Tonight's first PWBL game inspired new rally caps from me and @heavyjstudios.bsky.social (LA did indeed mount a late-game comeback thanks in part to all the weather-related chaos-ball)
The color of the sky in Seattle is dark pastel blue #7b94cd
A massive gum stain on 1991 Topps? No effing way. Who is this? Steve Effing Jeltz? No way. No effing way. #CardSky
Upon further review, thinking the Vizquel 1991 card co-stars Dave Clark and his Dave Clark Slide #CardSky
Flew into Cleveland this morning with Superman for some SABR and some Guardians baseball
Ugly baseball cards are beautiful on the inside and I’m tired of hearing otherwise
What is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?