Louisville, Kentucky’s Cris Dishman was a standout wide receiver at St. Francis DeSales High school. The former wideout was a two time Kentucky All-State team member. Dishman played collegiately at Purdue University, where he was transitioned to the defensive side of the ball, becoming a member of the All-Big Ten Team in 1987. He also laced up the track spikes and ran the … [Read more...]
Shop Talk: T-Mall Fall, Flawless Football, Tom Brady Score
As often as I can, I like to pull back the curtain and share insight with our readers as far as what goes on behind the scenes at a sports card shop in current times.A few months back, we had the opportunity to purchase 2020 Prizm Football T-Mall from one of our generous vendors. Well, in the current market nearly every sports card release sells well. Also, the current state … [Read more...]
Shop Talk: New Releases, Shipping Frenzy and Dreaming of Upper Deck
It was a great week for our little sports card shop here in Central PA. It was a great week for sports cards in general. The owner was away on a vacation all week which meant for a hellacious amount of shipping for yours truly but beyond that, there were a number of really fun sports card releases to look forward to checking out during my moments of downtime. 2021 … [Read more...]
Card Back Q&A: Kevin Mench Talks Hat Size, Mike Schmidt, Grandfather’s Influence
As we showed you last week in our conversation with former big league slugger Kevin Mench, he has quite the memorabilia room. The power-hitting Mench spent 2002-2010 in the major leagues and also played in Japan for a year. He once belted a home run in seven consecutive games. In the latest edition of Card Back Q&A, we chatted about the baseball cards he was … [Read more...]
Kevin Mench Q&A: Phillies Fandom, Memorable Fans and Memorabilia Collection
The Wilmington, Delaware born Kevin Mench had an outstanding high school career at The Independence School and St. Mark’s High School in Delaware. Mench stayed in state and attended the University of Delaware. He led the Blue Hens to NCAA Tournament appearances in both 1998 and 1999. In 1998, the slugger led the nation with 33 homers, drove in 72 runs and was named the … [Read more...]
Shop Talk: Investing in Junk
Here's a sentence I never thought I'd write. After spending years and years passing on every late 1980s and early 90s collection or stack of unopened boxes that walked into the shop, we've recently made a concerted effort to start stocking some of it. While I can't go quite so far as to scream "the junk wax era is back, baby!," we've actually spent time … [Read more...]
Shop Talk: Waiting Hours Outside Target for Cards? Count Me Out
This week's Shop Talk finds itself piggybacking of sorts off of last week's topic of retail sports card madness.Dave, one of our long-time customers, is known to make the trek out in the wild and try to track down sports cards all over creation. We spoke to him this week and he informed us that he went to our local Target at 3:45 in the morning-- yes, you read that right-- to … [Read more...]
Ricky Pierce Q&A: Signing Autographs in High School, Massive Television Room, Finishing Games
Ricky Pierce was a high school basketball standout at Garland High School in Garland, Texas. After finishing high school, he went to Walla Walla Community College before eventually transferring to Rice University in 1979. The sharpshooter was drafted in the first round of the 1982 NBA Draft by the Detroit Pistons. After not seeing much playing time as a rookie, the 6'4 … [Read more...]
Shop Talk: Prizm, Pre Sales and Power Slams
The sun was shining nearly every day last week and so were the new Prizm basketball cards. Sales have been phenomenal--so much so that we even had a group of young guys come in earlier this week and tell us war stories about trying to find the elusive beast out in the wild in retail locations. We've all heard the stories by now about lines of people 20 to 30 deep … [Read more...]
Shop Talk: Prizm Pulls, Short on Supplies and the Easter Bunny
In-store business was still going full force this week in the lead up to the Easter holiday. We sell RC cars and parts from Traxxas, Horizon and other lines. We had a banner week this week for such items. The area is completely out of my personal wheelhouse but the owner is big into it and is incredibly knowledgeable, so it works out.If you're involved in sports cards at all, … [Read more...]