A new sports card and memorabilia shop recently opened in the Milwaukee suburb of West Allis. Owner Brian Boyer brought in a couple of former Brewers for his grand opening over the weekend--during a snowstorm, no less. Boyer calls the business "E-5 Sports"--a jab at his Little League experience as a defensively challenged first baseman. He talked … [Read more...]
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Notes: PWCC’s Trading Card Index; Mathis Talks of Selling Mint Mantle; Old Wrigleyville Shop Survives
PWCC Auctions is set to a launch a trading card value index based on the S&P 500 to evaluate the top 100, 500, and 2,500 trading cards using ten years of auction house data. The Index will be limited to cards that regularly sell at auction and excludes rarities such as the 1909 T206 Honus Wagner, the ever-popular 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle and other iconic issues. The … [Read more...]
Prizes, Snacks, Specials Bring Collectors to National Hobby Shop Day
Some free food, free prizes and other promotions drew collectors into about 40 hobby shops across the U.S. on Saturday. GTS Distribution sponsored the first ever "National Hobby Shop Day", providing autographed memorabilia, supplies, packs and other incentives for collectors to visit a store in advance of the holidays. Some shops provided their own promotions and sales to … [Read more...]
National Hobby Shop Day Set for December 9
Hobby shop owners will be getting some promotional help from GTS Distribution next month. The company that supplies stores with trading cards, supplies and other collectibles has created National Hobby Shop Day, slated for December 9. The in-store event is timed to coincide with a time of year that often sees a lull in traffic between the hype of the Black Friday … [Read more...]
Card Shop Q&A: Dugout Dreams Finds Success with Old and New
In the latest of an ongoing series of Q&A sessions with sports card shop owners, we catch up with Sean O'Rourke of Dugout Dreams at 45 Padanaram Road in Danbury, CT. Tell us a little about the history of your store. I have been here since 1996 over 21 years at a brick and mortar location. We’re on a main road in a small strip mall with ten other … [Read more...]
Car Crashes Through Pennsylvania Card Shop
Sports card shops aren’t known for drive-up service but one shop in Pennsylvania had a car inside its building on Monday. An older woman parked in front of Kel’s Sports Cards in Scott Township near Pittsburgh hit the gas instead of the brake and, well, you probably know what happened next. Her Toyota sedan crashed through the glass storefront about 2 PM and mowed into … [Read more...]
‘Sweet Old Lady’s’ Card Shop Kept Alive By Her Children
She was known as the sweet old lady who ran the baseball card shop in a small West Virginia town that hugs the Ohio River. But Shirley Ann DeQuasie did more than sell cards and supplies for 29 years in Ravenswood. Her store, S&S Baseball Cards & Collectibles, was a gathering place for friends. Shirley would bring homemade “dessert things” to her shop, … [Read more...]
Card Shop Q&A with ‘The Rookie’
There may not be as many sports card shops as there were in the "boom" period of the late 1980s and early 90s but as a recent Facebook thread revealed, there are still plenty of successful stores and collectors who spend time in them. As part of our ongoing series of Q&A sessions with card shops around the country, we connected with Tony Kirby of The Rookie, a … [Read more...]
Colorado Shop Owner Assaulted, Robbed; Boise Store Burglarized
A Colorado shop may be closing after the owner was assaulted and robbed earlier this month. Paul Kendall, the 72-year-old owner of Rocky Mountain Sports and Collectibles in Pueblo told police four people entered the shop on the afternoon of August 10. One of them punched him in the face with brass knuckles and pushed him to the floor, choked him and stole his … [Read more...]
Notes: Von Miller’s Stolen Helmet Returned; Philly Shop Marches On; Vikings Collector
Von Miller has his Super Bowl 50 helmet back. Just as it did with Tom Brady’s stolen Super Bowl jerseys, the FBI delivered the helmet to the MVP of Denver’s 24-10 win over Carolina. It was recovered in Mexico—along with those Brady jerseys—at the home of a collector of pro football memorabilia who apparently didn’t always obtain his items legally. Watch the story … [Read more...]
