When Mike Brown was a kid, he had 4 older brothers who were always going to the store to pick ...

Evan Israelsky began collecting at the young age of 5-years-old. His first taste of the business side of the Hobby ...

Chuck Weldon opened Sports Card Junction back in 1995. His son, Chad, also started collecting sports cards at a very ...

The Baseball Card Industry was in the middle of an explosion in 1991, during what many collectors affectionately call the ...

Dean Fuller collected baseball cards as a kid when packs of cards cost a nickel. He grew up in Detroit, ...

Dean Hanley began collecting baseball cards in 1969 at the age of four. In the 1970s, he and his father ...

Keith Neuhart started collecting when he was a kid in the late 70’s-early 80’s. He fell so much in love ...

In the early 1980’s, Chris and Marc Gooboian began collecting non-sports cards like Star Wars and “Garbage Pail Kids.” When ...

Walt Case originally began collecting baseball cards in 1952. He would go on to collect until 1958 and then he ...

John Gola started collecting as a kid in Michigan in the 70’s but moved away from the Hobby when he ...

Frank Bray began collecting sports cards in 1960 when his parents owned a little corner grocery store/sub shop in Springfield, ...

Steve Wrate’s first baseball card was a 1971 Topps when he was a kid. This was the cardboard that got ...

Mitch Guttenberg started collecting sports cards in 1975 at the young age of 4 years old. He has been a ...

Joe Davis began collecting in 1976 at the young age of 8-years-old. There was a small grocery store on the ...

Anders Olson started collecting Topps Star Wars cards in 1977. At the age of 7, he used to go into ...

Charlie Heinisch Jr. has been “ripping packs” since 1979 when he was 7-years-old. By the early 1980’s he was set ...

Steve Burris opened his card shop in Broken Arrow, OK in 1998. He quickly added Adam “Tattoo” Thomas to the ...

Lee Goldinger first remembers baseball cards while at his brother’s Little League game in 1974. When his parents asked him ...

In 1984, Nathan Burns was 7 years old when his father bought him a 1984 Fleer Cello pack at a ...

Jon Schafer began collecting trading cards in grade school in the late 70’s-early 80’s. Instead of heading to Wall Street ...

Alex Mortimer grew up in the San Fernando Valley collecting baseball cards. He spent his childhood riding his bike to ...

Graig Reeves started collecting sports cards in the mid 80’s when he was just 5 years old. A native of ...

Growing up in Indiana, Andy Albert was naturally drawn to basketball cards. As kids, many of us dream of being ...

In 1978, Mike Fruitman was living in Miami and attended a morning kids show called, “The Skipper Chuck Show.” During ...

Charlie DiPietro began collecting trading cards in 1957. Sixty years later, he is the owner of Sports Cards Plus, a ...