Greg Willoughby began collecting sports cards in 1969. Since then, the hobby and how we collect has changed quite a ...

Interview with Mike Hanson, owner of Absolute Sports Cards in Savage, Minnesota.

Kyle Franklin began collecting sports cards back in 1975 with World Hockey Association (WHA) cards. A combination of collecting cards ...

Interview with Bradley Phillips, owner of Playmakers Sports Cards in Rapid City, South Dakota.

Dan Pollard and Geoff Connolly are longtime collectors in the trading card world. But in 2010, they decided to combine ...

Ryan Bannister began collecting right in the heart of the “Junk Wax Era”, very similar to many of us within ...

Jake Silliman has been collecting trading cards since the very young age of 3. As many collectors do, he took ...

Scott Landers began collecting sports cards in 1980, just as the Hobby was about to surge to new heights. He ...

Mel Lundgren began collecting sports cards back in 1964. After spending some time in and out of the Hobby during ...

Chris Buckler began collecting over 30 years ago, when the Hobby was booming from the popularity of the Junk Wax ...

Aaron Bertram began collecting cards in 1990, when the “Junk Wax Era” was pushing the Hobby into an all-time high ...

Chuck and Mathew Durka are brothers who decided to combine their skills and interests in running business and collecting sports ...

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 ...