Keep up with the happenings at Sluggo's Sports Cards.
We got another lot of cards in the mail yesterday for the store inventory. Lots of great stuff here including some basketball which I don't think we've shown here before. Check out these highlights.
Thanks for checking us out and if you're looking to finish off some recent sets, check out all our $.18/cards on Sportlots. Bowman will be coming soon to the SL store.
We're back with another collection purchase. Sluggo still has some guys he deals with back where he came from and they'll call him up and offer him stuff. This wasn't supposed to be here until tomorrow but we're certainly not going to complain about that.
Just a quick post, we grabbed a few items to show off. We may show more later on.
It was nice to see some of the older players from when I grew up.
I'd say the store inventory is looking really good, now to just get a store.
Sluggo and I headed out today to check out some, not really local to us, card shops. We drove out to Schererville to the Baseball Card Exchange (yes, that one), then went up the road to Dyer and checked out MFSC and then finally hit Dragons Lair: Cards and Comics in Portage before heading home.
Let's put it this way, we bought a bunch of stuff at Baseball Card Exchange and nothing at the other two. More Fun Sports Cards wasn't really organized very well and had no prices which to us, is a big deal. I don't want to ask every time I'm interested in a card. They had some stuff I was interested in but I didn't purchase (a couple of White Sox bobbleheads that I assume were probably stadium giveaways.) When we walked in, there were 4 or 5 guys standing around, chit chatting and eating pizza so right off the back, it seemed like a hang out, which I get, but it was very crowded right at the door.
Dragons Lair, come to find out, wasn't sports cards at all but more gaming which just isn't our thing. I found their Facebook page afterwards which would have told me that, guess I should have investigated a little further but my brother, who lives in the area, told us about it. If we were into that, it looked like a cool place. Organized with some gaming tables so I could see getting a bunch of like minded people there and having a good time. The nice thing is it's next to Schoop's so we at least got a good meal with it.
We'll go back to Baseball Card Exchange. The name sounded familiar to Sluggo but it didn't connect until we got there. After driving an hour and a half, we both had to use the restroom and asked if we could even though there was a sign that said no public restroom on the door. We promised we were customers and told them about the drive so he was cool and let us use it. When we went back to the restroom, we walked into the back room that was a warehouse full of shelves, full of boxes of cards. I'm talking a ton of cards. When we left, we looked up their website and sure enough, it's the company that authenticates vintage packs/boxes.
Back to the store. Very clean, organized, lots of different stuff. If I was willing to drop a bunch of money (I'm cheap), I would have dropped some cash on some autographed balls. They had a ton of HOF autographed balls. They had a lot of glass cases with all kinds of cards and some boxes of other stuff you can buy in lots and what we spent the most time on, was a 5 or 6 smaller boxes of autos & relics. Also a huge assortment of unopened packs and boxes.
The bulk of our purchase were these 2 boxes.
There were all kinds of SP's and Variations in those boxes. Definitely worth the money for us and not that we didn't already have a ton of inventory, but these boxes were too hard to pass up and I didn't even show the singles we picked up.
Just a quick post to show some of our inventory when we are up and running.
These are pics of some of the inventory from when Sluggo was moving up here.
Did you notice the quad autographed card in the top photo?
We've got another incoming package, I'll show some stuff off there when it comes in. These were just photos that he sent me when he was purchasing it, now that he's up here, I'll be able to take actual photos and have better posts.
Hello all,
Just a quick post to let you all know what's happening here. We are in the process of trying to get a card shop going in our area. We hope to have something set up within the year but until then, we are listing stuff on Sportlots with a great shipping discount to a Sportlots box. Right now, everything listed is at the minimum $.18 so nothing high dollar but we're hoping to add stuff there soon.
Until we're up and running, here's where you can find us. Obviously, here at the blog, but also these places. Click the logo or the link below it to be directed there.
Let us know if there is anything else you would like to see and we'll see what we can do.
