Sports card shops

Sports cards covers everything from a 1950s baseball common to a numbered rookie patch autograph pulled last week. In practice a shop that says it does sports cards falls somewhere on a spectrum: some are essentially modern sealed retailers, some are singles houses with deep boxes to dig through, and some are vintage specialists who barely touch current product. Which one you want depends entirely on what you collect. CardShopMap currently lists 753 sports card shops across 49 states and 610 cities.

Listed shops: 753
States: 49
Cities: 610

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What to look for in a sports card shop

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A singles case that is actually priced

Cards in the case should have prices on them, and those prices should differ between grades and parallels of the same card. A case where everything is 'ask' is a case that gets priced based on how you look.

Depth in one era, not a thin layer of everything

A shop with three boxes of 1970s baseball and no modern is more useful to a vintage collector than one with a single row of each decade. Ask what they are strongest in — good shops answer immediately.

A published buying policy

Shops that buy collections should be able to tell you what they buy, what they do not, and roughly how they arrive at a number. See our guide to selling a collection for what a fair explanation sounds like.

Graded cards handled properly

Slabs stored upright and priced against recent sales for the same card, grade, and grading company. A shop pricing a PSA 9 and a PSA 10 the same is not following the market.

Supplies in stock

Penny sleeves, top loaders, one-touches, and semi-rigid holders. It sounds trivial; a shop that runs out of top loaders is a shop that is not really serving collectors.

Questions to bring to the shop

CardShopMap doesn’t answer these — the shop does. Ask before you buy or sell.

What era or sport are you strongest in?
Do you buy collections, and do you make offers on the spot or take them away?
Do you do grading submissions, and which companies?
Are your graded prices based on recent sales, and can you show me the comps?
Do you get new singles in regularly, or is the case mostly static?

Watch out for

Raw cards described as 'a 9 or 10 easily'. If that were reliable the shop would have graded it and charged accordingly.
Unpriced cases combined with a reluctance to quote. Price discovery should not depend on how much you appear to know.

Shops tagged Sports cards

Tags come from the shop's own site or an owner claim, never from a competitor's classification.

Rizo Sports & TCG - Murrieta
Closed
40165 Murrieta Hot Springs Rd, Murrieta, CA 92563
Rizo Sports & TCG - Murrieta is a card shop trading from Murrieta Hot Springs Road in Murrieta, California. Rizo Sports & TCG - Murrieta spans both halves of the hobby: Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh!, and One Piece in trading card games, and sports cards, baseball, football, and basketball in sports. Grading also appears on the record. It runs an online store. Published hours are 10am to 8pm, seven days a week. Confirmation that this is a card business came from the shop's own website; everything else is imported place data.
Sports cards · Pokémon · Magic: The Gathering · +6 more
Underground Card Zone
Hours unknown
2055 N Bridge St, Chillicothe, OH 45601
Underground Card Zone is a card shop trading from North Bridge Street in Chillicothe, Ohio. sports cards is the only category recorded against it. A phone number and an official website at shopucz.com are both on the listing. Still missing from the record: whether it buys collections and opening hours. Confirmation that this is a card business came from the shop's own website; everything else is imported place data.
Sports cards
Columbus Card Shop
Closed
3598 Main St., Hilliard, OH 43026
Columbus Card Shop is a card shop trading from Main Street in Hilliard, Ohio. On the trading card game side it lists Pokémon and One Piece; on the sports side, sports cards. It runs an online store. The hours on file cover Thursday to Sunday, and it is shown closed on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. The listing links the shop's own site at columbuscardshop.com, but no phone number is recorded. Confirmation that this is a card business came from the shop's own website; everything else is imported place data.
Sports cards · Pokémon · One Piece
West Georgia Sportscards
Open now
2108 Fairburn Rd, Douglasville, GA 30135
West Georgia Sportscards is a card shop trading from Fairburn Road in Douglasville, Georgia. Sports coverage on the record runs to sports cards, baseball, football, and basketball. Vintage also appears on the record. It is listed as open Monday to Saturday, 9:30am to 6:30pm. A phone number and an official website at wgscards.com are both on the listing. On the same record, Saturday is listed but Sunday is not. Card trading here was confirmed from the shop's own site rather than assumed from its name, though the address itself comes from imported place data.
Sports cards · Baseball · Football · +2 more
Champion Sportscards and Collectibles
Hours unknown
700 Sandy Plains Rd, Marietta, GA 30066
Champion Sportscards and Collectibles is a card shop trading from Sandy Plains Road in Marietta, Georgia. It is listed for sports cards, baseball, and basketball. Vintage and grading also appear on the record. It runs an online store. Contact details on file are a phone number and ebay.com. Still missing from the record: opening hours. The shop's own website is what confirmed it trades cards; the address and contact details come from imported place data.
Sports cards · Baseball · Basketball · +2 more
South Bay Sports Cards
Hours unknown
566 S Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94086
South Bay Sports Cards carries Pokémon, sports cards, and grading from South Murphy Avenue in Sunnyvale, California. Contact details on file are a phone number and peninsulasportscards.com. The record does not yet cover whether it buys collections and opening hours, so this page does not claim to. Confirmation that this is a card business came from the shop's own website; everything else is imported place data.
Sports cards · Pokémon · Grading
The Sports Card Zone
Hours unknown
852 Sharp Dr, Shorewood, IL 60404
The Sports Card Zone is a card shop trading from Sharp Drive in Shorewood, Illinois. The Sports Card Zone spans both halves of the hobby: Pokémon and One Piece in trading card games, and sports cards, baseball, football, and basketball in sports. It runs an online store. Contact details on file are a phone number and thesportscardzone.com. Confirmation that this is a card business came from the shop's own website; everything else is imported place data.
Sports cards · Pokémon · One Piece · +3 more
Slapshot Sports Cards
Hours unknown
184 Broadway, Saugus, MA 01906
Slapshot Sports Cards is a card shop trading from Broadway in Saugus, Massachusetts. It is listed under sports cards and nothing else. A phone number and an official website at slapshotonline.com are both on the listing. Still missing from the record: whether it buys collections and opening hours. Card trading here was confirmed from the shop's own site rather than assumed from its name, though the address itself comes from imported place data.
Sports cards
The Rated Rookies - Sports Cards and Collectibles
Hours unknown
918 Hartnell Ave, Redding, CA 96002
The Rated Rookies - Sports Cards and Collectibles is a card shop trading from Hartnell Avenue in Redding, California. sports cards is the only category recorded against it. A phone number and an official website at theratedrookies.com are both on the listing. Still missing from the record: whether it buys collections and opening hours. Card trading here was confirmed from the shop's own site rather than assumed from its name, though the address itself comes from imported place data.
Sports cards