Baseball Card Shop

After collecting for a few years I found myself without a job one day. The construction boom had finally slowed down. Since I had been spending all my free time and all my money in the card shops I decided I could do this. Open my own card shop, why not. People spend big bucks in these places and what could be more fun. Talking baseball and sorting through cards all day, what a life. This is how I meet my best friend Ralph. Ralph is a good ole southern preacher, and was a pretty good highschool third baseman, so he says. He sure must have been a lot slimmer then than he is now, ha. We have spent many many hours in the card shop and shows living our second childhood. You should see his office at the church, looks like a card shop. Lots of really nice items, some even came from my store.

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Card Shows

We went to that Card Show, it was in the DoomSkellar in the bottom of the Astrodome. When I walked through that door I had no idea there could possibly be that many cards in the world. This was a very small room compared to the convention centers they use for card shows these days. Probably not more than 15 dealers at the show. At this time I still didn't know that people really did this for a living, selling and buying baseball cards, what a life.

Being the packrat that I am I started buying and collecting any thing to do with sports, especially baseball. I even found a few card shops in Houston. Not good for me, I spent all my off time and all my money at the shops. Larry D. loved to see me drive up on Saturday morning.

Sure didn't know I would feed myself for years on baseball cards.

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