Isn't Josh Evans of Leland's also from New Jersey? John Taube, the bat authenticator for PSA, also has his office in New Jersey.
I'm too young to have seen the boom (27) but New Jersey seems to have a large print in the sports memorabilia world. From what my dad tells me, there seemed to be great shows all the time in New Jersey at malls and the Garden State Racetrack. I think being between large cities like Philadelphia and New York, with other cities like Baltimore, Washington D.C., and even Boston being somewhat close to the northern part of New Jersey, has allowed for NJ to be at the center of a large portion of the memorabilia craze and capitalize on it's central location.
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