Baseball Card Shop - Cranberry Twp, PA

[Leon]

When I go into a card shop nowadays they don't have what I collect (not that I blame them). And there aren't many to start with. "Online" is the 21st century card shop.

[markf31]

I stop by the Baseball Card Castle about once a month or so, usually with my daughter. Jeff is great and always a pleasure to talk to. They have frequent signing events for the Pirates, Steelers and Penguins as well.

About 25 minutes away, a little further south is Sports Cards Etc on Steubenville Pike, just up PA 60 from the 79 interchange. Sports Cards Etc has a larger pre war selection including tobacco and caramel issues and I stop in there also about once a month.

[Peter_Spaeth]

I think there's only one card shop left in my area just west of Boston, in the day there were many. The internet has totally replaced shops and shows for me.

[Butch7999]

Is one of the Pennsylvania shops mentioned the one that's weirdly located -- or was -- in the middle of nowhere
on the median of a divided major highway? Anybody know that one? Maybe they relocated. "Scheffer's" or something...
had a good selection of slightly overpriced post-War vintage...

[tschock]

Originally Posted by Butch7999

Is one of the Pennsylvania shops mentioned the one that's weirdly located -- or was -- in the middle of nowhere
on the median of a divided major highway? Anybody know that one? Maybe they relocated. "Scheffer's" or something...
had a good selection of slightly overpriced post-War vintage...

It is Schaffers (sp). Just a couple miles south of Lewisburg, PA and Bucknell. And we all know who went to school there.

[obcbobd]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

I think there's only one card shop left in my area just west of Boston, in the day there were many. The internet has totally replaced shops and shows for me.

Where?

Thanks

Bob

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by obcbobd

Where?

Thanks

Bob

Baseball etc. on Route 16 in Nonantum/Newton. I haven't been in quite some time but for many years they were mostly a place to buy newer stuff.

There is also Kenmore Collectibles which as the name implies is near Kenmore Square. More vintage there and they have an ebay presence. I've known the owner for decades, first-class.

[obcbobd]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Baseball etc. on Route 16 in Nonantum/Newton. I haven't been in quite some time but for many years they were mostly a place to buy newer stuff.

There is also Kenmore Collectibles which as the name implies is near Kenmore Square. More vintage there and they have an ebay presence. I've known the owner for decades, first-class.

Was not aware of them. I agree with you on Kenmore Collectibles . Baystate Coin on Bromfield St used to have vintage cards, but I've not been there in a while. There is also Hit and Run in Lexington, I don't think they have much if any vintage, but they do have supplies.

[Peter_Spaeth]

In the day when Kenmore Collectibles (then JJ Teaparty) was on Bromfield Street I would sometimes stop in to Bay State but I never seemed to buy anything there. I can still, after all the years, picture two of the guys' faces clear as day though.

[Jim65]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

I think there's only one card shop left in my area just west of Boston, in the day there were many. The internet has totally replaced shops and shows for me.

When my nephew played football for University of New Hamphire and I would go the games, there was a little card shop in Saugus, MA called Slapshot, IIRC, that I used to stop by.

[Butch7999]

This was quite a few years ago, Peter, before the invention of electronics, and our horses like to pull our Conestoga wagon really fast...
GPS, that's another 3rd-party grading service, right?

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by Butch7999

This was quite a few years ago, Peter, before the invention of electronics, and our horses like to pull our Conestoga wagon really fast...
GPS, that's another 3rd-party grading service, right?

We believe so.