2011 National?

[shammus]

Andrew,

You got my vote. There are a couple places on the Kansas Side that are large enough for this as well. The Overland Park Convention Center comes to mind - and not just because it's 20 minutes away from where I live either!

[slidekellyslide]

I love KC...Every Summer I take the family down there for a baseball game, Worlds of Fun, Oceans of Fun, and the T-Rex cafe. They have a nice zoo, but the area surrounding the zoo is not so nice...they also have the Negro League Museum...and they were building a new waterpark by the Nascar track on the KC side the last time I was down there. It'll probably be open this Summer.

[LOUCARDFAN]

I think Louisville, Kentucky would be a great place to hold the National. An abundance of convention space, plenty of hotels, some great restaurants, Louisville Slugger Museum, Churchill Downs, a near by casino and plenty of other things to do. Louisville is pretty centrally located and is easily accessible with three major interstates that run though it.

Plus parking would only cost around $6.

[Jewish-collector]

Even though it is a 6 hour drive, I really like the National in Cleveland personally, but I think the organizers should be holding the National in additional different cities than what they are currently doing. I know this year will be in Baltimore, but then it seems to rotate between Chicago and Cleveland. Why not try other cities that have been mentioned in the past ?

During the late 1970s and early 80s, larger sports collectors conventions included seminars and discussion panels but the hobby eventually drifted into the mammoth show/autograph pavilion model. With the advance of the internet, less business than ever takes place in person and fewer discussions occur between dealers and collectors who share the same passion. I'd like to see more of these type seminars & discussions during the National weekend, either during show hours or after show hours rather than a separate "Premier Collectible Conference and Exhibition (PCCE)" show that was unsuccessfully held in April of 2008 in Chicago.

Alan