I am blogging on the road this week and will be stopping by some card shops that are new to me and some that I have been visiting for years. This afternoon I found myself driving in southern Illinois and stopped by a new card shop in Marion, Illinois that was recommended to me by a former student. Always up for an adventure I wandered off of Interstate 57 and down Illinois Route 13 to the small town of Marion, Illinois. I actually went to undergrad an hour west of Marion at Southeast Missouri and had passed by the town several times in my life, but never stopped. I was really impressed with the small downtown area in away from the highway. Neat looking houses, cobblestone streets, and a really cool town clock tower surounded by a traffic circle (a must in any small Southern Illinois town).
Fox Sports Cards is actually in the town cirlce and is a great looking shop from the outside and inside. It's in an older building that has been shown a lot of love and I like the idea of a card shop that is next to a city hall. The inside of the shop is also awesome. Very neat and clean with a giant card display cases that holds baseball, football, basketball, and wax. The store also has memoribilia, t-shirts and jersey, and other cool fan collectibles scattered throughout.
The staff of the store was awesome. I am not a huge fan of the GPS and can tell you about the downtown area of Marion, Illinois because I circled it twice trying to find the shop. I called the store and the staff was happy to point me in the right direction. They took a no pressure approach to sales and just let me look. The baseball section of the store had a case of modern, shiny cards and a case of vintage. The cards were, as they should be, heavily Cardinals with a few Cubs and nice Hall of Fame caliber players mixed in throughout. I stuck with shiny and modern with a vintage twist and picked out one Stan Musial relic card from 2009 Topps Heritage and also got two packs of 2012 Topps Heritage. I also got a complimentary pack of Lineage from last year for stopping in. So how did I do?
2009 Topps Heritage Forbes Stadium Relic Stan Musial
2012 Topps Heritage Reverse Image Miguel Cabrera and Hunter Pence Jersey Card
2012 Topps Lineage
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