Story on Baseball Cards in Kansas City Area from the Kansas City Star
Just a couple of baseball card stores remain in KC area, and they play a new game Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/sports/mlb/article19994556.html#storylink=cpy BY DONALD BRADLEY dbradley@kcstar.com The woman, a cellular biologist, carefully inserts a PSA 8 card — that’s high-grade — into an envelope to be shipped to a man in Parma, Ohio. She does this in an unmarked storefront in Overland Park. Only the light says somebody is inside. Outside, rain falls, cars pass, nobody looks. Good grief. Do people at Homeland Security know what’s going on in this place? “Don Drysdale,” the woman says of the card. “Topps, 1957, $369.95.” Oh. So that’s what cellular biologists do. And that’s what the baseball card business has become. Fifteen years ago, the Kansas City metro area could count more than 50 card shops, the kind where people hovered over glass cases and looked down at ballplayers like from high in the bleachers. Cards were going deep back then: Mc...