Posts Tagged ‘The National’

If you’re new to NoOffseason.com, we get asked all the time what the best way is to spend $1k on sports cards. As such, we publish a regular article for premium members called the $1k budget builder. Each one has a uniquely timed theme, and picks some of the best choices from our Formula-Based Sports Card Rankings. In Sports Card School, we talk about the top ways to diversity your sports card investment portfolio. Heading into The National, which takes place from July 23-July 28 in Cleveland, Ohio, many people aren’t sure of their Sports Card Strategy. This article will explain how to build a strategic plan heading into The National – whether you’re going or not. On Lefty Cards last week, Kendall McKee talked about his plan to potentially liquidate cards heading into The National, so as to “free up funds” to spend at the show. I highly encourage people NOT to look at…

Contributed by Chad Guell Just like that the National is over! It was great to get there for 2 days this year! The first day I took my 2 sons with me, and the 2nd day I spent the whole day in the Sports Card Strategy Show booth cracking slabs and talking to people. For those that haven’t ever been to a National before, get it on your bucket list! It is so much fun! This year’s National set a record both in square footage size of the show floor as well as the number of booths and vendors that were there. I don’t know if they got the air conditioning figured out for Saturday which was expected to be an all-time single day record for attendance, but Thursday and Friday it was warm in there. Thursday wasn’t as busy as Friday, but it felt like it was 80 plus degrees on the show floor!…