Many Happy Returns

Man, it has been a long time,” I said to myself as I drove over the Tennessee mountains to Wes Starkey’s Inside Pitch Promotions Sports Card Show at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh.

The June 19 show is always one of the bigger shows held in the Southeast each summer, and by my recollection it will be the first major show that I have attended since February 2020. I am fully vaccinated and ready to go, and it has been a long 17 months. A lot of the dealers are older, retired guys, and I hope they have made it through COVID without any problems.

I enjoy the shows, especially the social aspect of it — just spending the day searching for cards, talking with dealers