Sports Collectors Digest

MUSIC CITY MIRACLE

When Jeff Roberts decided a few years back to start a monthly gathering of like-minded sports card enthusiasts from the Nashville area, he had no idea what it would lead to.

“Eleven years ago, this month, we held the first show. Never in a million years did I ever think it would come to this,” he said.

Roberts was starting to ease his way into retirement from his job as an architect, and this was what he wanted to do. He started out at a small school gym where he was “hoping to fill 15 tables,” he said, shaking his head. Soon it grew into two shows per month.

“The more shows we did,

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