ROSEMONT, Ill. — I’m not real sure how they keep track of attendance at the National Sports Collectors Convention, but I don’t see how there could ever have been one bigger than this year’s show in Chicago.
Every day, as soon as they opened the doors, one of the first things you encountered was a mad dash to the different grading companies, where collectors were scrambling to get in line for their services. PSA, Beckett, SGC, CGC and all the others were doing a brisk business from Wednesday afternoon until the show closed on Sunday. I set out to find just what kind of items collectors brought to have graded and what they expected to get in return.
It was around 1:30 p.m. on the first day, two hours before the doors opened for the first time, and I was at the PSA booth, where there was a mad dash to get everything finalized for the start of the show. I
