Modern Sports Card Shops

This page collects the 2,143 listings in the directory classified for modern sports cards — current rookies, prospects and recent releases across baseball, basketball, football, hockey and soccer. They sit in 1,472 cities across all 50 states, and 2,095 of them are independent shops against only 48 national chain locations.

That chain figure is the thing to notice. It is low because the modern-sports tag is applied to every business the directory files under Sports or under both categories, and almost no chain location is filed that way — a GameStop or a Walmart in this dataset is classified as a trading card game retailer. So this page is, in practice, an independents-first view of the sports side of the directory: roughly 98% of what you see below is a local shop.

The tag itself is a classification, not a stock check. There is no rule that reads a shop's name looking for the words "modern sports", so no listing here is on the page because it said so — every one of the 2,143 is here because of how its business record is categorised. That is a reasonable proxy for "this place deals in sports cards" and a poor one for "this place has the rookie you want".

The largest concentrations are California (201), Florida (171), Texas (134), New York (125), and Ohio (104), and at city level Las Vegas, Nevada (14), San Antonio, Texas (12), New York, New York (11), and Rochester, New York (10). Coverage of the contact fields across the set: 1,941 carry a phone number, 1,672 post hours, and 1,297 link to a website, and 1,748 carry a Google rating. Sister page: vintage sports, which covers the same base set plus the shops whose own names point at older material.