The Main Event Sports Cards and Collectibles Sports 4.9(58)

The Main Event Sports Cards and Collectibles is recorded at 2801 Grand Ave in Ames, IA 50010. Opening times on the schedule start as early as 10 AM, and the latest close on it is 7 PM. A website is on file for this listing but no phone number, so the site is the only direct contact route here. 6 days carry posted hours here, and Monday does not. Iowa as a whole has 119 independent shops on file across 52 cities and 14 chain locations alongside them. The closest other cities with listings are Ankeny, about 21 miles out with 8 shops, and Grimes at roughly 25 miles.

Ames holds 4 listings here — 4 independent shops — and this one appears first on that page. That order is a rating weighted by review count, not alphabetical and not by distance. Classification here is sports cards — a directory-level label drawn from the business listing rather than from a stock check. Measured from its coordinates, the nearest other shops in the directory are Main Street Magic, Miniatures & More (2 miles) and Main Street Sportscards (2 miles). Its 4.9-star Google rating rests on 58 reviews, the third-largest review count of the 4 rated listings in Ames. What the directory does not hold is inventory: there is no record here of what is in the case on a given day, which sets are open, or what the shop pays for cards. Call before you drive.