A legacy worth preserving.
Meet
The CardFather.
A lifelong sports card collector, enthusiast and philanthropist. Seventy-five plus years and no sign of stopping.
It started with a 5 year old boy whose parents had recently divorced, and whose grandfather bought him a baseball glove, a ball and a pack of baseball cards. His grandfather was trying to comfort a young boy whose friends' parents had insisted they could not play with him because of the divorce.
It continued as a 10 year old boy who hitchhiked with a few of his friends to Red Sox games at Fenway Park. That is where the passion for baseball and cards began.
Everybody needs a hobby.
For most of those years,
it was hidden away.
Shelves in an unfinished basement. No cases, no lights, nothing anybody would call a display. Seventy years of collecting sitting in boxes because there was nowhere to put it.
So he built the room he had always dreamt of. Custom cabinets, proper lighting, and cards that deserved to be properly displayed. He still spends four or five hours a day sorting, alphabetizing and filing, usually alone, but sometimes with the help of his daughter and grandson.
It has always been
more than cards.
He always carries cards with him. Not for trading. For giving. Kids know him, and they line up. He hands them out at ballgames, at church, and mails them overseas to the troops.
That is where the name ‘The CardFather’ came from.
He built a game to make sharing the collection more of a thrill. Three dice and a game board he designed in his head, which came to life with the help of a good friend. Whatever you roll is what you take home.
So, we started
CardFather Sports.
Cards can be catalogued, but a person cannot. The stories, the knowledge, and the joy of putting a card in somebody's hands do not fit in a binder.
We are on a mission to preserve the legacy, and to pay it forward.
The collection
Seventy-five years of it, catalogued and cared for so that it outlasts the man who built it.
The stories
Where every card came from and why it mattered, written down while he is here to tell them.
The impact
The habit of putting cards into other people's hands, kept going by whoever comes next.
The collection
is still growing.
Nearly 80, and today you will still find him sorting, filing, and building packs. Still sending cards overseas to the troops. Still putting packs together for kids at ballgames. Still doing what he calls his knitting.
We are just doing our part, documenting it as it happens. A collection built over a lifetime, and a story we would like to last forever.
Our values
Passion
Tradition
Integrity
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