The East Louisville Card Show comes to St. Michaels Gym on Saturday, May 30, 2026 for a Memorial Day weekend Saturday hobby event tailored to Louisville's east end and Jeffersontown communities. Filling a real gap on the local card-show map, this newer show pulls collectors from St. Matthews, Anchorage, Middletown, Lyndon, Crestwood, La Grange, and Oldham County — neighborhoods that have historically had to drive across town for the long-standing Highlands and South End shows. Memorial Day weekend timing puts the show right at the leading edge of summer hobby season, with NBA Conference Finals in full swing, MLB hobby releases stacking up, and Kentucky Derby week receipts still fresh in the rear-view.
The vendor floor packs the St. Michaels gym with sports and TCG dealers from across the Louisville metro and Southern Indiana. Sports tables stock deep MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, UFC, boxing, MMA, soccer, and college football inventory across every era — vintage Topps, Bowman, Fleer, Goudey, Play Ball, and pre-war tobacco runs from the early 1900s through the 1980s, junk-wax 1990s monster boxes, and modern Panini Prizm, Donruss Optic, Select, Mosaic, Topps Chrome, Bowman Draft, and premium Topps Dynasty, National Treasures, Flawless, and Immaculate. Louisville Cardinals basketball and football, Kentucky Wildcats, Cincinnati Reds, Bengals, Indianapolis Colts, Louisville Bats, and Louisville City FC inventory moves consistently, and Muhammad Ali boxing memorabilia and Kentucky Derby horse-racing pieces are a regional specialty. TCG tables cover Pokémon singles and sealed from vintage WOTC through modern Scarlet & Violet and Japanese exclusives, Magic: The Gathering Commander and Standard, Yu-Gi-Oh!, One Piece TCG, Disney Lorcana, Dragon Ball Z Fusion World, Digimon, Star Wars Unlimited, and Flesh and Blood. Locked cases display PSA, BGS, SGC, and CGC graded slabs from low-end to grail-level, alongside autographed memorabilia, vintage comics, Funko Pops, and hobby supplies.
Doors open at 9:00 AM EDT and run through 2:00 PM EDT. Admission is free for all ages — one of the best deals in the Louisville hobby calendar — and there is no formal VIP early-entry, so the door open is the door open for everyone. Kids are warmly welcomed and dealers regularly hand out free packs and singles to engaged younger collectors. Hourly door-prize raffles run throughout the show with prizes donated by participating vendors. Table reservations are typically handled through the show's Facebook event page in the weeks before each date.
St. Michaels Gym is located on St. Michaels Way in eastern Louisville, easily reached from I-64, the Gene Snyder Freeway (I-265), and Shelbyville Road, and a short drive from St. Matthews and Anchorage. The gym is climate-controlled — a major comfort upgrade for a humid late-May Louisville Saturday — ADA-accessible, and laid out with wide aisles for easy browsing. Free parking is plentiful on the parish lot, and the surrounding Jeffersontown corridor has plenty of grab-and-go lunch spots if you want to break in the middle of the show.
This show fits every collector type — first-timers, families, kids and parents, casual fans, modern flippers, breakers, and vintage hunters. For the best experience, arrive right at 9:00 AM for first dibs on freshly-restocked dealer tables, bring cash plus Venmo, Zelle, and PayPal backups, and carry a want list sorted by sport, player, and TCG title. Pack penny sleeves, top loaders, and a hard-sided slab case. Save the last forty-five minutes for negotiation. Follow the East Louisville Card Show Facebook page for vendor previews.