The Sports Card Show at Discovery Park of America takes place Saturday, October 17, 2026 in Union City, Tennessee, and the venue alone makes it worth the trip. Discovery Park is a fifty-acre museum and heritage park in northwest Tennessee — a genuinely impressive facility with a hundred-thousand-square-foot main building housing exhibits on natural history, Native American culture, transportation, and regional heritage. A card show inside a real museum is a different experience than a card show inside a hotel ballroom, and it turns a collecting Saturday into something the whole family will actually enjoy.
The show is sports-focused. Dealer tables cover MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, UFC, boxing, and soccer across the full history of the hobby: vintage Topps and Bowman from the 1950s and 1960s, the 1970s and 1980s wax era, the 1990s insert and refractor boom, and modern Panini Prizm, Donruss Optic, Select, Mosaic, Topps Chrome, and Bowman prospect product. Northwest Tennessee and the Kentucky and Missouri border regions all feed this show, so you will see St. Louis Cardinals, Memphis Grizzlies, Tennessee Titans, Tennessee Volunteers, Kentucky Wildcats, and Memphis Tigers inventory alongside broad national material. Autographed memorabilia — signed balls, photos, and helmets — is well represented, and locked cases hold PSA, BGS, SGC, and CGC graded slabs from affordable commons to significant keys. Trading card game tables carrying Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh!, One Piece, and Disney Lorcana typically appear as a minority of the floor.
Hours run 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM CDT — seven hours on a single Saturday. Admission to the card show is free, which is unusual for a venue of this caliber and is listed prominently by the show's organizers. Note the distinction: free entry covers the card show floor. If you want to tour Discovery Park's museum exhibits and grounds, that requires separate museum admission, so check the park's own ticket pricing if you plan to make a day of it. Children are welcome throughout.
Discovery Park of America is at 830 Everett Boulevard in Union City, TN 38261, about two hours north of Memphis via Highway 51 and roughly ninety minutes from Jackson. Parking is free, plentiful, and directly on site, and the facility is fully climate-controlled, ADA-accessible, and built to handle crowds — restrooms, seating, and food service are all better than the typical card show venue.
This show is ideal for families who want an outing with more than one thing to do, for vintage sports hunters working an under-picked regional floor, and for collectors who like a comfortable room and a slower pace. Serious modern flippers may find the floor smaller than a metro show, but the free admission and low overhead mean prices are often better. Bring cash in mixed denominations, a want list sorted by sport and player, penny sleeves, top loaders, and a hard slab case. Arrive at 9:00 AM for first look, then tour the museum in the afternoon after the tables thin out. Confirm details with the venue before traveling.
