The I-10 Westside Show is the monthly anchor of the Sports Cards of Houston circuit, and the September 19, 2026 edition brings dealers back to the Holiday Inn Westway Park Hotel for a single full Saturday of cardboard. This is a traditional, no-frills hotel card show: one room, rows of tables, free admission, and a crowd of west Houston regulars who have been working the same aisles for years. If you have never been to a card show and the size of a convention hall feels intimidating, this is the kind of event to start with.
The emphasis here is squarely on sports. Expect MLB and Houston Astros inventory in quantity, along with NFL and Texans material, NBA and Rockets cards, NHL, college, boxing, and racing. Vintage is a genuine strength at this show — dealers who specialize in 1950s through 1980s issues regularly set up here, and you will find star cards, commons for set builders, team lots, and stacks of graded slabs in display cases. Modern buyers will find rookies, inserts, parallels, autographs, and sealed wax. A handful of tables carry non-sport and trading card game material as well, so Pokemon and other TCG collectors are not shut out, but sports is the reason most people come.
Hours are 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM, one day only. Admission is free and so is parking in the hotel lot. There is no advance ticket and no VIP tier — you walk in the door and start hunting. Attendees can register at the show to join the mailing list and be entered in a free prize drawing, which is a long-running feature of this series and worth two minutes of your time on the way in.
The venue is at 4606 Westway Park Blvd, just inside Beltway 8 off the I-10 Katy Freeway, which makes it a convenient stop for collectors coming in from Katy, Cypress, Memorial, Spring Branch, and the Energy Corridor. The hotel ballroom is climate controlled, well lit, and easy to navigate with a stroller or a rolling case.
Who should go: set builders, vintage hunters, and anyone who prefers a room where you can actually talk to a dealer without shouting. Pricing at a show this size tends to be more negotiable than at a large convention, particularly if you are buying multiple cards from the same table. Bring cash in small bills, a want list broken out by set and card number, and penny sleeves or a small box to carry purchases safely.
Timing matters. The best material is usually gone in the first ninety minutes, so a 9:00 AM arrival is the single most useful thing you can do. That said, the last hour before 4:00 PM is when dealers start making deals on bulk and bargain boxes rather than repacking them.
This show runs monthly. Confirmed upcoming dates in the same series include October 17, November 14, and December 12, 2026. Check sportscardsofhouston.com or the show's Facebook page before heading out, since hotel ballroom assignments can occasionally shift.