The October Trading Card Show sets up in the parish hall at Most Blessed Sacrament Church on Saturday, October 24, 2026, landing two weeks after the Derby City Card Show weekend and offering south Louisville collectors a much more relaxed way to spend a Saturday morning. That scheduling is a genuine advantage: dealers come off the big convention-center show with restocked inventory and cards they did not move, and a free-admission neighborhood room is where a lot of that material gets priced to sell.
Late October is one of the better windows of the collecting year. The World Series is underway, so postseason performers and Bowman prospects are moving on reputation made in the last three weeks. College football is deep into conference play with Kentucky Wildcats and Louisville Cardinals inventory active. The NFL is at midseason, and NBA and NHL have just tipped off, waking up basketball and hockey tables that were quiet all summer. Holiday shopping is also starting, and dealers respond by stocking affordable gift-tier material alongside the cases.
The veteran dealer core here brings unusually broad inventory for a room this size. Sports tables cover MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, UFC, boxing, MMA, soccer and college across every era: pre-war tobacco and Goudey, 1950s and 1960s Topps and Bowman, 1970s and 1980s Topps, Fleer and Donruss, big cheap 1990s junk-wax boxes, and modern Panini Prizm, Donruss Optic, Select, Mosaic, Topps Chrome, Bowman Chrome and Bowman Draft. Premium tables carry Topps Dynasty, National Treasures, Flawless and Immaculate, and locked cases hold PSA, BGS, SGC and CGC graded slabs from budget filler to real vintage. Louisville specialties turn up reliably — Muhammad Ali boxing memorabilia, Kentucky Derby and thoroughbred racing collectibles, Louisville Bats items, and deep Cincinnati Reds, Bengals and Indianapolis Colts runs. Trading card game vendors stock Pokémon singles and sealed from WOTC Base, Jungle, Fossil and Team Rocket through Scarlet and Violet plus Japanese exclusives, Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh!, One Piece TCG, Disney Lorcana, Dragon Ball Z Fusion World, Digimon and Star Wars Unlimited. Comics, non-sport sets, Funko Pops, autographed memorabilia and supplies complete the mix.
This is a single-day show running 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM Eastern. Four hours goes quickly, and the regulars treat it accordingly — most are through the door within the first fifteen minutes.
Admission is free for all ages with no VIP or early-entry tier, so everyone gets the same shot at the tables. Children are welcome and enter free, and the aisles accommodate strollers. Table reservations are handled directly with the show host through Louisville hobby Facebook groups.
Most Blessed Sacrament Church is at 1128 Berry Boulevard, Louisville, KY 40215, in the south end with easy access from I-264 and I-65. The hall is climate-controlled, single-level and ADA-accessible, with free on-site parking in the church lot.
The show works for first-timers, families, casual fans, set builders, modern flippers and vintage hunters. Its neighborhood scale means you can actually have a conversation with a dealer, which is increasingly rare.
Arrive right at 10:00 AM, bring cash in small bills plus Venmo, Zelle and PayPal, and carry a want list sorted by sport, player and TCG title. Pack penny sleeves, top loaders and a hard slab case, and save part of your budget for the final half hour when prices soften before tear-down.
