The USA Card Show occupies the Marin Center Exhibit Hall in San Rafael for two days, Saturday and Sunday, September 26 and 27, 2026. Marin County almost never hosts a card show of this scale, which is what makes the weekend notable — collectors from San Rafael, Novato, Mill Valley, Sausalito, Larkspur, and Petaluma normally have to cross the Golden Gate or drive to the Peninsula for anything larger than a shop event. A two-day exhibit-hall show on their side of the bridge is a rare thing.
The vendor floor spans the full hobby. Sports dealers bring MLB inventory as the regular season closes, NFL four weeks into the schedule, NBA as the season nears, plus NHL, UFC, boxing, and soccer. Product ranges from 1950s and 1960s Topps and Bowman vintage and pre-war material at the high-end tables, through 1970s and 1980s set-builder runs and junk-wax dollar boxes, to current Panini Prizm, Donruss Optic, Select, Mosaic, Contenders, Topps Chrome, Bowman Draft, Stadium Club, and premium National Treasures and Immaculate. San Francisco Giants, San Francisco 49ers, Golden State Warriors, San Jose Sharks, and Oakland Athletics material anchors local demand. Trading card game vendors carry Pokémon raw singles, graded illustration rares, Japanese imports, and sealed booster boxes and elite trainer boxes spanning vintage WOTC through Scarlet and Violet, plus Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh!, One Piece, Disney Lorcana, Dragon Ball Super, and Digimon. Locked cases hold PSA, BGS, SGC, and CGC slabs, and additional tables carry autographed memorabilia, signed baseballs and jerseys, vintage comics, Funko Pops, retro video games, and hobby supplies.
Hours run 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM Pacific on Saturday and 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM Pacific on Sunday. Admission is a modest walk-up door charge in line with regional exhibit-hall shows, with children accompanied by an adult typically admitted free. Advance ticketing is not usually published; confirm current pricing with the promoter before travelling.
The Marin Center Exhibit Hall sits within the Marin County Civic Center campus at 10 Avenue of the Flags in San Rafael — the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed complex that is a National Historic Landmark and genuinely worth a look on its own. The exhibit hall is a large, open, climate-controlled space with high ceilings, wide aisles, and excellent natural and overhead lighting, which makes inspecting raw cards easier than in a hotel ballroom. Free on-site parking is abundant. Highway 101 access is immediate, putting the venue roughly twenty-five minutes from the Golden Gate Bridge and forty from downtown San Francisco.
This show fits North Bay collectors who rarely get a local event, serious buyers who want a two-day window, families making a weekend outing, set builders, TCG players, and dealers buying raw collections from Marin's long-established collector base — which is exactly why national dealers book this one.
For the best results, come Saturday at open when inventory is fresh and Marin's estate-sale material is still on the tables. Bring cash for negotiating leverage plus a payment app, a want list organized by sport and set, sleeves and top loaders, and a carrying box. Sunday afternoon is the better bargaining window. If you are selling, arrive early Saturday with material sorted by sport and year.