East Louisville, the Highlands and south Lexington
Louisville's shops are mostly game and comic stores. Sports-card shops are easiest to find on the east side, on Shelbyville Road in Middletown and nearby, and closer in, Bardstown Road through the Highlands has comics, games and collectibles.
Lexington is about an hour and a quarter east on I-64, and it is more compact, with most of its shops on the south side around Southland Drive, Clays Mill Road and Nicholasville Road. Proportionally more of them sell sports and graded cards than in Louisville.
Card shows, conventions, and tournaments happening across Kentucky.