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About Dean's Cards
Since 2003, Dean's Cards has been the #1 resource for buying, selling, and investing in vintage baseball cards. With over a million sports cards online, Dean's Cards is a top seller in the hobby and offers the largest selection of vintage cards. The company has a team of 15 people and has a 8,500 square foot office in Cincinnati, Ohio. We feature high-resolution scans and detailed grading statistics for each individual vintage card, including every card in our 25,000+ vintage sets. With our state-of-the-art website, top grading standards, five-star customer service, and the most complete online catalog of vintage sports cards in the hobby, Dean's Cards provides the best shopping experiences in the hobby.
Meet the Owner
In 2003, Dean left corporate America and started Dean's Cards out of his basement in Cincinnati, Ohio. Dean was a life-long baseball fanatic and collector of sports cards. In 1989, while getting his MBA at the University of Southern California, Dean wrote a business plan for selling vintage baseball cards. The professor deemed the idea unrealistic and so Dean only earned a a grade of 'A minus'!
About a decade later, Dean realized his dream could become reality with the help of the internet boom. Seeing the path for the baseball card hobby to move from catalog sales and card shows to e-commerce, Dean started one of the first strictly online sports card shops out of his basement. With his childhood collection, his dad's "doubles", and the support of his loving wife, Dean launched the website in early 2003. In May, deanscards.com recorded its first sale and hasn't stopped growing since!
Dean created Dean's Cards with collectors in mind. "I am a collector, just like our customers. My goal is to provide the ideal place to buy sports cards. We strive to make the experience fast, easy and fun. The whole Dean's Cards team has worked hard to provide the best selection of vintage cards available anywhere, toughly graded and at great prices."
Our Mission
The mission of Dean's Cards is to make collecting vintage sports cards Fast, Easy and Fun! We fulfill this mission by constantly striving to maintain the best eCommerce Shopping Experience, Product Selection, and Customer Service in the hobby. Specifically, we do this by: 1) designing the DeansCards.com eStore to be fast, secure and easy-to-use, 2) by having online inventory of over a million vintage sports cards, 3) a selection of 25,000 different complete sets, starter sets, and team sets for almost every vintage (1948 to 1980) sports card set, in several different conditions, 4) a knowledgeable, friendly team, 5) a 100% satisfaction guarantee on all purchases.
If you will give us the opportunity to earn your business, you will be glad that you did. We guarantee it. We love this hobby and work very hard to ensure that orders are shipped 100% correct, mailed within one business day and that the items sent are conservatively graded. If you are not happy for any reason, you may return your order for a full refund.
Our goal at Dean's Cards is to provide our customers with a simple, cost-effective and enjoyable way to build their collections. We have the largest online selection of baseball, football, basketball, hockey, and non-sports cards ranging in years from 1887 to the present. We also offer thousands of issues of Sports Illustrated, Sport Magazine, Baseball and Football Digest as well as vintage team yearbooks and media guides.
Our customers have given Dean's Cards 4.9 (out of a possible 5.0) stars on Google Customer Reviews. We are NOT a physical retail store that people can visit, so we were able to focus our efforts on designing and stocking a website that provides the best collecting experience possible.
