Meet the Dean's Cards Buying Team

Dean Hanley

Founder of Dean's Cards

In 2002, Dean founded Dean's Cards in his Cincinnati, OH basement. Using industry experience in marketing and software sales, Dean turned his life-long hobby of collecting baseball cards into a dream job.  The company hit the ground running and has remained Dean's full-time gig ever since, now boasting an inventory of over one million vintage cards.  Dean is considered one of the foremost experts on the subject of vintage baseball cards and wrote two books on vintage sports cards: The Bubble Gum Card War: The Great Bowman & Topps Sets from 1948 to 1955 and Before There Was Bubble Gum: Our Favorite Pre-World War I Baseball Cards, as well as several articles in Sports Collectors Digest.  He credits the company's success to top-line service and the integration of new technology with an old hobby.

Michelle Wall

Purchasing Manager

Michelle corresponds with sellers of vintage sports card collections regularly, working closely with Dean to acquire hundreds of private collections per year.  Additionally, Michelle has built more vintage sets than any other woman on the planet and manages the virtual construction of the more than 20,000 sets available online.  She oversees the maintenance of all set types including complete sets, near complete sets, starter sets, and team sets, as well as custom built sets.  

Dean's Cards maintains a staff of about 20 employees with an online inventory that has grown to well over one million vintage baseball, football, basketball, other sports cards.  With the largest company-owned inventory of vintage baseball cards in the world, Dean's Cards buys and sells more vintage sports cards than anyone else in the industry.  As the number of incoming collections grows tremendously each year, Dean leans on his talented team to keep the collections flowing and maintain the high level of service he insists on providing.