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The Dog Walk

Sports Card Store Owner Breaks Down Exploding Collectibles Industry + Buying & Selling Advice

The Dog Walk

Barstool Sports

Society & Culture

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

On today's show we are joined by Ronnie Holloway from Elite Sports Card Chicago to give us a look into the sports card and collectibles industry from someone who's running a shop here in Chicago.


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0:00.0

Hey, Dog Walk listeners. You can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube.

0:06.3

Prime members can listen to Ad Free on Amazon Music.

0:09.6

All right, baby, man, today is Thursday. It's January 22nd. Welcome to Dog Walk presented by

0:13.7

Barcelona Sports. Before we get going here today, I want to talk to you guys about part of my

0:17.3

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0:57.7

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0:59.3

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1:02.9

Order in store or online or through the Penn Station app for delivery.

1:07.8

And welcome to the show everybody today.

1:10.0

My guest, I'm joined in studio by ronnie holloway

1:12.8

he is the owner of elite sports cards and comics ronny what's going on man thanks for being

1:17.6

doing thank you thank you for having me dude i'm excited so uh you have a couple shops here in

1:22.4

chicago you got one on the northwest side where i grew up at like harlem and addison yes and then

1:26.8

you got one on Montrose, right?

1:28.1

Correct.

1:28.5

That's our oldest shop.

1:29.9

That's our... On Montrose. Correct. That's the original. Original. So yeah, I was... I think I talked about it and yesterday's free swim, didn't I, Lance? Yep. That I've been kind of buying these things and kind of just researching and getting into it more so I was like you know what might be cool to have someone in so um I'm excited to kind

1:46.6

of chop it up so how was like, you know what? Might be cool to have someone in.

1:44.4

So I'm excited to kind of chop it up.

1:47.2

So how long have you been doing this, Ronnie?

1:49.3

I've been doing this for about 35 years.

1:53.5

Collecting since I was like 10 years old.

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