Trading card shop adds excitement to old hobby
Nick Jaspersen, left, and his dad Mike at Jaspy’s Sports Cards and Collectibles, their Hermosa Beach store. Photo There is a decent chance that, as you read this article, people from all over the United States are logging on to their computers to watch packages be opened inside a Hermosa Beach storefront. That store is Jaspy’s Sports Cards and Collectibles, a recently opened shop on Pacific Coast Highway specializing in trading cards. And those package openings are known as “case breaks” in the trading card lingo: a streamed experience in which card aficionados watch to find out what’s inside. Jaspy’s is a traditional retail store, with shiny display cases and pennants on the wall, but it’s also at the leading edge of a practice that has transformed the trading card world. Case breaks allow multiple people to “buy-in” and split the price of a case of cards, which can contain varying numbers of traditional packs. Purchasers often will ask for all of the cards featuring players of a certain team. But part of the excitement is that they don’t know ahead of time what that will mean. “There could be a $5,000 Dodgers card or a $5 Dodgers card. You just don’t know,” said Nick Jaspersen…
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