{"id":100883,"date":"2025-07-29T02:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T02:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/100883\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T02:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T02:04:08","slug":"replay-sports-cards-to-donate-1-million-cards-to-chicago-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/100883\/","title":{"rendered":"Replay Sports Cards to donate 1 million cards to Chicago youth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carolina Panthers kicker Eddy Pi\u00f1eiro drops off a Replay Gives Back donation at the Boys and Girls Club in Charlotte, N.C. This week, Replay Sports Cards will donate 1 million cards to more than 40,000 youth in Chicago to “grow the hobby” of card collecting. Photo by Replay Sports Cards<\/p>\n

July 28 (UPI) — A national sports card franchise plans to donate 1 million cards to more than 40,000 youth and teens in Chicago to “grow the hobby” of card collecting and “spark the sense of wonder in a kid opening their first pack.”<\/p>\n

Replay Sports Cards, which is dedicated exclusively to card collecting, will make the donation this week<\/a> at the 2025 National Sports Card Convention in Rosemont, Ill. The convention runs from Wednesday through Sunday at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center.\n<\/p>\n

“We’re passionate about growing the hobby and making it more accessible,” said Mike Martin, co-founder of Replay. “Too many children are priced out of collecting today, and we want to change that.”<\/p>\n

“Replay Gives Back” will donate the cards to youth-focused organizations, including the Boys & Girls Club of Chicago and Noah’s Arc Foundation.\n<\/p>\n

“The excitement of opening a pack of cards is timeless, and Replay Gives Back is our way of sharing that joy with kids who’ve never had the chance,” said Brent Schepel, co-founder of Replay. “It’s about inclusion, generosity and building the future of the hobby, one card — and one child — at a time.”\n<\/p>\n

While Replay encouraged convention attendees and collectors to bring their unwanted cards, the company has already taken in more than 1.5 million trading card donations<\/a> — including Upper Deck, Topps and Pok\u00e9mon — since launching the campaign last November.<\/p>\n

“We’re seeing a tidal wave of new interest in sports cards, and we built Replay to meet that wave with the infrastructure and innovation today’s collectors expect,” said Mike Weinberger, co-founder and president of franchising for Replay.<\/p>\n

“But none of it matters if we don’t bring new generations into the hobby. At its core, Replay Gives Back is about expanding access,” Weinberger continued.<\/p>\n

“Sparking that sense of wonder in a kid opening their first pack,” Martin added, “there’s nothing like it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carolina Panthers kicker Eddy Pi\u00f1eiro drops off a Replay Gives Back donation at the Boys and Girls Club…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":100884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[64,960,5386,1818,52,1439],"class_list":{"0":"post-100883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-u-s"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114934072318681275","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}