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Dean and Marilyn Bapes

Dean and Marilyn Bapes

Dean and Marilyn have been collectors since they were kids. Born and raised on the South Side, the White Sox were their favorite baseball team. Some of their Sports Heroes are Aparicio, Fox, Landis, Minoso, Mantle, Maris, and football greats like Unitas. They started doing card shows out of their garage, then set up at card shows. They opened their first store in 1991 in Aurora moving to Naperville in 1996. They expanded in 2002 by adding the 4U2Room to accomodate meetings signings, parties, and gaming tournaments and in May of 2011 they  relocated to 2035 South Washington Street, Suite #155 in Naperville.

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