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Ephrata Lions Club

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Sports Card Show and Auction (General Information)

Our 34th Annual Sports Card Show and Auction

Saturday, March 23, 2013

Ephrata Recreation Center (click here for directions)
130 South Academy Drive, Ephrata, PA 17522
(near the intersection of routes US 322 and PA 272)

Autograph session 11:00 to 1:00 featuring former Philadelphia Phillies pitcher and 1987 N.L. Cy Young Award winner Steve Bedrosian. Steve Bedrosian's appearance is sponsored by the Ephrata Lions Club.

Approximately forty sports memorabilia dealers will be present to buy, sell, and trade baseball cards and other sports-related items. In addition, representatives from the Reading Fightin Phils will also be present.

Proceeds benefit Ephrata Area youth sports programs and the Ephrata Recreation Center. This show and auction helps enable Ephrata area boys and girls to participate in the local baseball, softball, and lacrosse programs.

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• Blue Ridge Communications and Cable-11
• Ensinger Printing
• Ephrata National Bank
• The Ephrata Review
• Fox 43
• Hampton Inn & Suites (Ephrata)
• Lily's On Main
• The Shopping News

Admission:

• $4.00 for Adults
• $1.00 for children under 12

Autographs:

• Former Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Steve Bedrosian will sign autographs between 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
• Autograph policies: $15.00 for one autograph, $25.00 for two, with no limit. Only four hundred (400) autographs will be sold. Additional autographs will be sold if time permits.
• Autograph sales stop at 12:30 p.m., and you must be in the autograph line by 12:45.
• No mail orders accepted. No advanced sales. No exceptions (so please don't ask).
• Steve Bedrosian appears courtesy of the Ephrata Lions Club.

Sports Memorabilia Auction:

• Quality auction will begin at approximately 2:30 p.m., featuring individual cards, complete card sets, sports publications, photographs, bobbin' heads, figurines, baseballs, souvenirs, and other sports memorabilia.
• Auction includes autographs by various past and present professional athletes and sports stars.
• IMPORTANT: Live auction only. Bidders must be present to bid. No telephone or proxy bids accepted.
• Payment terms are cash and local check (with proper government-issued photo ID). Credit cards are not accepted.
• No reserves, no buyers' premium.
• Donation or consignment items for the auction will be accepted through November 30 of the previous year. Please contact Jack Forney (see below).
• Auctioneer, David F. Birmingham, AU-2127-L.

The auction list is available on our 'Card Show (Auction)' web page.

Dealer Information:

Requests for additional tables will be granted if availability exists. Dealer table pooling is not permitted. The fee schedule for dealer tables is as follows:

• 1 table --- $65
• 2 tables -- $120
• 3 tables -- $170
• 4 tables -- $210

$5 discount per table for payment received by December 31. (Listed base table fees during January.) $5 surcharge per table for payment received after January 31. Table reservations are forfeited if payment is not received by February 15. Dealers receives 1 autograph per paid table.

However, all tables are currently reserved (sold out). Contact us to be placed on the waiting list in case of cancellations or for the following year's show (usually the last Saturday of March -- next year's show is March 29, 2014).

Pennsylvania Sales Tax numbers are required of all dealers. Dealer setup times will be 6:30 pm to 8:15 pm Friday evening, and 6:30 am to 8:15 am Saturday morning.

Card Show Contacts:

• Jack Forney, telephone 717-733-4001 (primary contact for the auction)
• Brad Lauderman, telephone 717-733-6810, fax 586-279-0984, e-mail cardshow@ephratalions.org

Our Location

Map courtesy of MapQuest.

Ephrata Recreation Center
130 South Academy Drive, Ephrata, PA 17522
(near the intersection of routes US 322 and PA 272)

Last Revised: March 15, 2013.

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