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Thursday, February 24, 2011

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Sports Memorabilia Store Owner Plays His Cards Well

Doug Gross has expanded from baseball cards into more diverse sports memorabilia.

Chesterfield Baseball Cards and Framing, located in Chesterfield Mall, is stocked with the expected: plenty of baseball cards. There's cards in protective plastic cases and loose cards, autographed cards and non-autographed cards, valuable cards and not-so-valuable cards, rare cards and common cards. But there's much more there, too. There's autographed footballs, baseballs, hockey pucks and bats. There's framed photographs, plaques and art. Three small statues of Albert Pujols, Lou Brock and Stan Musial stand side by side near a goalie mask signed by St. Louis Blues players that stares out from behind glass like the monster in a horror film. The anomaly of a Leave It To Beaver dinner plate and a Garth Brooks-signed CD tell you that there …

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