The Duuuval Card Show is a one-day Jacksonville card show built around buying, selling, trading, and spending time with the local hobby community. The July 2026 edition is scheduled at Adam W. Herbert University Center with free admission, free parking, a charity raffle, and a larger show floor promoted at 150+ vendor tables.
Hosted on the University of North Florida campus, The Duuuval Card Show gives Northeast Florida collectors a central place to browse cards in person without turning the day into a long road trip. The organizer describes this as a mixed show with sports cards and TCGs, and the flyer also points collectors toward Pokémon and One Piece alongside major sports-card brands.
A Full Day of Cards & Collectibles
The main draw for The Duuuval Card Show is the table-style browsing experience. With 150+ vendor tables promoted for the July date, collectors can expect a busy room where showcases, boxes, binders, sealed products, slabs, and trade cases are all part of the day. For sports cards collectors, that can mean looking for modern rookies, inserts, autographs, vintage baseball, football singles, graded cards, and team-player pieces that are easier to compare in person than through photos online.
For Pokémon and other TCGs, the in-person format is especially useful because condition, centering, surface marks, and binder presentation matter. The official event copy highlights everything from vintage baseball rookies to recent Pokémon hits, while the flyer includes One Piece as part of the broader trading-card mix. Other TCGs may appear depending on the vendor lineup, but the confirmed direction is clear: this is meant to be a mixed hobby room, not a sports-only or TCG-only event.
Because the show is framed around buying, selling, and trading, collectors can use the day in several ways. Some will come ready to dig through value boxes, some will bring duplicates or slabs to move, and others will use the floor to compare prices before making a bigger pickup. The advantage is being able to hold the card, ask questions, negotiate directly, and see what Jacksonville-area dealers and collectors are actually bringing to the room.
More Than Just a Card Show
The Duuuval Card Show is also positioned as a community event. The organizer's recent post thanked attendees from the prior weekend and highlighted the joy around the show's picture zone, which gives the series a more social feel than a simple row of vendor tables. For July, the flyer calls out a charity raffle, and the official site repeats that raffle language alongside the full-day show description.
That matters for families and newer collectors. A card show can feel intimidating when the room is filled with showcases and price tags, but a free-admission format lowers the barrier to walking in, browsing, asking questions, and learning how local shows work. Free parking also makes the event easier to treat as a casual Saturday stop, especially for collectors bringing kids or friends who may only be starting to understand the hobby.
The venue adds another practical layer. Adam W. Herbert University Center is a meeting and event facility on the University of North Florida campus, and venue information from UNF notes complimentary parking for Herbert University Center program participants. That lines up with the show flyer's free parking callout and should help attendees plan for a straightforward arrival.
A Show for All Levels of Collectors
Beginners can use The Duuuval Card Show to learn what different cards look like in hand, how prices vary by condition, and how vendors organize boxes, slabs, sealed products, and display-case cards. Walking the floor also makes it easier to ask simple questions without committing to a purchase right away.
Casual collectors may treat the event as a local hunt for PC cards, affordable singles, team lots, or a few packs. Serious collectors can spend more time comparing copies, checking edges and corners, working trades, or asking dealers about higher-end inventory that may not be sitting out front. The announced 150+ vendor tables should give both groups enough room to browse at their own pace.
For sports cards fans, July is a useful time to look across baseball, football, basketball, and multi-sport inventory as summer collecting momentum continues. For Pokémon, One Piece, and other TCGs, a mixed show can be a good place to check singles, sealed products, and trade binders while also seeing what nearby collectors are chasing. None of that requires a complicated plan: bring a want list, know your budget, and leave time to circle back before deciding on bigger purchases.
Final Thoughts
The Duuuval Card Show is shaping up to be a great day for collectors in Jacksonville and the surrounding area. If you attend, let the organizer or other attendees know you found the show on Card Show Dex, and stay tuned for more upcoming events across Florida.
Keep an eye on the full Jacksonville card show calendar for upcoming local dates.