Beloved Houston baseball card shop joins list of businesses we'll miss

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This week the Houston Chronicle’s David Barron talked to Larry Dluhy at his store Sports Collectibles of Houston, which closes up shop this weekend after 36 years of supplying Houstonians young and old with baseball cards and memorabilia.

At one point Dluhy had five stores in Houston, Austin and San Antonio. Now they are no more.

There are plenty of Houstonians who have fond memories of walking into Dluhy’s shop with allowance dollars hoping to score a Craig Biggio or Jeff Bagwell rookie card.

As Barron writes, eBay and other online retailers now command many of the customers that used to walk into stores like Sports Collectibles of Houston. Dluhy, 67, will continue to sell items on his dedicated eBay outpost but that’s not the same as being able to walk into a shop and talk baseball with an actual person.

Dluhy’s shop will no doubt be remembered as one of Houston’s most dearly departed businesses. For more bygone businesses we'll always miss, check out the slideshow above.