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Griffey Guy

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Griffey Gal

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GG2

About Matt

Matt has been in the sports cards business for over 20 years. He set up at his 1st card show in 2000 at the Clarion Inn in Bentonville, Arkansas. This hotel has changed names several times since 2000, and is now called Four Points by Sheraton, where we host our Bentonville shows. (Kinda nostalgic, huh?)

Matt set up at his first National in Chicago at the 2015 National Sports Collectors Convention. Matt has continually participated, having booths in 2017, 2019, & 2021.

Matt has always been a Griffey fan, as he respected the way he played the game. This was during the steroid era where Griffey was one of the few players who played the game the right way. Matt also has always admired the sweetest and most famous swing in the history of the game.

Matt enjoys meeting and talking with people. He also loves learning stories about others collections. Matt strongly preaches how relationships with people mean so much more than money in this industry. That value is one that Matt lives by everyday.

About Katie

Katie has been in the sports card business since 2018. When attending her first card show in Springfield, Mo she felt very uncomfortable. Katie would read magazines to get through the shows. However she has come to love the shows. She now purchases and has a personal collection of cards.

One of Katies favorite players to collect is Emmitt Smith, she has a personal collection full of his cards. Katie has also developed a love for basketball cards and seeks to learn more about them everyday.

Katie loves to meet the many people she interacts with at card shows. She has discovered many new people that she now considers close friends. One of Katies favorite parts about the sports card community is that everyone is like a family.

Katie enjoys customer service and hopes to continue to be involved with the card community for a long time to come.

How We Started

After meeting in 2017, they began participating in card shows together. In 2019 Katie and Matt got married.

The name of Griffey Guy was chosen in 2019. It came after customers continually asked “Aren’t you the guy with the Griffey’s”, this went on for over a year.

This sparked an idea, Katie began to secure the name, emails, and website. Together they began to develop a brand.

After this idea, Matt began to go by the name of Griffey Guy. It only made sense that as Katie was always with him, she would be known as Griffey Gal.

Together they became known as Griffey Guy and Griffey Gal.

The Founding Of GG2

On June 19, 2019, Matt and Katie started hosting GG2 Shows in Bentonville, Arkansas. Currently the show is being held in Bentonville, Arkansas.

Since 2019 they have hosted many shows. In just three years alone they have grown from 50 tables to over 175 tables.

Matt and Katie cannot wait to see where this journey will continue to take them.