Crickets Grand Slam

We are a hobby shop in Old Gahanna specializing in Cards, Games, and other collectibles. Cricket’s Treasure Chest was originally founded in the summer of 1992 by Walter Lemaster at 4059 Wayne Street in Hilliard Ohio. The name Cricket comes from the n...

We are a hobby shop in Old Gahanna specializing in Cards, Games, and other collectibles. Cricket’s Treasure Chest was originally founded in the summer of 1992 by Walter Lemaster at 4059 Wayne Street in Hilliard Ohio. The name Cricket comes from the nickname that Walter's wife Gladys wore proudly. During this time, Walter specialized in toys, dolls, and other collectibles. In 1994, Walter acquired a baseball card shop that was located in the same building that Cricket's Treasure Chest was in. He then auctioned off the inventory of Cricket's Treasure Chest and moved into the space formerly occupied by the baseball card shop. It was also at this time that Cricket's Treasure Chest was renamed Cricket's Grand Slam Sports Cards. The shop stayed in the original Wayne Street location until 2007 when it moved to Parkway Lane in Hilliard. A few years later, the shop was closed. Fast-forward to 2020, Cricket’s Grand Slam has been reorganized and opened under the ownership of Walter’s great-grandson, Jon Upchurch. An avid collector and player of many trading card games, a passion that stemmed from years of seeing and participating with his great-grandfather in the original Cricket's store. Along with selling and enjoying the card's themselves, he is also an official Konami judge for the Yu-Gi-Oh TCG. While Jon still sells the classic sports cards that his grandfather loved, he has begun to shift focus away from a sole sports cards store and primarily deal in trading cards and board games, but sports cards will always be available within the shop.