Hot-Button Topic: Panini America Prepares 2012 National Treasures Baseball (Gallery)

In the interest of full disclosure, know this: I didn't get to the office until after 1 p.m. today. But I have a really good excuse: I spent my entire morning -- and some of my afternoon -- over at the Panini America production facility as Stephanie Carlson, Ben Ecklar, Micah Layton and Carlos Torrez put the finishing touches on packout and quality control for 2012 National Treasures Baseball.

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In the interest of full disclosure, know this: I didn’t get to the office until after 1 p.m. today. But I have a really good excuse: I spent my entire morning — and some of my afternoon — over at the Panini America production facility as Stephanie Carlson, Ben Ecklar, Micah Layton and Carlos Torrez put the finishing touches on packout and quality control for 2012 National Treasures Baseball.

Truth be told, there’s no place else I’d rather be following a long weekend on the road — and over the course of the next several days, you’ll understand exactly why. Today, however, we have visual proof that Panini America’s most super-premium baseball product ever is all buttoned up and ready to go.

Indeed, among the  myriad magnificent memorabilia inclusions slated for 2012 National Treasures Baseball, perhaps the most unique, most visually arresting and most likely to start a conversation are the product’s many game-worn button cards. These rare cards (most are numbered to six or less) incorporate buttons from game-worn jerseys worn as recently as last season and as far back as early in the last century.

The checklist is a generation-spanning sensation that includes — among others — Bryce Harper and Yu Darvish, Lou Gehrig and Satchel Paige, Whitey Ford and Reggie Jackson, Nolan Ryan and George Brett, Burleigh Grimes and Yogi Berra and many, many more.

Below is a button-busting gallery of just some of these gems. Enjoy this first look and stay tuned to The Knight’s Lance in the coming days for more sneak peeks at 2012 National Treasures Baseball, due out in hobby shops next Wednesday.

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24 Replies to “Hot-Button Topic: Panini America Prepares 2012 National Treasures Baseball (Gallery)”

  1. Wow I don’t collect baseball but WOW!!! a whitey ford button patch would deffanatlly be a conversation starter for sure. Thanks for the gallery these are some sick cards.

  2. I rarely leave negative comments on here, but why oh WHY STICKER AUTOS? Your baseball fans should be treated as well as your hockey fans with far less sticker autos on cards… You know it’s a whole different feeling to know that the card itself was personally signed by the player.

  3. I love it!!!! You guys at Panini always set the bar high and that’s why you guys are the best in the business! Keep up the great work guys and my my daughters and I are SO pumped to open some National Treasures BSB!

  4. I have not had the luck of adding a button card to my personal collection yet but there are some amazing cards here that I would love to get. My Lou Gehrig collection will never be complete but I now have one more card to add to my Gehrig Bucket List.

  5. I love the picture on the Nolan Ryan button card, very unique. He tends to look intense in photos, it’s cool to see the lighter side of the Express.

  6. Stickers?????? 🙁 🙁 🙁
    When will panini listen. Nobody likes sticker autos..
    Make the cards earlier and send them to the players earlier, these very high end cards should be all on card.
    Otherwise they look great. Absolutely love the button cards. Ingenious!!!

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