Cards Infinity, Big League Cards Showcase Panini America’s Hit-Filled June (Video)

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtWrQPBdY8c&w=600&h=338] The passing of another months brings with it another internet-spanning video recap highlighting some of June's biggest Panini America hits uncovered in local hobby shops across the country. This month, based on feedback from readers of The Knight's Lance, videographer Tom "The Ripper" Key focused his culling efforts largely on Chris Justice and Cards Infinity. In addition, Key…

Final Cuts: Panini America Offers One Last Pre-Release Look at 2011 Prime Cuts

We've shown you the history-making bat barrel cards, including the first for Shoeless Joe Jackson. We've shown you the otherworldly booklets that combine cut autographs and game-worn memorabilia from some of the greatest baseball players of all time. We've shown you a staggering assortment of prime-memorabilia cards that demands second and third and even fourth looks. Indeed, we've shown you…

Speechless Joe: A Gallery of 2011 Prime Cuts Baseball's Historic Barrel Cards & Booklets

You want to see Panini America Director of Baseball Product Development Ben Ecklar dance a jig? Bring him a sleeve of history-making Loop 7 cards to QC before they get randomly inserted into packs of 2011 Prime Cuts Baseball. Most days, Ecklar is reserved, soft-spoken and rarely prone to outward displays of emotion. But yesterday at the Panini America printing…

Prime Examples: Panini America Previews More Gems from 2011 Prime Cuts Baseball

If you thought last week's exclusive reveal of 2011 Prime Cuts Baseball was something special, well, you'd be right. But you haven't seen anything yet. Today, we continue our extended unveiling of Panini America's high-end, Hall of Fame-worthy MLBPA-licensed beauty that begins packing out in earnest this week. The following ensemble -- filled with some of the most beautifully designed,…

Preparing for Prime Time: Panini America Previews 2011 Prime Cuts Baseball

Crazy. Sick. Filthy. Nasty. Insane. Whatever one-word euphemisms you use to describe some of the most gorgeous trading cards ever produced, get them ready. You're going to need them as you peruse the gallery that follows previewing 2011 Prime Cuts Baseball and some of the craziest, sickest, filthiest, nastiest, most insane baseball cards you've ever seen. (more…)

The Great Panini America Spring Training Autograph Tour of 2012 Hits Arizona

For those who may have missed the first posts on The Knight’s Lance, Panini America Baseball Acquisitions specialist Tone Stakes is making the rounds at spring training right now securing autographs for Panini America’s upcoming MLBPA-licensed products, primarily 2011 Limited and 2011 Prime Cuts. To help bring collectors as close as possible to the action, Stakes has been documenting his high-profile sit-down sessions, including the following new dispatch documenting…

New Autos from Hockey, Hardball Highlight Panini America's Latest Mail Days

We get the sense that Panini America baseball and hockey collectors are growing restless. After all, while basketball and football collectors are currently enjoying the new-release spoils of such products as 2011 Preferred Basketball and 2011 Totally Certified Football, those waiting patiently for, say, 2011-12 Contenders Hockey, 2011-12 Elite Hockey or 2011 Prime Cuts Baseball are left counting down the…

Sign of Things to Come: Peeking New Autos for 2011 Prime Cuts & Limited Baseball

  Over the last few weeks we've shared just some of the highlights from Panini America's great "Spring Training Autograph Tour of 2012," compliments of Acquisitions Manager Tone Stakes as he makes the rounds in Florida and Arizona. In previous dispatches, Stakes has shared behind-the-scenes anecdotes, images of the players signing and even a few card sneak peeks. But today, we're…

The Great Panini America Spring Training Tour of 2012 Continues with More Autos

For those who may have missed the post on The Knight's Lance last weekend, Panini America Baseball Acquisitions specialist Tone Stakes is making the rounds at spring training right now securing autographs for Panini America's upcoming MLBPA-licensed products, primarily 2011 Limited and 2011 Prime Cuts. To help bring collectors as close as possible to the action, Stakes has been documenting…
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