Panini America Highlights Two Super-Rare Legends in 2012 Cooperstown Baseball

When it comes to relative scarcity in the modern sports card arena, certain cards rank as tough pulls, others are tougher still and a precious few are so needle-in-a-haystack rare that they seem to be nothing more than rumors. Two special cards in Panini America's recently released 2012 Cooperstown Baseball fall into that last category. These previously unannounced inclusions honoring…

Special Panini Unwrapped Double Feature: 2012 Cooperstown & 2012 Signature Series

Late yesterday afternoon, Panini America's Tracy Hackler sat down with company baseball aficionados Mike Payne and Ben Ecklar, one after the other, to bust some early boxes of the long-awaited 2012 Cooperstown Baseball and the live-today 2012 Signature Series Baseball. Two dramatically different products, both with their own considerable merits and packed with enough pop, pomp, circumstance and history to…

The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2012 Cooperstown Baseball (71 Images)

Last week we gave you a tip-of-the-iceberg teaser starring the shipped-at-last 2012 Cooperstown Baseball. Today, we're bringing you a magnificent full reveal showcasing the unique product officially licensed by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum that showcases some of the greatest players, personalities and memorabilia in baseball history. Each box of 2012 Cooperstown Baseball is like a fantasy trip…

Panini America Peeks the Famous Moments Insert in 2012 Cooperstown Baseball

For the myriad National Baseball Hall of Fame members permeating the checklist for Panini America's upcoming 2012 Cooperstown Baseball, there is one insert set in particular that pays tribute not so much to the greatest players in baseball history,  but to the memorabilia they wielded while achieving that greatness. The poignant Famous Moments insert provides fans and collectors with something…

Hall’s Hallowed Vets Honored with Patriotic Insert in 2012 Cooperstown Baseball

As Americans from coast to coast take time today to celebrate the Fourth of July (with food, family, fireworks, fun and perhaps even a few fastballs), we thought now was the perfect time to preview the patriotic With Honors insert slated for Panini America's upcoming 2012 Cooperstown Baseball. The star-spangled 10-card chase honors those heroic members of the National Baseball…

Panini America’s Hall of Fame-Focused 2012 Cooperstown Baseball Begins to Take Shape

It's been awhile since we first previewed 2012 Cooperstown Baseball here on The Knight's Lance. But in the five weeks or so since that initial sneak peek, the Hall of Fame-focused product resulting from Panini America's new multiyear partnership with the National Baseball Hall of Fame has come together quite nicely. Every day it seems, we're we're on the receiving…

Panini Peek: 2012 Cooperstown Baseball

In February, Panini America inked a multiyear trading card agreement with the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Almost immediately after that announcement, company officials set out to create a unique product devoted to and befitting the men and memorabilia lining the Hall's hallowed halls. The result: 2012 Panini Cooperstown Baseball, a stand-alone, 24-packs-per-box tribute to the greatest players…