A Panini America 2013 Father’s Day Update: More Prizms, More Pylons, More Pigskin
Never underestimate the overwhelmingly collectible byproducts that can arise from a good, old-fashioned R&D session. After all, it was nothing more than pointed experimentation with how different finishes affect Panini America's Prizm technology that generated many of the limited-edition cards coming to next month's 2013 Father's Day set. Some of them you've already seen in a previous gallery. Today, we're…
Special Prizms Deliver Psychedelic Twist to Panini America’s 2013 Father’s Day Set
With Panini America's 2013 Father's Day promotion now just more than a month away, you can expect The Knight's Lance to begin pulling the curtain back in a big way regarding everything we have in store for this year's nationwide wrapper-redemption program. Last week we brought you a glimpse of the base and insert sets planned for the promotion. Today, things take…
2012 Prizm Baseball Stars in Sunday Edition of Panini Unwrapped (Scavenger Hunt)
With seemingly every new release, Panini America's Prizm technology continues etching its place deeper and deeper into the sweet spot of America's collecting conscious. The phenomenon that began with 2012-13 Prizm Basketball and continued with 2012 Prizm Football added a new chapter last week with the release of 2012 Prizm Baseball. Late last week, Panini America's Tracy Hackler and Tim…
Pitch Man: Panini America’s Exclusive Chat with Nationals Star Stephen Strasburg
Late last month, just one day after Panini America announced that it had inked Washington Nationals superstar Stephen Strasburg to an exclusive autographed trading card deal, Tone Stakes was in Florida conducting the company's first signing with the pitching sensation. Strasburg's first order of business that day was signing his premiere Panini America autographs for 2012 Prizm Baseball. His second…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Cracks First Two Boxes of 2012 Prizm Baseball
It likely goes without saying at this point that tomorrow is a big day on the Panini America baseball diamond. It's the official release date for 2012 Prizm Baseball, the latest iteration of the company's popular Prizm technology that has graced the absolutely scorching releases of 2012-13 Prizm Basketball and 2012 Prizm Football. 2012 Prizm Baseball delivers the deeply etched…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2012 Prizm Baseball (Prizms & Autographs)
If you thought yesterday's QC coverage of 2012 Prizm Baseball's base cards and base inserts was a sight to behold, well, you're right. But that was merely a saliva-starting table-setter for today's preview of the set's majestic Prizm parallels (including the base Prizms, Golds and retail-only Greens). The enchanting power of Prizm's calling-card parallels is on brilliant display in the…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2012 Prizm Baseball (Base Cards & Inserts)
Perhaps partially obscured this week by the hobby-wide wave of 2012 National Treasures Football wonderment is the fact that another highly anticipated Panini America release -- 2012 Prizm Baseball -- is on the verge of its own celebrated release. In fact, the product began shipping to hobby outlets late last week and will be live next Wednesday. In anticipation of…
Stephen Strasburg, Panini America Present Golden Glimpse at 2012 Prizm Baseball
While many Panini America officials were putting the finishing touches on another show-stealing appearance at the 2013 Industry Summit in Las Vegas on Wednesday, the company's Baseball Acquisitions specialist, Tone Stakes, was busy in Arizona meeting with Panini America's newest exclusive athlete: Washington Nationals superstar Stephen Strasburg. On this particular day, Strasburg and Stakes were putting the finishing touches on…
BREAKING: Panini America Inks Exclusive Autograph Deal with Stephen Strasburg
LAS VEGAS -- Panini America, the world’s largest sports and entertainment collectibles company, announced today that it has reached an exclusive multiyear autograph agreement with Washington Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg. The deal grants Panini America the exclusive rights to produce autographed trading cards of Strasburg, a 15-game winner in 2012 who led the Nationals to the NL East title and…
Panini America Offers a Deeper Look Inside the Upcoming 2012 Prizm Baseball
Some 24 hours later, it's still hard to decipher which created bigger reverberations yesterday: Panini America's 2012 National Treasures Baseball going live or Panini America announcing that it would be releasing 2012 Prizm Baseball in a few short months. Regardless of which development you appreciated most, there's no denying that both were headline grabbers in the trading card industry. But…