Day 3 Begins in iCollectPanini.com’s 13 Days of Christmas Sale (50% Off 2013 Baseball)

iCollectPanini.com, the official online store of Panini America, is getting into the holiday spirit in a huge “Ho, Ho, Ho!” kind of way with its “13 Days of Christmas Specials” initiative that will provide 13 unique, one-day offers between now and December 20. Each special offer will be available for 24 hours only (or while supplies last). Today, collectors can…

Name That Voice: Golden Age Baseball Stars in Contest Edition of Panini Unwrapped

Panini America's Chris Reed sat down (from behind the camera) with Baseball Product Development Manager Mike Payne and Baseball Acquisitions Manager Tone Stakes for a special unveil of the released-yesterday 2013 Golden Age Baseball. In addition to pulling some of the most heroic baseball stars from the past, Payne and Stakes also provide an inside look into a checklist that combines…

Teaser Gallery: Panini America Breaks Early Box of 2013 Golden Age Baseball

Panini America's 2013 Golden Age Baseball is set to go live in hobby shops across North America on Wednesday, which means we're now mere hours away from one of the most eclectic, entertaining, vast, varied and value-delivered baseball releases of the season. 2013 Golden Age Baseball picks up where last year's maiden voyage left off, with more Three Stooges, the…

‘Find It!’ Friday: Win Boxes of 2013 Prestige, Golden Age in Panini America’s New Hunt

Next Wednesday promises to be a huge day for Panini America as both 2013 Prestige Football and 2013 Golden Age Baseball hit hobby shops boasting a magical combination of old-school Americana (Golden Age's Bad News Bears and Bo Derek, for example) and the newest, sweetest, hottest football cards on the planet with Prestige. But we're not waiting until Wednesday. We're…

The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2013 Golden Age Baseball (121 Sweet Pics)

The great thing about a product like Panini America's 2013 Golden Age Baseball is, well, everything. Delivering easily one of the most eclectic and enjoyable card-collecting experiences since last year's Golden Age, the polished sequel picks up where that one left off with one of the most diverse checklists imaginable. From Bob Hope and Bo Derek to "The Bad News…

Bo Derek to Kobe Bryant: A Special Father’s Day Peek at Panini America’s Newest Autos

On a day when we celebrate great dads everywhere, Panini America is offering a special preview of the newest autographs that have arrived at company headquarters in recent days. From a pair of monumental actors we've seen on film (Bo Derek and Penny Marshall) to some downright crazy-cool NBA cards including actual pieces of film, there's a lot of on-card…

Bears Necessity: Panini America to Produce First-Ever ‘Bad News Bears’ Trading Cards

It's hard to believe almost 40 years have passed since the seminal spring/summer blockbuster "The Bad News Bears" first graced the silver screen. The surprisingly raw 1976 comedy about a ragtag bunch of low-talent little leaguers and their hapless hired-gun manager gave eternal hope to underdogs everywhere and remains a cult classic more than three decades later. Later this month,…

Happy Day: The Fonz, Greg Brady and More Show Up at Panini America HQ (Gallery)

Days like today are precisely why working at Panini America is akin to some adrenaline-riddled romp on a white-knuckled roller coaster ride that makes a loop-to-loop through Christmas morning before coming to a stop in a candy store. Funny what the arrival of hard-signed autographs from the likes of Henry Winkler, Barry Williams, Barry Switzer, Curly Neal and so many others…

At Long Last: Revisiting the Panini America Routing Table and its Golden Age Glimpses

Here's one sure sign that it's been way too long since we last visited the fabled Panini America Routing Table: It's not even a table anymore. It's been upgraded to a full-blown Routing Section, wedged neatly into a lightly trafficked hallway between the Product Development and Prepress departments. In any event, I ventured back there earlier this week to see what…

Panini Peek: 2013 Golden Age Baseball

By many accounts, Panini America's 2012 Golden Age Baseball was one of the most eclectic and entertaining new products of last season, helped immensely by, among other things, a stacked checklist of base cards, autographs and memorabilia that was as historic as it was fun, a hardcore throwback feel, a collectible cache of minis and card-back variations . . .…