Panini Eternal’s ‘Mantle Monday’ Promotion Begins with The Mick’s Big-League Debut

Beginning later today, Panini America is using its Panini Eternal on-demand trading card platform to honor the legendary Mickey Mantle with a weekly initiative that just might make baseball fans and collectors start embracing a case of the Mondays. It's called "Mantle Monday," and every Monday for the next 15 weeks, Panini Eternal will launch a new card honoring a…

Legendary Ichiro Inks History-Making First Autographs for Panini America (Gallery)

From the day he first stepped foot on a major league diamond with the Seattle Mariners way back in 2001, Ichiro was a sweet-swinging, seemingly-overnight sensation. He was a national hero in Japan who traveled to the U.S. and became an international phenomenon during his debut season, becoming just the second player ever to win Rookie of the Year and MVP…

Panini America Readies Historic Derek Jeter Buy-Back Autographs for Future Releases

Leave it to iconic New York Yankees captain Derek Jeter to make history -- again. For the first time ever, one of the most beloved players in the storied history of pinstripes will have autographs in Panini America products beginning with the release of 2014 Classics Baseball on November 19. The autographs, buy-backs of original Donruss-branded cards dating back to…

The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2012 Prime Cuts Baseball (85 Images)

Imagine my surprise on Monday morning when Panini America Product Development Director Ben Ecklar shared with me 35 revealing images from the 2012 Prime Cuts Baseball quality-control process he'd just completed. Somewhere between Black Friday madness and the launches of 2012-13 Totally Certified Basketball and 2012-13 Prizm Basketball,  I had completely lost track of where Prime Cuts was on the…

Prime Time on Prime Cuts: Panini America’s Exclusive Interview with Deion Sanders

Electrifying. Entertaining. Explosive. Brash. Otherworldly. Pick an adjective. Better yet, pick them all. They all embody what "Prime Time" was – and remains -- all about. Deion Sanders exuded confidence and charisma during a brilliant career as the NFL’s preeminent shutdown corner and its most lethal return man. The fifth overall pick of the Atlanta Falcons in the 1989 NFL…