iCollectPanini.com, Panini America Launch Online-Only “Fall Heroes” Promotion
It's baaaaack. The World Series? Sure. But it's the iCollectPanini.com promotion that just launched this afternoon in conjunction with the 2013 Fall Classic that has all of us here inside Panini America HQ really pumped. In the true championship tradition of iCollectPanini.com's other successful promotions surrounding the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals and the Stanley Cup Finals, the company hits the…
2013 Hometown Heroes Baseball Shines in a Panini Unwrapped Saturday Image Hunt
During an otherwise average Friday afternoon inside Panini America HQ yesterday, Tracy Hackler and Tim Trout made the time to bust one utterly entertaining box -- hey, aren't they all? -- of the new 2013 Hometown Heroes Baseball for this special episode of Panini Unwrapped. With Hackler fittingly festooned in a throwback, circa-1994 Vance Johnson Denver Broncos jersey and Trout supporting…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2013 Hometown Heroes Baseball
Over the last month or so we've shown you extended glimpses of the old-school charm at the very heart of the throwback-tinged 2013 Hometown Heroes Baseball set. And while the nostalgia may be most noticeable on the design and checklist of the hard-signed Hometown Signatures insert, the product is a bona fide blast from the past from the first card to…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Cracks One Early Box of 2013 Cooperstown Baseball
Simply put, there's a refreshing old-meets-new dynamic within each box -- and almost within every pack -- of Panini America's 2013 Cooperstown Baseball that makes the first pack as entertaining and educational to open as the last. And after just ripping through all 24 packs of an early hobby box, we can say for certain that there's also an abundance…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2013 Cooperstown Baseball (99 Images)
Since the act of taking inventory of everything that's cool about Panini America's 2013 Cooperstown Baseball -- a shining tribute to the greatest players and personalities in Hall of Fame history -- would likely take up most of your weekend, The Knight's Lance is going to do it for you. All you have to do is sit back and enjoy…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Breaks First Box of 2013 Pinnacle Baseball
With the long-awaited return of the venerable Pinnacle Baseball brand now just two days away, it's time to assume full ramp-up mode in advance of Wednesday's official release date. To that end, we grabbed one golden early box of 2013 Pinnacle Baseball earlier this afternoon and opened it to our heart's content. Twenty-four packs, 192 cards and an immeasurably pleasurable…
Panini Peek: 2013 Cooperstown Baseball
You just knew that Panini America's 2012 Cooperstown Baseball, one of last season's most history-steeped baseball releases, would raise the bar with its highly anticipated encore. 2013 Cooperstown Baseball is slated to go live in mid August and once again this season will pay homage to the greatest baseball players of all time with another legendary assortment of on-card autographs,…
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…
Panini America’s New Ink: Elite Basketball Inscriptions, National Treasures Baseball
You want to see something really cool? Well, good . . . because I have something really cool to show you. I just got back to my desk after spending the last 15 or 20 blissful minutes in the acquisitions vault perusing the newest on-card autograph arrivals that have hit Panini America HQ this week. I have seen -- more…