Panini America Delivers Detailed First Look at 2017 Stars & Stripes USA Baseball
After a long season away, Panini America's popular Stars & Stripes USA Baseball product is returning to the diamond in 2017 surrounded in the patriotic pageantry of the USA Baseball organization. Set to arrive in hobby shops across North America in mid March, 2017 Stars & Stripes USA Baseball (eight cards per pack, five packs per box, 20 boxes per…
Revamped 2016 Elite Extra Edition Baseball Stars in New Episode of Panini Unwrapped
Panini America's completely revamped 2016 Elite Extra Edition Baseball released earlier this week equipped with a bold new packaging configuration (five cards per pack, five packs per box) and a hit-heavy scheme that makes for a box-break experience unlike the Elite Extra Edition brand has ever seen. To illustrate that point, Panini America's Tracy Hackler and Tim Trout sat down…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Breaks Four Boxes of 2016 Elite Extra Edition Baseball
It wasn't like Panini America's popular Elite Extra Edition Baseball franchise needed a radical overhaul. For the better part of the past 13 years, the product has endeared itself to prospectors looking for early trading cards and autographs of baseball's future superstars. But after years of more-traditional packaging and value configurations, Panini America's Baseball Product Development team set out to boldly remake…
Panini America Provides Veterans Day Peek at the Upcoming 2016 Black Friday Set
Throughout the month of November in stadiums across the country, the NFL’s biggest on-field heroes will honor the real-life heroes of our nation’s military as the league once again continues its poignant Salute to Service tribute to veteran and active-duty members of the United States Armed Forces. For every point scored during each of the NFL’s 32 designated Salute to Service…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2015 Contenders Baseball (147 Pics)
One week from today in hobby shops across North America, Panini America's ink- and awesome-packed 2015 Contenders Baseball will release to a hungry collector base ready to feast on the product's unique combination of autographs, a prospect-packed checklist, perennially popular parallels, old-school college photography, USA Baseball stars and much more. The Panini America Baseball Product Development team spent a good…
Chicago’s Youth Movement Powers a Special Playoff Edition of Panini Price Index
With baseball's postseason nearing the final two teams, it's apparent that youth is king and there's one clear favorite on cardboard within this latest edition of the Panini Price Index. [caption id="attachment_118820" align="alignleft" width="100"] Sold for $1,000[/caption] The Chicago Cubs' powerful rookies -- Kris Bryant and Kyle Schwarber in particular -- have been generating plenty of interest in the secondary market,…
Panini America, USA Baseball Grade High in First Round of 2015 MLB Draft (Gallery)
Last night in New Jersey, Major League Baseball celebrated the landmark 50th anniversary of its annual First-Year Player Draft, creating a raucous Secaucus as the game's bright future took center stage. In the process, several of Panini America's recent USA Baseball releases also commanded major attention. Indeed, when the Arizona Diamondbacks selected Vanbderbilt shortstop and former USA Baseball star Dansby Swanson with…
Gallery: Panini America Rips Retail Versions of 2015 Stars & Stripes USA Baseball, Prizm
For any number of legitimate reasons, we spend a lot of time here on The Knight's Lance showcasing the hobby side of our products. That's not to say we look past their retail counterparts; we absolutely don't. Our products are quite like our children: We love them all equally and we love them a lot. And today, we aim to…
Prizm in Progress: Panini America Reveals a Visual Update on 2015 Prizm Baseball Autos
While collectors across North America anxiously await the triumphant return of Diamond Kings Baseball on April 29, we had to find something to pass the time for collectors of America's pastime. So we took a walk to the Panini America autograph vault in the back of the building to see what we could find. What we found were the latest…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Breaks Early Box of 2015 Stars & Stripes USA Baseball
Although today's arrival of 2014 National Treasures Football will most certainly steal more than its share of this week's new-release headlines, Panini America's 2015 Stars & Stripes USA Baseball should have no problem finding its own willing, captivated audience. Releasing Friday, 2015 Stars & Stripes USA Baseball pays tribute to some of the most talented young prospects in the game --…