Panini America Releases SP Information for 2016 Prestige Football Draft Day Signatures
In the few weeks since Panini America released its popular 2016 Prestige Football, collectors have spent much of their quality time with the product tracking down the product's 10 short-printed Rookie Cards and speculating about the quantities of the ink-color variations in the hard-signed Draft Day Signatures insert. Today, that speculation ends. After the jump, we reveal the specific quantities for…
Panini America Offers Detailed Information on 2016 Classics Football SPs, Variations
Panini America's Classics Football franchise enjoyed a heroic return to the hobby last week with a blast-from-the-past 2016 edition steeped in old-school nuance and just a little bit of mystery. We gave you preliminary information on the product's various parallels and SPs just prior to the product releasing. In the eight days since, many collectors have wondered -- both aloud…
Gallery: Panini America Unravels Mystery of 2016 Classics Football SPs and Variations
Panini America's bold reimagining of the venerable Classics Football franchise officially releases in hobby shops across North America one week from today. But many collectors will get an early look at the product later this week during the 2016 NFLPA Rookie Premiere Presented By Panini America. To be sure, 2016 Classics Football is a bona fide blast from the past…
Rare Collegiate Variations Add Tough Chase to 2015 Gridiron Kings Football Base Set
As you've no doubt seen by now, tomorrow's release of Panini America's 2015 Gridiron Kings Football has plenty to offer fans and collectors who've been without the product for more than 10 years. Most of the brand staples that collectors coveted before and have come to expect -- such as colorful cards that look more like works of art, Framed…
Base Variations Continue Fanning Flames of 2014-15 Gold Standard Basketball
One of the most interesting — but perhaps less-heralded — aspects of Panini America’s Gold Standard Basketball brand during its first four years in existence has been the inclusion of veteran base-set variations that have created feeding frenzies for the rarest versions among impacted player collectors. The phenomenon began with that inaugural 2010-11 Gold Standard Basketball release and featured Pete Maravich,…
A Visual Guide to 2014 Contenders Football Rookie Ticket Variations (Gallery)
For most diehard football collectors, tomorrow's highly anticipated hobby release of 2014 Contenders Football simply can't get here fast enough. Contenders release day is a hobby holiday of sorts every year, not just because it marks the arrival of one of the category's all-time favorite products -- but also because of the excitement that begins to build immediately surrounding the…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Breaks Open Two Boxes of 2014 Contenders Football
We're almost two weeks removed from Santa Claus coming to town and yet, for many collectors, Football Card Christmas arrives tomorrow with the release of Panini America's 2014 Contenders Football in hobby shops across North America. The landmark release -- bolstered by its landmark Rookie Ticket Autographs -- returns as football's home of the autographed Rookie Card for the 17th consecutive…
Panini America Sheds Light on Rookie Card Variations in 2014 Rookies & Stars Football
High-volume breakers of 2014 Rookies & Stars Football have no doubt already discovered them in the two weeks since the product went live. Casual collectors, however, may have flipped right past them without even noticing. Indeed, there are short-print photo variations for 25 top rookies in 2014 Rookies & Stars Football that fall roughly three per hobby box on average.…
Panini America Releases Variation, SP Lists for the New 2013-14 Contenders Hockey
Judging by the Panini America Twitter feed and general email inbox, inquiring, hockey-collecting minds want to know: What short prints and variations exist within the vast array of autographs available in the new 2013-14 Contenders Hockey release. Well, stick around for a minute; we're about to let you know. Panini America Hockey Brand Manager Chris Barr turned the official lists…
Short Story: Panini America Begins Leaking 2013 Contenders Football SP Quantities
It's a phenomenon that takes place every year at about this time. Almost immediately following the release of a new year of Contenders Football, the annual frenzy commences as collectors across North America begin scrambling and scouring to determine the relative scarcity of the set’s ample selection of Rookie Ticket SPs and variations. It’s a mesmerizing chain of events to be sure, and…