Panini America’s 2020 National Treasures Football will make its usual fashionably late arrival, more than two months after the end of the NFL season. It's the high-end product that tends to generate the big after market sales for rookie cards both upon release and in the years that follow. With an April 9 release date planned, a hobby box will contain one pack of eight … [Read more...]
2020 Panini Encased Football Preview
The season is over and the draft will be here soon but the 2020 football card products will keep coming through the early part of the spring. 2020 Panini Encased is set to make its return, marking another chapter in the partnership between Beckett Grading and the NFL's trading card partner. 2020 Panini Encased Football Configuration Currently scheduled for a … [Read more...]
2021 Topps Diamond Icons Preview
Back for another year as one of the year's high-end brands, 2021 Topps Icons Baseball is set for release on July 7, with its all-hits format intact. 2021 Topps Diamond Icons Configuration Diamond Icons is for those who are willing to pony up some serious cash, knowing they'll be pulling a bunch of autographs. Nothing's different from last year in terms of … [Read more...]
2021 Bowman Chrome Baseball Will Have 3 Configurations
2021 Bowman Chrome Baseball will offer three distinct options for collectors when it is released in late September. The hobby box and an autograph-only HTA box are back, but this year there is a hobby Lite box that does not promise any hits. The hobby box will contain two mini-boxes, with six packs in each. Every pack will have five cards, including three base and two … [Read more...]
Sports Card Release Calendar: 3/3/21 Through 3/18/21
After a quiet stretch, the supply line of new sports card releases revs up again in the first half of March, with a wide variety of products from every major sport set to arrive. Here's a quick rundown of what to look for: 3/3 2020-21 Donruss Basketball Hobby boxes of Donruss basketball fat packs should contain ten packs including an average of one autograph, one … [Read more...]
2020 Panini Select Football Offers Variety, Plenty Of Parallels
2020 Panini Select football will be among the products that bridges the gap from the end of one NFL season to the beginning of another. The shiny annual release offers one of the year's larger base sets dished out in several different tiers. 2020 Panini Select Football Configuration and Base Set Panini is promising an average of two autographs and a memorabilia card … [Read more...]
2020-21 Upper Deck Series 2 Hockey Preview
Upper Deck has rolled out plans for 2020-21 Series 2 hockey. The second half of the annual flagship product will arrive March 10. Series 1 released n November. 2020-21 Upper Deck Series 2 Configuration Each hobby box of Series 2 will have 24 packs of eight cards. Expect six of the ever popular Young Guns, along with four Canvas, four Portraits Rookies and four … [Read more...]
2020-21 Panini Prizm Basketball Preview
It's become one of the go-to products for basketball card collectors over the last several years. 2020-21 Panini Prizm Basketball marks the ninth season for the shiny silver cards that are among the most graded, traded and chronicled issues of the year. 2020-21 Prizm Basketball Configuration and Base Set Prizm hobby boxes will hold 12 packs of 12 cards. … [Read more...]
Topps Launches Project70 with Betts, Tatis, Ruth
Topps has launched its Project70 series with the first three cards including a baseball icon and two active stars. The initiative is part of Topps' 70th anniversary, but also similar to last year's Project2020 on-demand program. Project70 will utilize 51 different artists and creatives to create the cards. Nineteen of the 20 artists who worked on last year's … [Read more...]
Topps, MLB Network Team Up for On-Demand Set of MLB’s Top 100 Players
Topps is producing an on-demand baseball card set in conjunction with MLB Network’s Top 100 players countdown. Created under the Topps Now brand, the cards are being sold online in packs of ten with all 100 players that are revealed on the network included on the checklist. MLB Network is counting down its top 100 players at a rare of ten per day for ten days, … [Read more...]