Well, that didn’t take long. The 1/1 NFL Shield Mac Jones autographed rookie card from 2021 Flawless Football was pulled Tuesday by MojoBreak.
Just pulled!!!!!! @PaniniAmerica #whodoyoucollect #patriots @MacJones_10 pic.twitter.com/qR5rWH2qZ4
— Mojobreak (@mojobreak_com) June 15, 2022
According to figures filed with the US Labor Department, Topps paid the MLB Players Association $28.6 million in licensing fees in fiscal 2021. Panini paid the MLBPA $6.6 million.
Panini paid over $27 million to the NFLPA for the players’ portion of its football card license.
That doesn’t include the amounts paid to the leagues for licensing.
The San Diego Padres TV broadcast crew recently had some fun with baseball cards. Three years after breaking open a pack of 1989 Topps and sampling the gum on air, analyst Mark Grant was againi forced by partner Don Orsillo to chew up a slab of 1989 Bowman:
HE ATE THE GUM… AGAIN😂@Mudcat55 | @DonOrsillo pic.twitter.com/uGRppYFr1q
— Bally Sports San Diego (@BallySportsSD) June 12, 2022
Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow stopped and signed a couple of cards for a local boy named Teddy and his sister Millie after one of the team’s recent OTAs.
The video wound up on a Cincinnati TV station. Now, they say young Teddy was so appreciative he wants to give Burrow one of his cards.
Rob Fitts, an expert on Japanese baseball and an avid collector of that country’s baseball cards will be giving a talk on the latter subject at the Baseball Hall of Fame later this month.
He’ll discuss that element of the hobby and his book, An Illustrated Intro to Japanese Baseball Cards at 1 PM on Wednesday, June 29.
The book discusses the history of cards, from their beginnings in the late 19th century to the present day. Fittshas written previous books such as “Banzai Babe Ruth” and “Mashi: The Unfulfilled Baseball Dreams of Masanori Murakami, The First Japanese Major Leaguer”.
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After the pandemic forced the cancellation of its 2020 and 2021 events, MeiGray’s annual Game-Worn Expo is back this summer.
The 17th edition of the gathering of collectors who fancy game-worn items is set for Saturday, July 16 at Raritan Valley Community College in North Branch, NJ.
There will be a hobby roundtable, a collectors show with dealers offering memorabilia for sale and special exhibits focused on hockey jerseys.
The cost is $40.
Full details on the day-long event are available here.
