High-end baseball and basketball join new NFL and NHL products as the trading card manufacturers try to keep everyone happy with their latest releases. Courtesy of The Break Exchange, here's a roundup of six fresh releases scheduled to hit the market in the second half of May. 2018-19 Panini Spectra Basketball (5/17) If you think this is a rerun, you're right (sort … [Read more...]
Donruss Football Tops List of Top Selling Boxes at SportsMemorabilia.com
Panini's flagship football product is outselling the other top four selling boxes combined on the website of one of the sports collecting hobby's online retail giants. SportsMemorabilia.com says 2018 Donruss football remains the top selling trading card product in March, nearly two months after the end of the NFL season and seven months after it was … [Read more...]
2018 Panini Contenders SP SSP Population Revealed
We now have some numbers to go by when totaling up the number of key rookie autograph cards in one of the year’s most popular annual football products. Panini America has released the list of short printed and super short printed cards in its 2018 Contenders Rookie Tickets and Rookie Ticket variations. The list is below. An SP indicated cards that had a print run of … [Read more...]
2018 Panini Limited Football Preview
The lull between the conference championship games and the Super Bowl is probably a pretty good time to offer some sort of football fix and that’s what’s happening with the return of 2018 Panini Limited football. Limited is a mid-range product that offers a healthy dose of parallel cards along with a mix of autographs and memorabilia cards. 2018 Panini Limited … [Read more...]
2018 Panini Honors Football to Include Updates, Throwbacks, Buybacks
It’s part throwback, part update. 2018 Panini Honors football will have quite a mix of content when it arrives in the spring as one of the last products associated with the current season. Honors will include everything from updated and autographed cards from previous 2018 Panini football releases to signed cards from past designs to buyback cards. Each box will … [Read more...]
2018 Panini Flawless NFL Preview
Long after the Super Bowl, the final NFL trading card product of the 2018 season will hit the market--once again inside a metal briefcase that's become its calling card. The NFL edition of 2018 Panini Flawless football will pack ten cards--all hits--with a few new concepts making their debut. One of the more anticipated products of the year thanks to … [Read more...]
2018 Panini National Treasures Football Preview
The NFL season will be several weeks past when it gets here but 2018 National Treasures football hopes to bridge the gap between the Super Bowl and the draft when it makes its annual visit. The high-end release is designed for those who love the thick card stock, on-card autographs and big patches. Panini has released details for the product, which is set to … [Read more...]
Panini Contenders Football SP Production Runs 2015-2018
Collectors who own certain unnumbered Panini Contenders football autographed cards from the last few seasons but want to know just exactly how many were issued will soon know the answer. The company has acknowledged which cards may be short prints or super short prints following each release of the product, but this is the first time actual numbers have been … [Read more...]
2018 Contenders Optic Football Preview
Not to be confused with its long-running Contenders line, Panini will bring back a higher end version of the popular product early next year with 2018 Contenders Optic Football. It's the second year they've produced a chrome-style version with their exclusive NFL license. This season's product will be a one pack per box product with each pack carrying six cards. … [Read more...]
2018 Panini Encased Football Preview
The football season will be over, but the football cards will keep coming after Super Bowl 53. Back for a third straight year, 2018 Panini Encased football will arrive March 8, promising “increased veteran and retired content, including rare inscriptions from NFL legends.” 2018 Panini Encased Football Basics Each one pack box of Encased will have five cards, … [Read more...]