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2012 Panini Preferred Details Released

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Panini America has released more information on its first basketball card product of the new season.  It's definitely not your father's basketball card set.  In late February, the company will unveil 2011-12 Preferred Basketball, which will set you back $200 for a four-card pack that will include three autographed cards and one six or eight-piece memorabilia booklet … [Read more...] about 2012 Panini Preferred Details Released

First 2011-12 Basketball Cards Won’t Appear Until Late February

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Panini America, the NBA's official trading card partner, says it will 'overhaul' its roster of basketball card products for the 2011-12  season and indicated the first products of the newly shortened season won't hit store shelves for about two more months. Panini America will tip off the new NBA collecting season with a late-February hobby release of 2012 Preferred … [Read more...] about First 2011-12 Basketball Cards Won’t Appear Until Late February

The $400 Michael Jordan Autograph

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by Juan Martinez I am a two-time member of the “Michael Jordan autograph card owner” club.  It is this mythical club in the minds of basketball card collectors who have busted countless Upper Deck boxes over the years hoping to hold in their hands the signature of the greatest basketball player of all time.  Induction into the club is to be among the greats of the hobby, it … [Read more...] about The $400 Michael Jordan Autograph

Editor’s Blog: Collector Projects Show Creativity in Action

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When it's your birthday, you can ask for baseball cards but unless you can find a fellow collector to buy you something, it might not be a good idea.  You never know what they think you'll like...and often times, you wind up wishing they'd have bought you a sweatshirt instead. If your gift buyer is a guy named Alex Towbin, you're OK. With a friend approaching the … [Read more...] about Editor’s Blog: Collector Projects Show Creativity in Action

Remembering the 1979 NCAA Championship

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ESPN was barely a blip on the sports radar screen. Home computers were still more than a decade away. No blogs. No YouTube. No college hoops on TV every night. Whatever hype surrounded the 1979 NCAA Championship game was largely because the country had read about Magic Johnson and Larry Bird in their daily newspapers or issues of The Sporting News, Sports Illustrated or … [Read more...] about Remembering the 1979 NCAA Championship