Offering four autographs per box, 2022 Wild Card Auto Mania Pro-Look's retail edition includes one magnetic case auto numbered to 10 or less and three snap case sealed autographs, of all of the young rookies and prospects in the football landscape. Hot rookies Brock Purdy and Kenny Pickett join rookie to be CJ Stroud on the cover of the box. The three autographs … [Read more...] about Brief Box Break: 2022 Wild Card Auto Mania Pro-Look Football Retail
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Brief Box Break: 2022 Bowman Inception Baseball Hobby
Although we only got a few boxes of the brand new 2022 Bowman Inception Baseball, after a slow start and realizing they barely sell for cost online after paying fees and shipping, we decided to crack one in store.Bowman was known as The Home of the Rookie Card, which then turned into The Home of the 1st Card. Now, Bowman has a new Inauguration gold stamp of approval on their … [Read more...] about Brief Box Break: 2022 Bowman Inception Baseball Hobby
Shop Talk: New Arrivals; Lost and Found; Vintage Time Capsule Walk-In
Tony Reid chronicles the happenings inside Sports Zone, the Central Pennsylvania store where he works. —– It was a sports card heavy week at the shop, which as you know by now, is my favorite kind of week. We got a ton of restocks, new releases, and all kinds of cards to fill our shelves. We recently did box breaks on 2022 Bowman Inception Baseball (gorgeous product), 2022 … [Read more...] about Shop Talk: New Arrivals; Lost and Found; Vintage Time Capsule Walk-In
Brief Box Break: 2022 Topps Chrome Allen & Ginter Hobby
We decided to crack a box of the brand new 2022 Topps Chrome Allen & Ginter product. Nearly every collector loves the Topps chromium technology and Allen & Ginter has a huge following. Just as with the traditional line of Ginter, Chrome also has the pop culture, oddball and off the wall cards mixed in with past and present baseball players.Although there are no … [Read more...] about Brief Box Break: 2022 Topps Chrome Allen & Ginter Hobby
Brief Box Break: 2022 Zenith Football
I felt like I took a time machine back to the mid-90s when the new Zenith Football cards arrived in the shop.The Zenith name goes way back but Panini is using it now and apparently there's enough to go around as the shop was able to acquire several cases, something that's rarely possible these days.Each box consists of one shiny, silver, six-card pack that promises two … [Read more...] about Brief Box Break: 2022 Zenith Football
Brief Box Break: 2021-22 Mosaic Basketball Hobby
The 2023 NBA All-Star Game may be on the horizon but 2021-22 branded products are STILL coming out. Mosaic Basketball Hobby boxes bounced into the store last week and we grabbed one off the shelf to rip open.Always a hot ticket landing somewhere in the same space as Prizm, Select and Optic, Mosaic definitely has some big fans out there in the collecting community.Hobby … [Read more...] about Brief Box Break: 2021-22 Mosaic Basketball Hobby
Brief Box Break: 2022 Wild Card Auto Mania
The first thing that hits you when you pick up a box of Wild Card's new Auto Mania football card product is the big number at the bottom of the box. "Eight Autos Per Box." No matter if it's a league or college licensed product or not, that's a pretty good selling point. Wild Card says it produced only 400 cases (4,800 boxes) and each box is numbered. The autographs in … [Read more...] about Brief Box Break: 2022 Wild Card Auto Mania
Brief Box Break: 2022 Pro Set Draft Football Blaster
It's a blaster box that's really a set. 2022 Leaf Pro Set Football Draft arrived at the shop Friday afternoon. With a relatively slow moment in store, coupled with the urge to rip new, cheap product, I had to dig into this one. I didn't realize until I had the box in my hand and was reading the description that the configuration of this blaster is a 10-card base set and two … [Read more...] about Brief Box Break: 2022 Pro Set Draft Football Blaster
Brief Box Break: 2022 Finest Baseball Hobby
Spring training will be here in a couple of weeks (yes, really!) but 2022 branded baseball products are still trickling out including the recently released 2022 Topps Finest Baseball. Finest continues to be one of the more respected and well-known mid-level brands and among the more popular releases in the shop each year.As with seemingly more and more Topps products now, … [Read more...] about Brief Box Break: 2022 Finest Baseball Hobby
Brief Box Break: 2022 Illusions Football Hobby
We managed to secure a few cases of the brand new 2020 Illusions Football hobby and decided to see for ourselves what this year's product offered. Right off the bat, many folks in our neck of the woods are happy with the graphics and box art as it features Pittsburgh Steelers rookie quarterback Kenny Pickett and recently retired signal caller Ben Roethlisberger. This … [Read more...] about Brief Box Break: 2022 Illusions Football Hobby