Topps' 60-year run of producing football cards is indeed coming to an end. Panini America and the NFL announced a "long term" exclusive partnership Thursday, with the deal starting next spring. Panini will be the only company making physical cards and sticker products starting early next spring. Topps, which has produced pro football trading cards since 1956, will retain its … [Read more...] about NFL, Panini Make Exclusive Football Card Deal Official
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Panini Goes Old School With Complete Basketball
Collectors who remember the days when packs could be purchased with spare change may like this. Panini has announced details about its 2015-16 Complete Basketball cards, which is being released in December, just a few weeks into the new NBA season and a couple of months after another lower cost product, Hoops, hits store shelves. Complete will contain a 330-card base … [Read more...] about Panini Goes Old School With Complete Basketball
What’s Hot: Bowman MLB Throwing High Heat
If you read the title of today’s (semi) weekly effort, you probably would think I was going to give another rah-rah job for the newest Bowman MLB release. While you would be partially right, we are going through 2015 Bowman regular and jumbo boxes and cases of MLB like crazy; 2015 is quickly turning into the season of the prospect card. In most years, baseball sales are … [Read more...] about What’s Hot: Bowman MLB Throwing High Heat
Panini Promising 2 Autographs in 2015 Cooperstown Product
Panini America will release a fourth trading card set as part of its license with the Baseball Hall of Fame. The company announced the planned release of 2015 Cooperstown Baseball on Wednesday, promising two autographed cards per box. Panini also says it will have Babe Ruth inside a Cooperstown product for the first time with base cards, parallels, inserts and cut autograph … [Read more...] about Panini Promising 2 Autographs in 2015 Cooperstown Product
Panini Signs Deal with Mariota
Panini America has signed former Oregon Ducks quarterback and 2014 Heisman Trophy winner Marcus Mariota to a trading card and autograph agreement for the 2015 season. As part of the agreement, Mariota will appear on Panini trading card packaging. The agreement also means Mariota will get plenty of attention in Panini’s first college-licensed products, due out next month and … [Read more...] about Panini Signs Deal with Mariota
Topps, Panini Reveal Product Additions, Adjustments
Trading card manufacturers with major licenses had a chance to address sports card shop owners and distributors at the Industry Summit in Las Vegas on Tuesday, providing slide presentations on future plans and some explanations for what’s happened over the past 12 months. Upper Deck revealed it had agreed to a contract extension with Michael Jordan while MLB’s exclusive … [Read more...] about Topps, Panini Reveal Product Additions, Adjustments
Basketball Card Market Offers Cheap Autographs of Stars, Legends
You can spend thousands on one rare card but part of the fun of being a collector is to spot bargains and build a nice variety of items without spending a fortune. From brand new Hoops to all the way back to 1996-97 Skybox Autographics, collectors can acquire some very nice, very cheap autographed basketball cards, some costing only a few bucks. It’s the one benefit of a … [Read more...] about Basketball Card Market Offers Cheap Autographs of Stars, Legends
Ohio 3rd Grader at Super Bowl Via Panini Contest
The only thing 9-year-old third-grader Dylan Cooperider really expected from opening packs of football cards throughout the 2014 season was the fun of chasing his favorite Cleveland Browns players. A dream trip to Super Bowl XLIX as the grand prize winner in Panini America's Super Bowl Kid Reporter contest remained a distant fantasy – no matter how many times he entered codes … [Read more...] about Ohio 3rd Grader at Super Bowl Via Panini Contest
Editor’s Blog: Card Show, Autographs at NHL Fan Fair; 2015 Topps Checklist
Looking for something to do while the NFL take a weekend off? A sports card and memorabilia show is again part of the 2015 NHL All-Star Game festivities, held this year in Columbus, OH. It’s part of the 2015 Fan Fair, which runs three days and will occupy more than 200,000 square feet of the Greater Columbus Convention Center Friday, Jan. 23 through Sunday, Jan. 25. Tickets … [Read more...] about Editor’s Blog: Card Show, Autographs at NHL Fan Fair; 2015 Topps Checklist
What’s Hot in the Shop: It’s Beginning To Look At Lot Like Black Friday
As a sports card store owner for close to 22 years, I have had the pleasure of seeing some great promotions come and go. The Upper Deck Hobby 2000 kits stand out as one that had some great legs and even resulted in Cam Neely being brought in to my store for a signing. A few years back, the MLBPA sent out some jerseys and other prizes that helped move a bunch of cases worth of … [Read more...] about What’s Hot in the Shop: It’s Beginning To Look At Lot Like Black Friday