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Monthly Archives: January 2011
Anticipation Swells over Panini Plates & Patches
01.18
By Andrew Tolentino | Assistant Editor
Teasing collectors with a recently fast leak of 2010 Plates & Patches Football preview images, Panini America is building anticipation over next week’s launch.
As previously mentioned, the brand new Panini brand will carry a $150-per-pack price tag with high-end bells and whistles galore. Collectors willing to drop the coin can expect four hits in total: one prime-piece memorabilia autographed Rookie Card, two more autographs and either an autograph or a memorabilia card. Surely far from shabby, the other per-pack pulls (two base cards, one parallel and one insert) are designed to compel as well.
Until hobbyists can get their hands on the product, this growing collection of digital eye candy will have to do. Read More
Topps' 60th plan involves engagement ring promotion
01.18
By Chris Olds | Editor
Move over Zales, Topps is taking over.
Topps unveiled on Tuesday its plans to make 10 lucky couples the possible winner of a diamond engagement ring as a tie-in to its 60th anniversary — a diamond anniversary — of making baseball cards.
Couples who produce a 90-second video and post it to the company’s Facebook page will have the chance to be one of the lucky 10 who will compete, on Valentine’s Day no less, for the chance at a ring.
Collecting Vince Carter
01.17
By Susan Lulgjuraj | Contributing Editor
Vince Carter isn’t nearly in the news as much as he used to be. I remember way back in my teens, Carter was coming out of college and he received so much press. He was followed through North Carolina until he was drafted by the Toronto Raptors.
But once Carter got to the NBA, he never got the type of attention some of the other prolific scorers in the league received.
One of Carter’s issues is that he never played for a popular team. He spent six years with Toronto and then went to the New Jersey Nets where he spent another five years. Though a good player, the first 11 years of his career occurred in obscurity.
However, Carter was never quiet in these slow-moving areas of basketball.
On Monday, he became the eighth active player to reach 20,000 points and 37th player to ever do it.
Rajon Rondo steps out of the cardboard shadows
01.15
By Susan Lulgjuraj | Contributing Editor | Commentary
Rajon Rondo isn’t the biggest star on his team.
The Boston Celtics point guard lets the attention fall on those around him while he dishes out the ball to get the rest of his team the numbers that make people look.
Rondo is an assist machine. He averages 13.4 assists a game and had a 23-assist game on Jan. 5, but that wasn’t even his best game this season. He had a 24-assist game on Oct.29 against the New York Knicks.
With all those players around him such as Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Ray Allen and even Shaquille O’Neal, is Rondo overshadowed in the collecting world?
Box Busters: 2011 Element Racing
01.14
Join Beckett Media’s Tim Trout and Andrew Tolentino as they rip into a box of 2011 Element from Press Pass in this latest edition of Box Busters.
What will they find inside? Watch and find out …
First look: 2011 Topps Series 2 Baseball & 60th Anniversary ring
01.14
By Chris Olds | Editor
Topps unveiled the first glimpses at its second series of 2011 baseball cards on Friday, marking the first public unveiling of a 60th Anniversary diamond ring that will only be produced in limited quantities and found via Topps Diamond Dig redemption code cards as part of the company’s anniversary celebration.
However, one lucky reader of Beckett Baseball will have the chance to put one of the rare rings on his or her finger, too, via a contest in the pages of our magazine coming later this spring.
While the new series will supplement Series 1, which arrives in roughly a month, new for Series 2 will be Diamond Anniversary parallels, a Before There Was Topps insert card set, a Diamond Stars insert set, Hall of Fame buybacks, Topps 60 dual Relics and a new batch of Topps Attax cards.
The Diamond dig cards will be found one in every six packs and can unlock the diamond ring, a vintage pack of cards, a card with an actual diamond embedded into the cardboard or one of a few other options. Codes found on the cards will be entered at www.diamondtopps.com where fans can also collect virtual rings and other anniversary-themed cards.
Each 36-pack hobby box will include one autograph or Relic, while every 10-pack HTA Jumbo box will pack an autograph and two Relics inside when it arrives on June 6.
More to come. See images after the jump.
First Look: 2010-11 Contenders Hockey
01.14
By Andrew Tolentino | Assistant Editor
Earlier this morning, Panini America revealed an early glance at 2010-11 Contenders Hockey. Shooting to score with avid hockey hobbyists, Panini’s late-March release should hit with recognizable characteristics from unique Playoff origins.
“[Contenders is] an instantly identifiable brand — nothing else looks quite like it — and I think that will make it compelling to hockey collectors who are looking for something unique to pursue, said Panini America’s Hockey Brand Manager, Al Muir. “Add that to the brand’s legacy of value thanks to the Rookie Tickets subset and it was the most obvious choice from Panini’s stable of brands to make the transition to hockey.”
With a bevy of hot players lending signatures and sweater swatches to the product, 2010-11 Contenders Hockey is set to deliver the best of its brand roots. Contenders delivers four autographs per box, including an average of three hard-signed Rookie Ticket autographs, which are favored staples in the line. The spring set also offers nine-per-box inserts like Leather Larceny, Against the Glass, Lottery Winners and more listed below in greater detail. Read More
If you could have one Blake Griffin rookie card, which would you pick?
01.13
By Susan Lulgjuraj | Contributing Editor
You can’t turn on ESPN without seeing highlights of Blake Griffin’s dunks. The Los Angeles Clippers big man is giving people a reason to finally watch the Clippers.
He puts down dunks with such ferocity that it looks as though opponents just step out of the way.
Seriously, who wants to stand in the way of an upcoming freight train?
Dunks aren’t the only thing he has going for him, which is why this rookie’s cards are blowing up and they didn’t come cheaply to start.
But if you could have one Griffin Rookie Card in your collection, which card would it be?
Collector Goes Green with National Treasures 'Noise Toy'
01.13
By Andrew Tolentino | Assistant Editor
Some might say that the trading card industry is notoriously not “green.” However, as featured on Panini America’s blog, Delaware collector Amarin Cogburn has proven otherwise.
Scouring the internet and seeking expertise from an engineering-minded friend, Cogburn managed to repurpose a 2007 National Treasures Football box as “noise toy.” Specifically, Cogburn created a functioning amplifier with the collectible wooden box, a soldering iron and a few spare parts along the way.
Originally intended as a tinker-based offering for a white elephant gift exchange, the recycled high-end hobby container was a success. “The amp was a hit among my friends and I ended up building two more in the following month,” Cogburn said on The Knight’s Lance.
Ideally, this type of DIY spirit can permeate throughout the hobby, leading to more recycled collecting ingenuity. Considering the winter weather, who is willing to make the first foil-wrapper overcoat? Read More
Players Get Creative on Topps Five Star Sketch Cards
01.13
By Andrew Tolentino | Assistant Editor
Topps announced today that collectors will be able to see the creative sides of pro football players in the upcoming Five Star product.
Lending their artistic talent (sometimes better referred to as “effort”) on player sketch cards, athletes like Tony Romo (whose effort is pictured above), LaDainian Tomlinson and Tim Tebow add a unique allure to the high-end line. Hand drawn by NFL standouts, each one of one illustration is signed on the back by the respective footbartist.
This makes for an interesting means of getting more than just autographs from Romo, Tomlinson, Tebow, Reggie Wayne, Vincent Jackson, Maurice Jones-Drew, Roddy White, Matthew Stafford, C.J. Spiller, Matt Ryan, Mike Williams, Aaron Hernandez and more.
Set to release in late February, Topps Five Star Football is loaded with high-end hits, some of which might even end up at The Met.