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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Panini Teases 2010-11 Dominion Hockey
04.20
By Andrew Tolentino | Hockey Editor
With the Stanley Cup playoffs underway, hockey fans are undoubtedly gripping armchairs and multitasking with their eyes glued to television sets (do they still call them sets?) at home, in sports bars and wherever the icy action is being aired.
Still in its debut season with NHL products, Panini America continues to make its presence known to hockey hobbyists. While the default home team — the Dallas Stars — for the north Texas-based card company is no longer in the running, Panini America is rooting for the release of its late-summer set.
The four-card gallery (after the jump) is but a mere glimpse at 2010-11 Dominion. Surely, this brand has a few more bells and whistles to brandish before its late-July release — but an early look should establish the high-end appeal here. Read More
Box Busters: 2010-11 Classics basketball cards
04.18
Join Beckett Basketball’s Rob Springs and Chris Olds as they rip into a pair of 2010-11 Classics basketball boxes from Panini America in this latest edition of Box Busters.
What will they find inside? Watch to find out …
Box Busters: 2010-11 Upper Deck UNC Basketball
04.18
Join Beckett Basketball’s Chris Olds and Rob Springs as they rip into a box of 2010-11 Upper Deck University of North Carolina basketball cards in this latest edition of Box Busters.
What will they find inside? Watch and find out …
Panini previews 2011 Prestige with retrospective Rookie Review set
04.18
By Andrew Tolentino | Football Editor
Panini America recently revealed a comprehensive look at the Back-to-the-Future-esque Rookie Review insert set in 2011 Prestige Football.
While these 40 inserts aren’t actually Rookie Cards, they offer a retrospective glance at the top newcomers from 2010. Last year’s poster boys — a la Sam Bradford and Tim Tebow — appear as expected, but the roster has been expanded to include the likes of not-so-obvious standouts — Chris Ivory, anyone? — from last season.
Visual samples of the mid-May release are up for review after the jump.
Box Busters: 2010-11 Between The Pipes Hockey
04.18
Join Beckett Hockey’s Andrew Tolentino and Tim Trout as they rip into a box of 2010-11 Between The Pipes hockey cards From In The Game in this latest edition of Box Busters.
What will they find inside? Watch and find out …
Box Busters preview gallery: 2010-11 Classics basketball
04.18
By Chris Olds | Basketball Editor
While the Box Busters video for 2010-11 Classics is in the microwave, we figured what better time than now to show off a few cards from just one of our boxes.
The product is jam-packed full of colorful designs — something pretty different from past editions of the brand — with two autographs and two memorabilia cards in each and every 18-pack hobby box.
We saved the best for the video, but here’s a look at some of what was found inside Panini America’s latest basketball product.
Hobby shop thoughts: on-camera video card opinions
04.18
By Andrew Tolentino | Football Editor
Last week, we took a quick trip over to Nick’s Sports Cards — the closest hobby shop in our neck of the woods — to get a few lunch-hour reactions to Upper Deck’s EVOLUTION.
With the video card in my hand and the video camera in Olds’, we set out to capture as many opinions as we could get during an admittedly low-traffic time. While we weren’t able to put the industry innovation in hundreds of hands that day, we definitely managed to spark some real interest and honest discussion about the latest hobby brainchild.
Watch in 720p for better resolution.
Card Gallery: 2011 Topps Tribute baseball cards
04.18
By Chris Olds | Baseball Editor
Our Box Busters video fried and went to video purgatory — it happens … but we’ll re-film another soon — but we didn’t want to wait to show off some of what was inside one box of 2011 Topps Tribute.
A definite highlight was the Lou Gehrig card seen above, but you can see more … after the jump.
Collector Break: 2011 Topps Tribute baseball
04.18
We stopped by Nick’s Sports Cards in Dallas late last week and saw one collector, who didn’t want to be shown on camera, ripping into some boxes. He did let us record this box of 2011 Topps Tribute, though.
What will he find inside? Watch to find out …
Weekly Highlights (April 11 – April 15)
04.15
Card galleries
- 2011 Upper Deck Football
- 2011 Topps Finest Football
- 2010-11 Pinnacle Hockey
- 2010-11 Between the Pipes
Winning arrivals
- Leaf adds Charlie Sheen to upcoming non-sports set
- Sheen’s winning streak means more memorabilia
- Bryce Harper’s first MILB card to appear in 2011 Topps Pro Debut
The video card conversation
- Panini returns fire in war of words over video cards
- Reader Poll: Collectors respond to a six-question video card survey
- EVOLUTION arrives in a box of 2011 Upper Deck Football (Video)
Box Busters
- 2011 Upper Deck Football (plus a look at EVOLUTION)
First pricing
Seasonally relevant card of the week
Auction Action