搶先看FIRST LOOK: 2012 PANINI PRIME CUTS

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High-end baseball collectors, know this: The 2012 Prime Cuts Baseball product that is slated to arrive in late October should not be confused with the 2011 Prime Cuts Baseball product that released in April. This new installment has been revamped, redesigned and re-engineered.

The result, as the product solicitation sheet boldly proclaims, is a “prospect-free set comprised entirely of Hall of Famers, all-time legends, current MLBPA stars and 2012 autographed MLBPA Rookie Cards (numbered to 99 or less) of on-field rookies like Yoenis Cespedes, Brett Lawrie and Matt Moore.”


2012 Prime Cuts Baseball also will deliver the first autograph and memorabilia cards of the 2012 USA Baseball Collegiate National Team, including scarce Letterman Booklets.

Each two-card pack of 2012 Prime Cuts Baseball (15 packs per case) will include either two autographs or one autograph and one memorabilia card. The set will feature 50 base cards (numbered to 99 and including memorabilia), 50 Century Signatures (with Gold, Silver and Platinum versions), 22 USA Baseball 2012 Collegiate National Team hard-signed jersey cards, 50 Timeline Autographs, 50 Timeline Materials Signatures (featuring Trios and Quads) and 36 Timeline Booklets.

Other highlights include . . .

On-card autographs for Significant Signatures and Notable Nicknames (both numbered to 49 or less) including the likes of Eddie Murray, Tom Seaver, Robin Yount, Ernie Banks, Johnny Bench and more.
Memorabilia-laden cards of Ty Cobb, Lou Gehrig, Jackie Robinson, Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Dizzy Dean, Rogers Hornsby, Bill Dickey, Albert Pujols and Yu Darvish.
A Significant Signatures lineup comprised completely of Hall of Famers, and one future Hall of Famer
(Mariano Rivera) with on-card signatures.
Notable Nicknames mixes Hall of Fame players (Whitey Ford, Mike Schmidt, Lou Brock, Eddie Murray and others) with some of the most popular players of all time, including Josh Hamilton, Paul O’Neill and Larry Walker.
Hats Off Signatures honors 11 Hall of Famers and baseball’s all-time hit king, Pete Rose. Each card carries a swatch of a game-worn cap, an autograph and numbering to 25 or less.
A new spin on the Notable Nickname insert, Notable Nicknames Cuts includes legendary 1/1 signatures from the likes of Johnny Evers, Ted Williams, Satchel Paige, Connie Mack, Frank Baker and Casey Stengel, among plenty of others.
Timeline Booklets honors the biggest years and the biggest careers from the game’s most iconic players by pairing their game-used memorabilia with a cut signature and numbering to 10 or less.


We’ll have much more info in the coming weeks on 2012 Prime Cuts Baseball. But for now, sit back and enjoy this splendid first look:

                    

               

ccb1240a

滿感動的~4份出過現在8月份明年的前期廣告就出來了.
在台灣拆了5盒後已經怕了,還好去日本玩順手拆一盒起死回生.
不然今年這系列真讓人痛哭流涕.
等正式完整內容跟售價再看看.

horses530

這系列是預計10月底要出唷~
號稱沒有新人簽(prospect-free)

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Imagine my surprise on Monday morning when Panini America Product Development Director Ben Ecklar shared with me 35 revealing images from the 2012 Prime Cuts Baseball quality-control process he’d just completed. Somewhere between Black Friday madness and the launches of 2012-13 Totally Certified Basketball and 2012-13 Prizm Basketball,  I had completely lost track of where Prime Cuts was on the production schedule.

And where it was on this particular day was shipping to distributors and dealers in advance of Friday’s release date.  So I grabbed those 35 images from Ecklar’s iPhone and, over the course of the last few days, I’ve managed to add a more to the following QC gallery.

Simply, the 85 images that follow detail autographs and game-worn memorabilia cards from the greatest players in baseball history as well as some small doses of the game’s future. Many of the images you’re about to see — especially some of the jaw-dropping booklets and bat barrel cards — were taken by Ecklar during the pre-packout process for Prime Cuts.

We’ll have much more to share on 2012 Prime Cuts Baseball right here on The Knight’s Lance in the coming days. Until then, though, we encourage you to sit back and enjoy an unadulterated stroll through hardball greatness . . .

abcd995

卡很漂亮
但是不是還是混著新秀簽?

jarvislung

沒有prospect~
給一堆rookie或usa簽
這樣會比較好嗎?

Hidden

我只要這張就好

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With 2012 Prime Cuts arriving Friday from Panini America, we got our first glimpses at the final checklist for the high-end product. Here’s a notebook-style rundown look at some of what it includes, according to information released by the company.

Harper’s here …
The reigning National League Rookie of the Year, Bryce Harper, can be found on his first Panini memorabilia cards in Prime Cuts. He’ll have five Century Gold cards, a 1/1 Century Platinum, 49 Century Silver  and 99 standard jersey cards. … While the product is chock-full of retired and Hall of Fame players, there is a crop of rookie autographs and USA Baseball players in the product. Signed USA Baseball jerseys will be numbered out of 199, while some rookies will be numbered to 199 but most are out of 149. Nearly all other cards in the product are limited to 99 or fewer copies. … AL Rookie of the Year Mike Trout will have approximately 200 memorabilia cards and fewer than 20 autographs in Prime Cuts.

Batty for barrels
There will be 25 1/1 bat barrel cards to be found in the Barrel Up set, a lineup that includes current stars such as Albert Pujols, Alex Rodriguez, Prince Fielder, Miguel Cabrera and Matt Kemp alongside legends such as Stan Musial, Kirby Puckett, Rickey Henderson and Roberto Clemente.



Nicknames of note
The Notable Nickname cards, a highlight in the 2011 release where the player signed a nickname along with an autograph, also return. There are nearly 30 active signers for this one — each card limited to 49 copies — while there also will be 28 cut autograph cards made, nearly all 1/1s. … Among those signing for Panini here were World Series MVP Pablo Sandoval, Bill Madlock, Austin Jackson, Johnny Bench, Josh Hamilton, Larry Walker, Ron Cey, Whitey Ford, Wade Boggs and others. Some players signed two different cards, including Mariano Rivera, Frank Howard, Ron Guidry and Tom Seaver. … Notable cuts will include Casey Stengel, Connie Mack, Cool Papa Bell (the lone non 1/1), Dizzy Dean, Frank “Home Run” Baker, Heinie Manush, Jocko Conlan, Satchel Paige and Ted Williams.

Hats Off
The use of game-used hat swatches returns in this one with nine cards in the skip-numbered Hats Off set and nine Hats off Signatures cards as well. All but two players are Hall of Famers — but Greg Maddux will be and Pete Rose is on the Ineligible List — so it’s a stout lineup that also includes Cal Ripken Jr.,Eddie Murray, Nolan Ryan, Ozzie Smith, Robin Yount, Tony Gwynn and new Hall of Fame inductee Ron Santo, who will be on stickered graphs.

Even more batty …
The Legendary Bats set is relatively deep at 24 cards but only 10 players on those cards can be found with autographed versions. Among them are Frank Thomas, George Brett, Josh Hamilton, Rose, Reggie Jackson , Musialand Gwynn. Another small but potent lineup. … Some of the older names on unsigned cards include Arky Vaughn, Billy Herman, Eddie Collins, Hack Wilson, Jim Bottomley, Jimmie Foxx and Joe Jackson.



Rookie ink
Here are some of the names in the Rookie Signatures lineup … A.J. Pollock, Brad Peacock, Casey Crosby, Dellin Betances, Drew Pomeranz, Drew Smyly, Dan Straily, Derek Norris, Jarrod Parker, Jemile Weeks, Jesus Montero, Martin Perez, Starling Marte, Trevor Bauer, Tyler Moore, Willin Rosario, Will Middlebrooks and Yoenis Cespedes. Some of the more in-demand names actually have more cards available than others (Bauer and Cespedes, for example).

Signature combos & other ink
There are cards that pair players together and it’s a 15-card grouping that’s led off by a combo card of the 2012 Hall of Fame inductees — Barry Larkin and Ron Santo. … Four trio cards will showcase, of course, three sigs while a quads card will feature Nolan Ryan, Robin Yount, Orlando Cepeda and George Brett. (Do you know why those four are together?) … There’s some signing trickle-over from 2012 Panini Cooperstown here as a few contributors to the game are found in the Significant Signatures set. Among then are Hall of Famers Doug Harvey, Pat Gillick and, as reported earlier today, Vin Scully. … That set is deep and nearly every player is in the Hall except for Pete Rose, Mariano Rivera and Fernando Valenzuela.



Cutting class
There’s a deep checklist of about 40 Souvenir Cuts in this one with many of them Hall of Famers or notables rom the past. Among them? Catfish Hunter, Duke Snider, Eddie Mathews, Gary Carter, Harmon Killebrew, Jim Thorpe, Ron Santo, Sparky Anderson, Ted Williams, Walter Johnson, Warren Spahn and Willie Stargell. … There are some of the usual suspects here, too, when it comes to many cut autograph sets found these days – Hall of Famers who signed plenty in the past.  … There are three cuts combos to be found, the sweetest one being a 1/1 Roger Maris-Mickey Mantle card.



Timeline
These cards can be pretty impressive and there are some nice cuts among more standard (though still higher-end) finds in this one.  Want a Ty Cobb game-used pants cut sig booklet card? A Ted Williams cut auto and jersey combo? Or Roger Maris, Satchel Paige, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio or Jackie Robinson? Yep, in there, too, along with a few others in standard-card and booklet form. … There also are prime versions and the cards can be found with the cutout showcasing names or stats. Timeline will be found when ripping — most in low quantities, though — and should showcase top players often.