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With one masterful debut release last season, the revered Immaculate brand made a dashing impression on baseball collectors across the country by delivering some of the biggest, sickest, nastiest and most coveted jumbo prime memorabilia cards of 2014 or any other season. Those spectacular specimens (featuring massive pieces of cleats, fielding gloves, batting gloves, jerseys and more) immediately raised expectations for any Immaculate Baseball release to follow.
Well, the highly anticipated encore — 2015 Immaculate Baseball — is about to follow. And it is a blockbuster. Over the last several days, Panini America Baseball Brand Managers Wes Elliott and Micah Layton have been hard at work Quality Controlling and packing out the product over at the company production facility across town. Luckily for all of us, Elliott has been pulling double duty by snapping as many drool-worthy pics as possible with his trusty smartphone.
In the explosive gallery that follows, we bring you the first of many sneak peeks at the clearly immaculate 2015 Immaculate Baseball, with a stern focus on the product’s jumbo prime memorabilia inclusions featuring the likes of Ichiro, Kris Bryant, Barry Bonds, Paul Molitor, Mike Trout, Jose Abreu, the late Tony Gwynn and more. The product begins shipping today and will go live in hobby shops across North America next Friday.
We’ll have plenty more to preview in the coming days right here on The Knight’s Lance. But until then, feast your eyes on these . . .
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