Collectors, get ready. Tomorrow, hobby shops and group break sites across North America will be abuzz with virtually unparalleled bustle as Panini America releases four new products: 2017 Certified Cuts Football, 2016-17 Immaculate Basketball, 2017 Absolute NASCAR Racing and 2017 Contenders Draft Picks Baseball. We’ve spent the better part of the last week attempting to properly prepare you for one of the most dynamic release days of the year.
With all four Quality Control Gallery preview posts behind us, we started moving things into the Teaser Gallery phase yesterday by taking you pack by pack through early boxes of Certified Cuts Football and Immaculate Basketball. Now, we move our focus to 2017 Contenders Draft Picks Baseball.
Boasting a new packaging configuration (18 cards per pack, six packs per box, 12 boxes per case), 2017 Contenders Draft Picks Baseball will deliver one autograph per pack (six per box), with at least two of those autographs being hard-signed draft picks autographs. All on-card autographs will feature photo variations as well as Cracked Ice (numbered to 23), Playoff Ticket (numbered to 15), Championship Ticket (1/1) and Printing Plate (1/1) parallels.