In The Game Heroes & Prospects Series 2

After a somber week away I am happy to return home, it now gives us a chance to begin the healing. A weeks-worth of work has greeted me along with a daunting list of web work that needs to be addressed but I decided that after spending the last 5 hours working on designs and my portfolio update I needed to sit back and recharge a little and jump back in to the sports world, which has gone crazy with the return of the NFL, rumors on NBA players jumping ship and the second half of the baseball season starting off with some huge trades (and my Mariners ending their losing skid).

 To coincide with the National’s opening day In The Game is releasing 2011 Heroes & Prospects Baseball Series 2 tomorrow, a couple of weeks ago I did a write up about the product, but to usher in the release they posted up some final preview shots of the  “HUGE” hits. Topps, Panini and Upper Deck take note, this is how you do a patch (the card design is a different story but the patches are definitely sweet).

Hank Aaron

George Brett

Edgar Martinez

Ozzie Smith

Nolan Ryan

Fernando Valenzuela

I do not expect to be buying any packs but I would love to get my hands on the Edgar Martinez patch, I see that and I can just hear "Edggggggaaaaaaaaarrrrrr!" calling out from the upper deck.

Preview: In The Game Series 2

In The Game is getting ready to release the second round of their baseball release, 2011 Heroes & Prospects Baseball, next month and they have started to release some information of what we can expect. There will be 5 cards per pack/box with each card being a hit and I would figure similar pricing ($75/pack). I have only seen a couple of images from Series 2 and besides a couple new 1/1 inserts it is built upon Series 1.

 While I am still not a fan of the product what I do like is that In The Game realized some more attention needed to be paid to the “Heroes” part of the set and they added some interesting new 1/1 insert sets.

New this series is:

Heroes Hard Cuts, cut signatures of baseball legends

On The Barrelhead, a portion of the barrelhead from a legends game-used bat

 First Pitch, presidential autographs. Now I have only seen Obama’s autograph so I do not know if previous, still-living, presidents will also be included.