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Daily brief on cards and kits.
Edition 64 Friday, September 18, 2026
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Seaver King's power year reaches 15 Triple-A homers

Seaver King's power year reaches 15 Triple-A homers
Seaver King points to the sky after hitting a home run earlier this seasonImage: pickinsplinters

Washington's No. 4 prospect went back-to-back in Rochester on Tuesday night, which puts his 2024 Bowman Draft autographs on the list, on a day when Topps Museum Collection got an October 7 date and Ohtani's Gold Logoman jersey opened for bids.

King went back-to-back with Cortland Lawson in the fifth inning of Rochester's 12-4 win over Buffalo on September 16, and the photo caption on the game story puts it at his 15th home run at the Triple-A level this season. MLB Pipeline has him as Washington's No. 4 prospect, and as of August he was on pace to roughly triple the six home runs he hit in 2025. The cards a collector will go looking for are his 2024 Bowman Draft issues: base BD-62, the Chrome parallel BDC-62, and the autographs, Chrome Prospect Autographs CPA-SK, Class of 2024 C24-SK, Draft Prospect Portrait DPPA-SK, plus a Prospect Dual Autograph shared with Elijah Green.

The game report The 2024 Bowman Draft checklist
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Source: Pickin' Splinters · Published September 16, 2026

Drop Radar

Release date of October 7 and a $409.99 sellout price reported by Cardlines on September 17, sourced to the product's own Topps.com pre-order page.

Cardlines dates 2026 Topps Museum Collection Baseball to October 7, after a $409.99 pre-order sellout

Topps put the product up for pre-order on Topps.com on September 8 at 2pm ET and it sold out quickly at $409.99 a box. Cardlines now has the release scheduled for October 7, subject to change, which resolves the TBA we have been carrying on the calendar. A hobby box is one pack of eight cards with a guaranteed autograph and a guaranteed autographed relic, and the 100-card base set includes rookies JJ Wetherholt, Nolan McLean, Munetaka Murakami, and Kevin McGonigle.

The Cardlines release guide
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Source: Cardlines · Published September 17, 2026
Dated September 30 with box pricing by Checklist Insider, and separately listed as forthcoming on Panini America's Coming Soon page.

Checklist Insider dates Panini's first Obsidian K League set to September 30

Obsidian goes to South Korea for the first time. Checklist Insider has 2026 Panini Obsidian K League Soccer on sale September 30, with hobby boxes listed from $59.99 to $68.95: one pack of eight cards carrying one autograph, one relic, two base parallels, and two inserts. Panini America's own Coming Soon page lists the product among its upcoming releases without a date, which confirms it as a real forthcoming set rather than a listing error.

The checklist page
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Source: Checklist Insider
Release date of October 28 from Checklist Insider; no official box price stated, only secondary-market eBay listings.

Checklist Insider dates 2026 Panini Crown Royale NWSL Soccer to October 28

Crown Royale reaches the National Women's Soccer League for the first time on October 28. Each hobby box is a single eight-card pack averaging one autograph, two relics, two base parallels, and one insert. There is no official box price yet: the only figures on the page are secondary-market eBay listings running from $65 to roughly $300, so read those as what sellers are asking, not as what the box will cost.

The checklist page
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Source: Checklist Insider

Under the Radar

44 upvotes and 9 comments on r/basketballcards on September 18; the print-run correction comes from a commenter cross-checking TCDB listings against observed sales in the thread.

r/basketballcards corrects a Master P autograph's print run to 116 on-card copies

A collector posted a newly bought on-card Master P autograph, picked up for under $100 including shipping and tax, and put the total population at 111. A commenter went and checked it: cross-referencing TCDB listings against observed sales, the count across every parallel (Base /75, Bronze /25, Gold /10, Emerald /5, Platinum 1/1) is 116 copies, all using the same Raptors photo, issued right before Panini lost its NBA license. The same commenter flagged roughly 150 more that could exist if the unredeemed 2024-25 Immaculate Heralded Signatures redemptions are ever filled, so the number is a floor rather than a ceiling.

The thread
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Source: r/basketballcards · Published September 18, 2026
Season-by-season design account from Footy Headlines, published August 12; no pricing or availability stated.

Footy Headlines traces Napoli's EA7 kits from a cluttered 2021-22 debut to the 2026-27 set

Footy Headlines goes back through five seasons of Napoli's EA7 shirts and is blunt about the start: the 2021-22 debut looked rushed and unsophisticated, with a red Lete sponsor box dominating the front. What turned it around was a simplified, color-matched MSC logo and bespoke tailoring, jacquard fabrics, retro-inspired collars, and refined trim. The 2026-27 lineup runs to a home shirt with a 100th-anniversary crest, a pinstriped away, and a 1980s-inspired third with inverted logo placement, alongside the 2026-27 pre-match shirt we covered on September 1, and the club now puts out three main shirts plus one special edition instead of the longer release lists of earlier years. No prices or availability in the piece.

The Footy Headlines history
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Source: Footy Headlines · Published August 12, 2026

Live Heat

From the Feed

Posted September 17 by @CataPaul2 on X.

Cata Paul ranks the NFL's 20 largest stadiums, MetLife on top at 82,500

🇺🇸 🏟️ Top 20 largest NFL stadiums 🏈 1. 🗽 MetLife Stadium – 82,500 · New York Giants; New York Jets 2. 🧀 Lambeau Field – 81,041 · Green Bay Packers 3. ⭐ AT&T Stadium – 80,000 · Dallas Cowboys 4. 🐴 Empower Field at Mile High – 76,125 · Denver Broncos 5. 🐆 Bank of America Stadium – 73,778 · Carolina Panthers 6. 🏹 Arrowhead Stadium – 73,426 · Kansas City Chiefs 7. 🎺 Caesars Superdome – 73,000 · New Orleans Saints 8. 🦅 Mercedes-Benz Stadium – 72,000 · Atlanta Falcons 9. 🤠 Reliant Stadium – 71,995 · Houston Texans 10. ☀️ SoFi Stadium – 71,500 · Los Angeles Rams; Los Angeles Chargers 11. 🐦‍⬛ M&T Bank Stadium – 70,765 · Baltimore Ravens 12. 🦅 Lincoln Financial Field – 69,879 · Philadelphia Eagles 13. ⚔️ Nissan Stadium – 69,143 · Tennessee Titans 14. 🐦 Lumen Field – 68,740 · Seattle Seahawks 15. ⛏️ Levi's Stadium – 68,500 · San Francisco 49ers 16. ⚙️ Acrisure Stadium – 68,400 · Pittsburgh Steelers 17. 🧡 Huntington Bank Field – 67,827 · Cleveland Browns 18. 🏛️ Northwest Stadium – 67,617 · Washington Commanders 19. 🪖 U.S. Bank Stadium – 66,468 · Minnesota Vikings 20. 🏴‍☠️ Raymond James Stadium – 65,844 · Tampa Bay Buccaneers Source: NFL

MetLife leads at 82,500, Lambeau Field is second at 81,041, and AT&T Stadium third at 80,000, with the capacities credited to the NFL. Handy settling material for anyone planning a road trip or arguing about which building actually holds the most.

The post
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Source: Cata Paul (X) · Published September 17, 2026
Posted September 17 by @DeadlineDayLive on X.

Transfer News Live: Boehly, Walter, and Wyss have sold their Chelsea stakes to Clearlake Capital

🚨 BREAKING: Chelsea chairman Todd Boehly, director Mark Walter and Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss have sold their stakes in the club to Clearlake Capital. The trio each held 12.8%, while Clearlake previously owned 61.5%. The deal gives the investment firm, led by co-founders Behdad Eghbali and José E. Feliciano, full control of Chelsea Football Club. (Source: @BBCSport)

The three each held 12.8% of the club and Clearlake already owned 61.5%, so the sale hands the investment firm full control at Stamford Bridge. The post relays a BBC Sport report and names Behdad Eghbali and Jose E. Feliciano as the Clearlake co-founders now running it.

The post
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Source: Transfer News Live (X) · Published September 17, 2026
Posted September 17 by @World_Insights1 on X.

World Insights posts an illustrated map of English football clubs by location

⚽ England's Football Map: Clubs Across the Country

Every English and Welsh club placed where it actually sits, illustrated by Riccardo D'Agnese. The kind of thing that starts an argument about how many clubs are crammed into the north west.

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Source: World Insights (X) · Published September 17, 2026
Posted September 17 by @Footy_Headlines on X.

Footy Headlines: Germany will wear the 1990 remake away kit against the Netherlands

😱 Germany will wear their 1990 remake away kit away against the Netherlands

The green adidas remake of the 1990 World Cup-winning away shirt finally gets a fixture to wear it in. Our agenda has Netherlands vs. Germany in the UEFA Nations League on September 24 at the Johan Cruijff ArenA, though the post itself names no date and links no product page.

The post
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Source: Footy Headlines (X) · Published September 17, 2026

Community posts surfaced by the editor from public feeds. Posts may not be independently confirmed.