2022 Panini Absolute Baseball Checklist

2022 Panini Absolute Baseball mixes a 100-card base of all-time greats with a rookie class built on unusual materials, including signed booklets, leather and wood. Released June 10, 2022, it adds a 100-card Spectrum set, Kaboom inserts and a wide range of memorabilia and autograph cards.

What's in the checklist

• Base: 100 cards with Retail, Retail Green, Retail Lava, Silver Holo, Retail Red /99, Retail Holo Gold /10 and Retail Holo Black /1, plus a 100-card Spectrum set from Blue /149 to Black /1
• Rookie autographs: 62-card Rookie Baseball Material Booklet Signatures (and a Black/White Seams version), Rookie Leather Signatures in tan and black leather, Rookie Wood Signatures and Rookie Ink
• Inserts: Kaboom, By Storm, Extreme Team, Hall Worthy, Icons, Statistically Speaking, Historical Duals, Marks of Fame and Rookie Class
• Memorabilia: Absolute Heroes Memorabilia, Hall of Fame Memorabilia, Patches, Team Tandem Materials and Tools of the Trade two-, three- and four-swatch cards, many also signed

Key players

The base set features Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Stan Musial, Roy Campanella, Thurman Munson and Jimmie Foxx. The rookie booklets include Wander Franco, Oneil Cruz, Seth Beer and Vidal Brujan, and Rookie Class covers Jarren Duran, Brandon Marsh and Reid Detmers. Veteran booklets add Shohei Ohtani, Fernando Tatis Jr., Yordan Alvarez, Sandy Koufax and George Brett.

Grading considerations

Material Booklet Signatures, the leather and wood rookie autographs, and Kaboom inserts are among the cards collectors commonly consider for grading. Booklets and wood cards need larger holders, and leather and wood surfaces show dents and scuffs that differ from standard card stock. See our grading scale.