Kris Bryant Auto Superfractor coming to a repack near you (hopefully!)

The Kris Bryant autograph superfractor has found a home – only to be going to a new home, and maybe a new place after that.

Prospect Rush is a repack product featuring the ultimate break for prospectors. The company has said on Twitter that it purchased the Kris Bryant 2013 Bowman Chrome Superfractor Autograph to be put into an upcoming product.

The company likely spent A LOT of money. But this type of hype will bring attention to the company (see: this post), and get case breakers, prospectors, and thrill seekers to purchase it.

It seems as though the Bryant will be placed in Prospect Rush Draft, which is scheduled to come out in May.

This is an interesting take on repack products. Many of them tend to focus on a specific sport, but Prospect Rush goes for a smaller part of the marker. The cards include many Bowman and Bowman Chrome autographs, many of which are graded. The cards it has shown off on its Twitter page features many of the current top prospects .

There are several repack companies these days with Prospect Rush, Leaf, Fairfield, and Super Break Sports. Let’s talk about repack products in this week’s #CardChat on Twitter. Tune in at 3 p.m. on Monday.

Hobby news making its way into the mainstream

Every once in a while something in our little card world breaks its way into mainstream media. Usually, it has to do when a card is worth lots and lots of money.

It’s happened again. Kris Bryant's 2013 Bowman Chrome Superfractor Autograph has turned up and the card is on eBay with a BIN of $89,999. Will the card go for $90K? Of course not, but the consigner says there are offers of on table between $35K and $45K, according to a Fox Sports report.

Prospecting is a crazy part of this hobby. Guys who have yet to play even a second of Major League Baseball can have their cards sell for thousands. The same happened with Stephen Strasburg and Bryce Harper’s Superfractors. Now, it’s Kris Bryant’s turn.

But don’t tell this to the doomsday media outlets. There was a video piece in the Washington Post recently entitled The Rise and Fall of Baseball Cards. Short version: Collecting isn’t the same as it was in the boom of the 1980s and 90s (but, really, what is?), card shops are closing and baseball players don’t like to smile at 7 a.m.

Yet, there is no mention of how ecommerce has affected the hobby. No mention of eBay, COMC, cards being sold on Amazon. No talk of prospecting or how vintage collecting is bigger than it has ever been. Nothing about those who only sell online spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a year or group breakers – you’re never going to see those guys selling at a card show or opening a hobby shop, but they exist.

As someone who has spent more than a decade in the news world, it can be difficult to get over your biases when beginning a story. You have a preconceived notion, but it’s important to keep an open mind and ask questions to get the full story rather than mold a story into hole you created. Maybe MSM can get it right the next time.