What: 2016 Leaf Greatest Hits football cards
Arrives: October-November (TBD)
Box basics: Four buyback cards and one Predictor card per box (two boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf expands upon its buyback products with the arrival of this one, which celebrates everything that's great about football cards."

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Details are still to come for the Beckett Covers card set at this year's National Sports Collectors Convention that kicks off a week from today in Atlantic City, N.J., but BlowoutCards.com will have things covered in a deluxe way for those attempting to collect 'em all.

The card only available at the Blowout booth will be a limited edition double-sided card featuring two of the top rookies in two leagues -- the NFL's No. 2 draft pick and future Philadelphia Eagles QB Carson Wentz on the front and the NBA's No. 1 pick Ben Simmons of the Philadelphia 76ers on the back.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Allen & Ginter, Bret Saberhagen, a trip to Turner Field, inside a Rip Card, The National and dirty Ted Williams.

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Los Angeles Angels pitcher Hector Santiago didn't grow up a collector as a kid in New Jersey, but all it took was a pair of New York Yankees jerseys to start a collection.

Now he's known as "Hector The Collector" to his teammates.

Fox Sports West recently caught up with him to go inside his hobby room. Check it out ... after the jump.

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What: Yu-Gi-Oh! Destiny Soldiers
Arrives: Nov. 18
Box basics: Five cards per pack, 24 packs per box (12 boxes per case)

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The NBA's biggest offseason signing will get a part of the spotlight at the National Sports Collectors Convention beginning next week in Atlantic City, N.J.

And Kevin Durant's autographs will be there, too.

The newest member of the Golden State Warriors recently made his cardboard debut with his new team via Panini Instant but his first autographed cards in his new uniform will be part of the Panini America wrapper redemption program at the show.

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Now that 2016 Topps Allen & Ginter has arrived, we get our second of the Kevin Costner autographed movie cards released by Topps this year.

While his Allen & Ginter card is not branded as a Field of Dreams card on the front, it does list (Ray) Kinsella as his name on the front. His 2016 Topps Archives card is clearly a Bull Durham card for the memorable Crash Davis character.

Both are memorable movies, which leads to a question of pure curiosity here ... which one would you want? Tell Buzz here on the poll or via Twitter.

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What: 2017 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Adamgeddon Series 1 trading cards
Arrives: Jan. 20
Box basics: One hit per Hobby Collector box (eight boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: The Garbage Pail Kids bring a little chaos into the new year with Adam Bomb's takes on Adam-geddon as part of a 220-card set with the end of the world as we know it being taken on by those lovable-but-twisted brats.

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It's baacckkk....details in the coming days pic.twitter.com/Ngd0YJBt0I

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) July 26, 2016

Update: They will be returning as a stadium giveaway of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during a game this season, according to this story from ESPN.

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Starting Lineup figures will apparently be returning sometime soon, according to ESPN Sports Business Reporter Darren Rovell.

The brand of small sports figures arrived beginning in 1988 via Kenner until its close in 2000 and then via Hasbro until 2001. Figures were available for the four major sports and beyond with each typically arriving with a trading card and sometimes other items within the packaging.

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A pair of Relics of ESPN personalities from 2016 Topps Allen & Ginter pulled on BlowoutTV on Tuesday seemed a bit different.

And that's so Ginter.

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He's been in the public eye as an NFL player and ESPN analyst every year since 1973, but Tom Jackson may finally have time to do something he's rarely done before.

Sign autographs for a card company and appear on some football cards.

The New York Daily News is reporting that Jackson may be leaving ESPN, where he's been part of NFL broadcasts since 1987. It's been a successful run, and, in 2015, he received the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award which honors “longtime exceptional contributions to radio and television in professional football.”

Jackson's NFL career ended the season before his ESPN arrival and it's a career that's rarely seen on cardboard despite an explosion in card products in all those years since.

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What: 2016 Panini Spectra soccer cards
Arrives: Sept. 29
Box basics: Five autographs or memorabilia cards per 10-card box (five boxes per case).

What's buzz-worthy: Panini brings Spectra to the pitch with plenty of hits, parallels and diecuts as we have seen in the past with the same super-thick stock and crazy color but with the stars of the past and present included.

Keep reading for more info and a full gallery.

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San Diego Comic-Con has come and gone and Mile High Comics owner Chuck Rozanski offered some interesting thoughts on one facet of the event that has continued to grow over the years as it has exploded into way more than simply a comic book show.

Exclusives.

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What: 2015-16 Panini Flawless basketball cards
Arrives: Sept. 14
Box basics: Seven autographs, two jewel cards and one Jumbo Patch memorabilia card per 10-card briefcase (two boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Flawless returns with all the things collectors have come to expect from the ultra high-end brand and every card in 2015-16 Flawless will be numbered to no more than 25 copies.

Keep reading for more info and a full gallery of images released so far.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Allen & Ginter, Allen & Ginter, Allen & Ginter, Aroldis Chapman, 1986-87 Fleer and The National.

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At the finale of his Hall of Fame speech on Sunday, Junior donned his trademark backward cap.

On Monday, Topps made Ken Griffey Jr.'s moment one of its newest Topps Now cards.

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What: 2017 Topps MLB Sticker Collection
Arrives: March 2
Box basics: Eight stickers per pack per 50-pack box (16 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: The first product of 2017 is here and it's the basic must-do for many younger collectors -- stickers.

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Not long after Upper Deck's 2015-16 Ultimate Collection hockey set arrives in hobby shops on Aug. 31, it will also appear on the company's e-Pack platform that allows collectors without hobby shops to rip in virtually with a shot at cards in reality.

But what about the 1/1 creations? Upper Deck has addressed its plans for the high-end brand.

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One of baseball's top prospects is getting the call on Monday.

The Houston Astros will call up former LSU star Alex Bregman after a solid second season in the minor leagues where he's hit .306 with 20 homers and 61 RBI in 80 games between Double-A Corpus Christi and Triple-A Fresno.

"We feel like this is a good time to add him to a good team," Astros manager A.J. Hinch told the Houston Chronicle. "We're rolling along pretty well. He doesn't have to come up here and be anything but himself and contribute at a couple different positions."

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You never know where you'll see baseball cards and late-night TV is one place where some good ol' American cardboard surfaced.

Actor Viggo Mortensen was on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and brought some gifts for the host.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Griffey to Cooperstown, Chris Sale & his scissors, new breaks, 2016 Topps Allen & Ginter, The National & more.

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Card of the Day: A Chris Sale 2013 Topps Tribute Commemorative Cuts Relic -- with a cut piece of his game-used jersey.

Why? Well, you may not have watched TV lately but Sale was suspended five games by the Chicago White Sox after he reportedly cutting up the team's throwback jerseys the team was supposed to have worn on Saturday night. Rather than pitch wearing a certain style uniform, he reportedly destroyed the uniforms before being sent home.

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Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza are in Cooperstown, N.Y., this weekend to join baseball's immortals as the newest members of the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday.

One is the first No. 1 overall draft pick to ever make it to the Hall. The other is the lowest draft pick to ever be enshrined in Cooperstown.

Griffey received 99.3 percent of the vote -- a record and three votes short of unanimous -- after his first time on the ballot. Meanwhile, Piazza appeared on 83 percent of the 440 ballots in his fourth vote.

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Hillary Clinton's selection for her vice-presidential running mate appears on a handful of trading cards, but you'll have to go find some old packs of football cards to find his first one.

Virginia Senator and former Virginia Governor Tim Kaine first appeared on cardboard back in 2009 when Topps released an Allen & Ginter-styled football set called Topps Mayo.

There, in the 2009 Topps Mayo United States Governors insert set you'll find him nestled between James H. Douglas and Christine Gregoire in the 50-card set. These cards were among a few mini insert sets with cards found six times per hobby box.

That makes this a bit of a tough pull, but it's not his only cardboard.

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San Diego Comic-Con is here and several companies collectors are familiar with can be found on the show floor at the biggest show of them all.

It's an impossibility to see it all -- even if you're there -- but Buzz has scoured a few manufacturers' Twitter accounts to show off a few of their displays and scenes from the show as well as some of the items they'll have on display and available.

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