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

What's Buzzing Today: Postseason MLB is here, new pulls, Gardner Minshew, eBay drama and more in today's edition.

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What: 2019 Leaf Wrestling Autographed Photograph Edition
Arrives: Nov. 29
Box basics: Five autographed photos in every box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: After a year watching the action from catering, Leaf puts its autographed wrestling photo product back on the main card with "an incredible selection of wrestling's top names from both the past and today."

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What: 2019-20 Topps Finest UEFA Champions League soccer
Arrives: July 1
Box basics: Two autographs per 12-pack box (eight boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Topps brings Finest to the Champions League once again with something simple, something new but something that should be a big deal to many out there -- on-card autographs -- in the mix.

Keep reading for more as well as a gallery of images.

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The Panini NFL Player of The Day promotion is back for its 20th season on the field and in hobby shops -- and that means bonus cards and potentially even more for some collectors.

For one collector that will mean spending time with an NFL player but for many others there will be autographs and other stuff to be had.

“Not too many things in the NFL have been around as long as Tom Brady and, just like the legendary quarterback, our Player of the Day program has been incredibly successful,” said Jason Howarth, Panini VP of Marketing, in a prepared release. “In addition to the lucky collectors who have had a chance to spend a day with an NFL player, millions more have won prizes while hobby shops have sold more packs of Panini trading cards.”
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Friday is Panini National Racing Card Day and Blowout Cards has a little something planned to rev your engines.

Panini America revealed its plans for a new hobby bonus day this past weekend and its bonuses coincide with the arrival of 2019 Panini Prizm NASCAR cards, which hit the finish line on Friday.

While Panini's plans include a bonus pack for every box purchased, we're upping the ante if you're one who might go the case route.

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YourDozen.com is in its fifth week of a simplified picks format -- it's just NFL for now, but against the spread.

That change and uptick in competitors the last few weeks still has not resulted to a single perfect score -- this past weekend's winner was close once again, but it's something that has not happened in all year in our free picks-with-a-click challenge. Oh, and this week's prize? A a red-hot 2019 Topps Chrome Sapphire box that sold out last week via Topps in mere minutes.

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Did you get in on last week's action? Check the leaderboard and contact fish@blowoutcards.com to claim your prize if you're the winner.

How does it work? Keep reading ...

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What: 2019 Onyx Premiere Gear Collection
Arrives: Oct. 31
Box basics: One game-used memorabilia piece per box
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Onyx Authenticated presents its newest collection of game-used memorabilia in this MLBPA-approved release that includes a little bit of everything from some of the biggest young names in the game.

Keep reading for more info, including a full checklist.

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2019 Topps Allen & Ginter baseball cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)

Packs per box: 8
Cards per pack: 6
Cards in this box: 47
Base set completion: 
27 of 300 (9 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Hank Aaron, Shohei Ohtani, Travis Pastrana, Juan Marichal, Gleyber Torres, Bob Feller, Vladimir Guerrero, Brooks Robinson

Rookie Cards (1) – Patrick Wisdom

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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 a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: New breaks, paying college athletes, fake cardboard and "please stop me from overpaying for a card."

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Like many collectors, Buzz is a fan of grading and knows that there are many reasons that collectors choose to slab cards. Sometimes it's to enhance the appeal and protect them when selling. Other times it's to protect an investment for the long-term or to protect for sentimental reasons. Or, it might be just for fun or curiosity about a potential grade.

Here's this month's grading diary here on The Buzz ...

The Card: Ronald Acuña Jr. 2018 Topps Chrome Update #HMT25 Rookie Card
The Reason Graded: I only opened a couple of mega boxes for this brand but did land this guy -- and, man, do I wish this card had used the bat-down photo. (What could have been?) I recently revisited a few of my boxes holding the finds of my buys last year and this one struck me as a clean example worth a slab, especially with him having had an elite season coming up just short of being the youngest member of the elite 40-40 Club.
The Grade: BGS 9.5

Reality Check: Turns out I was right, though this is a card that's heavily graded with a growing pop report since I submitted this one. There was a 10 grade right after mine in the serial-numbering line and there have been plenty of 9.5s graded since -- and even the 10s aren't all that rare for this one. There's plenty here to feed the demand for a guy who should be on collector radars for years. You'll see more of Acuña here.

Keep reading for more of this month's new slabs for Buzz.

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