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: Hall of Famers of the future, The National, MLB chatter, Topps Chrome, Caitlin Clark and more.

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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: New pulls, Topps Chrome, The National, Autographics and ... PSA is grading comic books? (Yep.)

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What: 2024 Panini Gold Standard football cards
Arrives: Sept. 13, 2024
Box basics: Five autos or memorabilia cards per seven-card box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Gold Standard arrives for a new season with the familiar golden touches and plenty more to chase with some notable nods to the past among the potential finds.

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What: 2023-24 Panini One and One NBA cards
Arrives: Sept. 13, 2024
Box basics: One encased autograph and one other card per box (10 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: For Year Five of this brand, One once again hits the hardwood with a little extra -- that's the "and One" part -- with the same formula with plenty of rookies and other highlights.

Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.

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Smaller boxes, smaller print runs and perhaps a bigger up-side to exclusive rarities? Perhaps.

That's one thought with an early wave of Panini International boxes from Panini America -- no, it's not a new branch of the global collectibles empire, it's a new wave of packaging for a number of releases with exclusives inside to get cards into more collectors' hands around the world.

It's a push the company revealed in late-May a push that "will integrate many of best hobby elements – more exclusive parallels, inserts, autographs, memorabilia and more" in basketball, football and soccer releases.

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What: 2023 Panini National Treasures football cards
Arrives: Sept. 4, 2024
Box basics: Six autographs or memorabilia cards per box (four boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: National Treasures hits the gridiron for another year with booklet cards, current rookies and stars and more all in store.

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

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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: Topps Chrome chatter, new pulls, The National is almost here, grading chatter, a Bronny James question and more in this Friday edition.

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What: 2024 Leaf In The Game Used Sports cards
Arrives: Oct. 30
Box basics: Five hits per box (10 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf's multi-sport premium brand once again takes on the entire sports world with a mix of notable possibilities from the legends of the past to recent superstars all in one spot -- and this time, according to Leaf, it will be "the most-exciting, value-driven and content-filled version to date."

Keep reading for more as well as a full gallery of images released so far.

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What: 2024 TRISTAR Hidden Treasures Autographed Full-size Helmets
Arrives: Sept. 13
Box basics: One autographed full-size authentic helmet per box (three boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: This staple of TRISTAR's Hidden Treasures brand of autographed memorabilia lineup arrives for a new season with a new batch of full-size signed authentic-model helmets that are inked by some of the game's greatest players of today as well as top newcomers.

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What: 2024 Topps Chrome Star Wars trading cards
Arrives: Aug. 9
Box basics: One autograph per 10-pack box (eight boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Star Wars hits Chrome with a smaller box size this time but with an autograph in every box and plenty of focus on the memorable characters from throughout the franchise. This one also introduces a debut medallion logo noting a character's first time on cardboard.

Keep reading for more as well as a gallery.

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Leaf Trading Cards will have some chase cards up for grabs at this year's National Sports Collectors Convention. 

The company revealed on Thursday its box-break redemption program for the show that kicks off next Wednesday in Cleveland.

A collector who opens a box of one of six Leaf releases at the company's booth during the show will get two promo packs made for this year's show.

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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: 2021-22 Panini Prizm NBA cards (hanger pack)
First Buzz preview: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for a few formats)

Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery of what was in this one.

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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: 2023 Topps Chrome Platinum baseball cards (blaster)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com
First Buzz preview with checklist: Click here ... see odds here

Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery of what was in this one.

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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: 2021 Panini Chronicles NFL football cards (cereal box)
First Buzz preview: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for a few formats beyond this one)

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This is quite possibly my best grab-bag buy ever.

This latest ball in the Collecting Game-used series is one where there's a franchise icon attached, an entire at-bat and even an impressive hit all in one. I can't say that I've ever landed that from what's essentially a blind grab-bag kind of buy, but that happened for me with a ball that was pulled from the field less than two months ago before making its way into my collection this week for just $29.95 -- substantially less than a Chrome blaster box out there in the retail wild and perhaps substantially less than it might cost as a known hit ball with the big name attached. The only thing I had a choice in here? I picked the date -- so I knew the two teams that would be attached and that's it.

Keep reading to see the details this time ... and the ball in action.

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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: Topps Chrome is here, The National nears, collecting MiLB, taking the L in prospecting, Rece Hinds and MLB All-star reactions.

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What: 2024 Leaf Electrum Baseball cards
Arrives: Aug. 30
Box basics: Four autographed cards per seven-card box (10 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf brings its new line to the diamond with a mix of MLB newcomers, top amateurs on NIL deals, newly drafted players and past legends all together with ink the main -- but not only -- inclusion in this colorful release.

Keep reading for more info and a full gallery.

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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: 2024 Topps Series 2 baseball cards (mega)
First Buzz preview & checklist/odds: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (a few formats)

Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery of what was in this one.

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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: 2022 Panini Select WWE wrestling cards (blaster)
First Buzz preview & checklist: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for a different option)

Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery of what was in this one.

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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: Paul Skenes and MLB All-Star chatter, showing off Topps MLB sketch cards, new pulls and more in this all-baseball edition.

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TRISTAR will have plenty going on at The National this year with all of the autograph signers, but that's not all -- the company once again also will have bonus bags for collectors who buy boxes from dealers at the show and bring them to its booth to open them.

Selected retailers will have your shot at getting a TRISTAR bonus bag at the show.

Three TRISTAR Hidden Treasures products are eligible for this one and bonus bags will include shots at autographed memorabilia pieces from Tom Brady, Muhammad Ali, Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams for starters.

And that's not all.

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Take a minute and make some predictions and picks -- and if you're at the top of the mountain when it's over then you get free cards.

It's always that simple.

YourDozen.com is back with more free cardboard up for grabs to one lucky winner -- this time it's for Sunday MLB action as well as some Majority Rules questions. Those questions are simple -- whatever gets the most votes is the winning answer -- and we've sprinkled in those along with the traditional picks. The end result is still the same -- whomever has the most correct answers once the dust settles wins free cards.

You have until 1 p.m. on Sunday to get your picks and predictions in. (Do it now -- one of the tiebreakers is who entered first.) The prize is once again a mystery item.

>>> CLICK HERE TO ENTER <<< 

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? It's short and simple. Register and you'll get a dozen questions where your answers will be compiled and compared to others. Whomever gets the most correct gets the prize -- or at least a shot at it if there's a tie.

The goal with YourDozen.com? Have a little fun and get free stuff into some of your hands.

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What: 2023 Topps Composite football cards
Arrives: Aug. 16
Box basics: Three autos per 12-pack box (12 boxes per case) or three autos per 10-card breaker's delight box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Odds: Click here 
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Topps takes the field in the unlicensed realm for many past and a few present NFL players with a new brand that takes an all-in-one approach chronicling those stars via several brands all in one spot.

Keep reading for more info and a gallery of images.

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This year's National Sports Collectors Convention is just days away -- it's set for July 24-28 in Cleveland -- and Upper Deck has revealed its promotional plans for the event.

The company will produce a wrapper redemption set for starters with a meaty checklist that includes an array of subjects from its sports and autographs from some legends of the past, too.

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Update (July 14): After the first day of the 2024 MLB Draft, 22 of the 24 eligible players in the card set included in this issue  have been picked, including 13 of the first 14 selected on Sunday night. Overall, 18 were first-rounders, while one of the two 2024 players who went un-drafted actually withdrew to play for LSU next year. For those attending this year's National Sports Collectors Convention in Cleveland, hit the Blowout Cards booth (No. 5,010) on Friday, July 26. Beginning at 11 a.m., the first 500 visitors can get a free copy of the issue.

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Baseball America's annual Draft Preview issue is here and it's jam-packed with facts and other info that all card prospectors simply need heading into the MLB Draft this weekend. The issue also spotlights a few future stars.

The biggest issue of the year features player profiles and scouting reports for 100 players, a list of 100 more to check out beyond those names, a mock draft, comparisons of today's notables to past stars, BA's annual All-America teams for both the college and prep ranks and even, in some copies of this issue, exclusive prospect cards

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