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What's Buzzing Today: Nothing but breaks and World Series chatter today.

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We got a preview of the possibilities of the postseason last week when Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder/utility player Enrique Hernandez smacked three home runs in Game 5 of the NLCS.

His few baseball cards suddenly had a lot more interest and that's something that David Freese, Andruw Jones, David Eckstein and many others can relate to. The postseason and the World Series is where new stars are born, especially on cardboard.

Hernandez played his first MLB game in 2014 -- and was drafted five years before that, ironically by the Houston Astros, who he'll face in the World Series beginning tonight -- and through all that time he'd barely appeared on 100 different baseball cards, got just one Rookie Card and one certified autograph before a rainbow of Topps Now cards arrived last Friday.

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"Giannis Antetokounmpo: The night the legend was born"

"This is just the beginning"

"'He really could be anything' -- Giannis Antetokounmpo is about to take over the NBA"

Those were just some of the headlines about, if you haven't figured it out, Giannis Antetokounmpo, the Milwaukee Bucks forward who has lit up the NBA in the first week of a new season with 38.3 points and 9.7 rebounds per game. Breaking down the first week of the season, SI.com noted that "The Freak" is not like others on its list of 12 biggest surprises so far.

"Some of the trends on this list will soon disappear," reads Rob Mahoney's piece. "This is real — a fledgling MVP candidacy behind one of basketball’s transcendent talents."

Keep reading for the basics on this potential MVP's cardboard after his career-high 44-point game this weekend.

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Three autographed baseballs representing a cult classic episode of The Simpsons and a subsequent "mockumentary" of the episode will benefit the charity of a baseball icon soon.

It's all part of a Goldin Auctions sale of baseballs signed by those involved in "Springfield of Dreams" which aired last night as part of a 25th anniversary celebration of "Homer at the Bat" a year that also included honors at the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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What: 2017 Topps Archives Snapshots baseball cards
Arrives: Oct. 19 via Topps.com
Box basics: One autograph per 12-card box (100 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here 

What's buzz-worthy: This online-exclusive arrives for its sophomore season with an autograph and a parallel inside every pack along with a selection of base cards.

Keep reading for more info.

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New York Yankees fans have plenty to ? about this season -- and Steiner Sports is on it.

The New Rochelle, N.Y.-based company revealed on Wednesday that it's offering three "Thumbs Down" autographed baseballs to go with the team's sarcastic trend that has it pushing toward a possible World Series appearance.

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What: 2017 The Bar Pieces of The Past Volume 2 trading cards
Arrives: Mid-November
Box basics: One memorabilia card per box (10 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Super Break once again takes a look at history with a mix of cut autographs and memorabilia cards that include pieces of handwritten letters, presidential documents, land grants and more.

Keep reading for a gallery and more info.

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The newest Topps on Demand set is out of this galaxy.

It's the 2017 Topps on Demand Star Wars Rebels Season 4 Preview set and it includes an autograph card in every single one of them.

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Collectors who rip into packs of 2017 Topps Update, which officially arrives tomorrow, will find the third series of MLB Network personalities.

These nine cards are a continuation of the 2017 Topps MLB Network set that began in Series 1 and continued in Series 2 -- and all of them can be seen in the gallery here.

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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: NFL Breaks, Aaron Rodgers' replacement, big pulls and "are we in an autograph bubble?"

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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: Meeting Tom Brady, trading Carson Wentz, O.J. Simpson is signing and more as we head into the weekend.

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It's Friday The 13th.

Rumor has it, today's the day for bad luck -- and it's been that way for years -- but today's also a day for horror movie fans to celebrate a franchise with a dozen films and the iconic Jason Voorhees.

But if you want an autograph from Kane Hodder, the first person to play "Jason" in more than one Friday The 13th film, well, you have limited options.

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Wrestling fans who are gamers probably know all about the arrival of WWE 2K18 on Friday, but there's a collecting angle that's part of at least one edition of the game.

It's the (John) Cena Nuff Edition that arrives with a personally autographed print that is grouped with a piece of match-used ring mat from his record-tying 16th championship-clinching victory.

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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: Pondering vintage grades, big NBA and NFL breaks, legendary ink and collectors react to the death of a Hall of Famer.

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What: 2017 Elite Extra Edition baseball cards
Arrives: Dec. 6
Box basics: One autographed Future Threads Silhouette, six-to-seven autographs and two-to-three memorabilia cards per five-pack box (20 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here to view

What's buzz-worthy: Elite once again arrives with a heavy emphasis on the hits and with case cards that are limited to no more than 999 copies with 10 parallels apiece.

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

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Whether it was his strong showing that led to a win in the American League Wild Card Game or his everyman reaction to his catcher's foul-ball incident, more than a few baseball fans saw New York Yankees pitcher David Robertson on Tuesday night.

What they won't be able to see? A certified autograph of the former Yankees closer on an official MLB baseball card.

Seriously.

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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: 2017 Cryptozoic DC Comics Bombshells
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com 

Packs per box: 24 plus one Golden Goddess vinyl figure
Cards per pack: 5
Cards in this box: 120
Base set completion: 
64 of 64 (100 percent)
Duplicates: 3

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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: Trubisky Time, big NFL pulls, Topps Now sets & more.

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Texas just might be the home to the NFL's hottest new rookie.

That was certainly the case on Sunday as Houston Texans QB Deshaun Watson lit things up with five touchdowns -- four in the air, one on the ground -- as part of a record-breaking day for his team.

The Texans put up 57 points -- a new team record -- while Watson's TD total tied the NFL record for a rookie quarterback. And, according to the team, he's the first rookie QB to throw four and rush for one since Hall of Famer Fran Tarkenton back in 1961.

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It's a simple autograph signed years ago with a ballpoint pen on what was likely an index card, but it's a piece of hobby history.

It's Pat Tillman's first certified autograph and it's going to be pulled by someone soon from a pack of 2017 Donruss Certified Cuts.

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The Garbage Pail Kids have called in some Hollywood friends for their next release.

Topps revealed on Thursday that its We Hate the 1980s set coming in January will include autographs from the cast of ABC's The Goldbergs. 

Who'll make the cut and become one of the Kids?

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What: 2017 TRISTAR Hidden Treasures Game Day Greats Football Jersey Edition
Arrives: Nov. 8
Box basics: One autographed football jersey per box (five boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: TRISTAR's Hidden Treasures line tries on jerseys for a new football season with a lineup of past and present greats from the NFL as well as some new stars from the college ranks.

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What's Buzzing Today: Nothing but breaks in today's edition ... check 'em out.

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The Green Bay Packers' quarterback has a new home -- at least for autographs.

Steiner Sports revealed on Tuesday that it has signed Super Bowl champion and two-time league MVP Aaron Rodgers to an exclusive deal for autographed memorabilia.

He joins a roster of new signees that includes the Golden State Warriors' Stephen Curry and New York Yankees shortstop Didi Gregorius and a football roster that previously included Eli Manning, Odell Beckham Jr., Lou Holtz and Archie Manning among others.

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What happens when a New York Yankees star sets a new MLB rookie home run record with his 50th longball of the year?

His baseball cards just keep on selling.

Aaron Judge is that Yankee and thanks to several years' of prospecting sets and his blazing 2017 Rookie Card arrival he's arguably the hottest cardboard in the hobby today and pretty much has been all season long. As we documented here previously, he's got plenty of ink. And there's been plenty made this summer -- at the point where he had a dozen home runs this year, he had more than 400 different autographed cards.

Now? He's pushing 700. Seriously.

If you don't have a Judge auto, where should you start? Consider these 12 sets or specific cards as mentioned here previously on The Buzz -- or one of the many that has arrived since then.

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