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What's Buzzing: Talking Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes, a hair-raising WWE box, new breaks and an eyeroll in this Friday edition.

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What's Buzzing: Big pulls, big releases, big questions and talking 2021 Stadium Club in today's edition.

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What: 2021 Topps Stadium Club baseball cards
Arrives: June 23
Box basics: Two autographs per 16-pack box (16 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Stadium Club hits the field 30 years after its debut and includes some nods to the past as well as many of the inclusions that collectors have enjoyed in recent years.

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What: 2021 Topps Transcendent Collection Hall of Fame Edition baseball cards
Arrives: May 12
Box basics: 45 autographs and more per box
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Transcendent returns with its Hall of Fame focus and this time includes even more rare cards showcasing legends from Cooperstown's ranks as well as some new twists not seen in Transcendent releases in the past.

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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: Talking bubbles, showing off "1% collections," big breaks and some hot Barstool Sports cardboard.

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In its first 10 months, The Modern Wax Fund reflected some crazy times in the sports card world.

How crazy? The Fund's valuation report of the underlying asset holdings during its rookie season shows an overall increase of 195.1 percent, fueled by an explosion of interest for the recent-year NBA assets. Basketball boxes alone jumped 301 percent in a year, while NFL also had a 164-percent jump and "other sports" (in lower total volume) jumped 194 percent.

This first-of-its-kind private-equity fund focused on trading cards is a creation of Attic Investments and Blowout Cards. It started with more than $3 million in unopened product -- some of the rarest and most-desired baseball, basketball, football and other cards from the modern era -- last February with a $25,000 minimum buy-in from investors.

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What: 2021 Topps Allen & Ginter baseball cards
Arrives: Aug. 11
Box basics: Three hits in every 24-pack hobby box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
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What's buzz-worthy: Allen & Ginter returns for another summer of new retro-styled cardboard with some familiar touches, some new chases and, well, plenty of unexpected cardboard from this long-running brand.

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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: Matt Stafford will be leaving the Lions, pondering another Super Bowl for Patrick Mahomes, big pulls, Stranger Things 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: Remembering Hank Aaron, chasing Tom Brady Rookie Cards, big pulls and more.

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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 Leaf Perfect Game National Showcase baseball cards
Where to buy: Here when available ... see all Perfect Game boxes here

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What's Buzzing: Collectors react to the Hank Aaron news, show off his cards and more in today's edition.

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MLB has lost one of its icons.

Hall of Famer Hank Aaron, who hit a record 755 home runs as a model of record-setting consistency, died Friday at age 86, according to his daughter.

"Hammerin' Hank" arrived in the majors at age 20 in 1954 and never left as he was a legend even after his 23-year career as a Brave and a Brewer was over. He surpassed Babe Ruth's 714 home runs on April 8, 1974, and that mark stood until Barry Bonds topped it with his 756th on Aug. 7, 2007. Aaron retired from the game holding 23 records still holds the all-time RBI mark (2,297) in a career that never included any 50-homer campaigns and had just two batting titles and a single MVP award. He won a World Series ring at age 23 with the Braves in Milwaukee (1957) and played in the Series again the following year but never again. He won three Gold Glove awards and was a 25-time All-Star before he was a first-ballot Hall of Fame inductee in 1982.

“Hank Aaron is near the top of everyone’s list of all-time great players," MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said. "His monumental achievements as a player were surpassed only by his dignity and integrity as a person. Hank symbolized the very best of our game, and his all-around excellence provided Americans and fans across the world with an example to which to aspire. His career demonstrates that a person who goes to work with humility every day can hammer his way into history -- and find a way to shine like no other."

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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: 2020 Topps Heritage High Number baseball cards (hobby-pack hanger box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)
First Buzz preview, SPs & checklist: Click 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: Big pulls, big breaks, one post worth a look and some Facebook breaker drama?

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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: 2020 Topps Heritage High Number baseball cards (hobby box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com
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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: Collectors react to the Don Sutton news, collector pet peeves, Kevin Durant, UFC ink to grab, soccer breaks and some oldschool Marvel cardboard all in today's edition.

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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: Waiting on 2021 Topps, MLB breaks, dealing with today's market, WWE & NBA breaks and more in today's edition.

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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: Players buying their own cards, big pulls, Muhammad Ali, boxes that are drying up and ... "Is the current market 'forcing' some of you to sell?"

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What's Buzzing: NFL chatter and big breaks, Barry Bonds, pondering graded-card briefcases and allegedly fake 1991 Topps Desert Shield cards among today's talkers.

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Buzz buys and busts a lot of boxes right here for Buzz Breaks, but one of my goals is to rip a little less and talk more about cardboard that I -- and you -- might like. One way to do that? Simple show and tell -- present a few pick-ups and say why they captured my attention.

So, with all that said, here are a few Buzz Buys ... and this time around it's an oddball edition of stuff I've picked up throughout the last year.

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BERNIE BATTING LEAD-OFF
The Card: Bernie Brewer 2018 Topps Opening Day Mascot Relics
The Price: $8
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This one isn't all that unusual if you know Opening Day's inclusions through the years, but Mascot Relics are still odd in the big picture and mostly only found in this brand that gets a "for the kids" label slapped on it often when it's really one that's "for the collectors." So, what's the catch? Stuff like this has odds so long that you don't see them pop up unless you're ripping in bulk. How rare? This one was close to one in 5,000 packs. There are mascot auto Relics in there, too, at close to one in 94,000 packs. Only seven mascots had these cards in this particular set and I'd argue that this guy might be among the better ones.
Grab a box right here: 2018 Topps Opening Day MLB

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What: 2021 Donruss baseball cards
Arrives: March 3
Box basics: Two autographs and one memorabilia card per 24-pack hobby box (16 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: This one "combines fan-favorite players along with one of the deepest rookie classes ever to get the 2021 season off to a strong start," according to Panini.

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What's Buzzing: Big pulls, a massive Star Wars find, grading chatter, the good ol' pinhole special and more.

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Have you seen the latest cool or interesting items on eBay? If not, you just might see some of those here. We’ll spotlight some items that have a story or just wow us with how much interest it might have — and we’re not just talking baseball cards, either.

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ANNUAL ARRIVALS
The Item: Jerry Jeudy 2020 Panini Playbook Vault booklet (/10)
The Price: $163.50 after 23 bids (four days remaining)
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This is a perfect example of some of the big stuff coming out of boxes of this brand this year. Playbook is a line where you typically get some kind of booklet in every box -- one per this year -- and I can say I've window-shopped this one hard through the years. (I've never been focused enough on any one player to commit and chase something like this, though.) Once the initial flood of cards like this hits eBay they will get a lot tougher to find for a lot of guys -- maybe not the biggest names with the biggest dollar signs -- and that's why watching what arrives right now can be important. Some crazy stuff can already be found on eBay along with this one -- hit that link below.
Similar Pieces: Other Panini Playbook booklets on eBay
The BlowoutCards.com Hunt: Click here for 2020 Panini Playbook NFL

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What's Buzzing: Collectors react to the James Harden trade, Kobe Bryant cards, Sapphire and NFL rips, a big WWE retail pull and ... hey, Houdini, remember 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: 2020 Panini Elite Extra Edition baseball cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)

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