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The box: 2016 Topps Allen & Ginter baseball cards (hobby box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 24 (plus one box-topper)
Cards per pack: 8
Cards in this box: 193
Base set completion: 
125 of 300 (42 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Kris Bryant, Miguel Cabrera, Buster Posey, Josh Donaldson, Joe Morgan, Alex Rodriguez, Andrew McCutchen, Albert Pujols, Roger Clemens

Notable non-baseball base cards – Steve Spurrier, Steve Kerr, Hannah Storm, Monica Abbott, Missy Franklin, Marlins Man

Rookie Cards (24) – Julio Urias (SP), Peter O'Brien (SP), Trevor Brown (SP), Kenta Maeda, Trevor Story, Trea Turner, Michael Conforto, Jose Berrios, Alex Dickerson, Trayce Thompson, Matt Reynolds, Byung Ho Park, Rob Refsnyder, Guido Knudson, Dustin Garneau, Zach Lee, Gary Sanchez, Max Kepler, Carl Edwards Jr. Kaleb Cowart, Jose Peraza, Luke Maile, Tyler White, Kyle Waldrop

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Ken Griffey Jr.'s Hall of Fame bobblehead is a hot commodity on eBay already -- and it's not even out yet.

The Seattle Mariners have a three-day stretch beginning next Friday where the team will honor its first Hall of Famer and retire his No. 24. It begins against the Angels on Friday with this Hall of Fame bobblehead.

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Ken Griffey Jr.'s induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame has had its share of commemorative cardboard and now it's got something more.

New old caps from New Era commemorating The Kid's never-ending trip to Cooperstown and his upcoming number retirement.

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We're less than a week away from the arrival of 2016 Topps Chrome baseball cards -- and this year's rainbow of Refractors could be promising with a design that's primed for parallels.

And, with the arrival of the checklist, we now know what Topps promises inside its packs.

Click here to view the 2016 Topps Chrome baseball card checklist.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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: 2016 Topps Allen & Ginter baseball cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

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

Notables on base cards – Tom Glavine, Robinson Cano, Monica Abbott, Jacob deGrom, Michelle Steele

Rookie Cards (9) – Nomar Mazara, Stephen Piscotty, Aaron Nola, Guido Knudson, Zach Lee, Dustin Garneau, Hector Olivera, Raul Mondesi, Richie Shaffer

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Update: It will arrive on Topps.com on Wednesday, July 27. Price is $69.99 a box or $1,250 per 18-box case. Click here to view the checklist Topps released for the brand.

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Topps is bringing back the X once again.

Last year for the 10th release of its Allen & Ginter brand, Topps created a "parallel" product named Allen & Ginter X for the tobacco-styled brand with a black image background instead of the traditional white.

This year, it's back and it will be an online-only product -- initially only available at Topps.com -- packing a guaranteed autograph in every box.

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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: 2013 Panini Cooperstown baseball cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 6 (five standard packs and one Green Crystal Shard parallel pack)
Cards per pack: 6
Cards in this box: 33
Base set completion: 
20 of 100 (20 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notable players on base cards – Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, Carl Yastrzemski, Jimmie Foxx, Warren Spahn, Lou Gehrig

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A big baseball card is heading to the auction block once again.

A PSA 5 (MC) copy of the 1909 T206 Honus Wagner -- the most-valuable baseball card of all time -- is headed back to the auction block this fall via Goldin Auctions. The Runnemede, N.J.-based company announced the news on Thursday, noting that it will be up for grabs in its "Great American Trading Card Auction" in September after it goes on display at the National Sports Collectors Convention in Atlantic City, N.J.

"Serious collectors understand that every time a card like this is offered for auction, it may be the last time for a long time," said Ken Goldin, the founder of the auction house. "The excitement that the auction of a T206 Wagner generates, coupled with the current booming market for high-grade trading cards, creates the perfect storm for establishing a new standard for sports memorabilia."

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Upper Deck has remembered the late co-founder of the National Sports Collectors Convention with a memorabilia card that will be in limited supply at the upcoming show on Aug. 3-7 in Atlantic City, N.J.

It's a Piece of History memorabilia card for Mike Berkus, who lost a brief cancer battle in November. He was 69.

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We're just a couple of days away from the official arrival of 2016 Topps Allen & Ginter baseball cards, meaning the newest batch of surprise inclusions, World's Champions and downright unusual cardboard will be here to captivate some collectors once again.

The wall art version of the set arrived today, giving us all a glimpse at the base cards and a couple of insert sets.

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What's Buzzing Today: Nothing but the breaks -- old & new NBA, MLB, Goodwin & more.

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Panini America's newest baseball card brand -- 2016 Donruss Optic -- is here with an Optichromed take on 2016 Donruss with some new twists and new takes on cards from the past.

And a new twist just mentioned by Panini last night is that there are Hot Boxes that include five autographs and a number of extra parallels.

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Topps is bringing Bowman promo cards to The National.

The company revealed on Tuesday its plans for the show set for Aug. 3-7 in Atlantic City, N.J., and its wrapper redemption will include a prism foil Bowman Chrome set that has 50 players -- a mix of past, present and future players that includes Kris Bryant, Bryce Harper, Hank Aaron, Mike Trout, Yoan Moncada and Alex Bregman.

And there will be autographs to be found, too.

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