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The box: 2022 Panini Diamond Kings baseball cards (blaster box)
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Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby & FOTL)

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What's Buzzing: New pulls, grading subs, Steph Curry, a Wander Franco mascot card, The National and more.

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What: 2022 Panini Prizm baseball cards
Arrives: July 27
Box basics:  Three autographs per 12-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Prizm hits the field once again with plenty of color and energy in its rainbow of parallels and this year that will include Hot Boxes, too.

Keep reading for more info and a full gallery of images released so far.

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What's Buzzing: New pulls, yes it's a Wander Franco card, post-season NBA chatter, The National and a Project100 issue?

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What's Buzzing: MLB chatter and pulls, a thread to see, pondering what's a patch, great NFL card and what's Steph Curry's cardboard potential?

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If you want to collect 'em all, you'll have to hit an MLB team shop.

Topps and MLB Players Inc. revealed this morning that the 2022 Topps Players Clubhouse baseball card line, which will get a pack of cards into your hands if you buy at least $149 in "officially licensed MLB Players products displaying the MLB Players logo, in a single transaction, at this team store location" beginning on selected dates -- starting today -- while supplies last with a limit of one pack per person.

Packs will not be sold at the participating team shops, according to the announcement.

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What's Buzzing: Yep, it's Wander Franco ... yep, it's Raymond. (No, it's not a Rookie Card.) Plus plenty 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: 2022 Topps Series 2 baseball cards (hobby box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com
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What: 2022 Historic Autographs Trivia Game World Series Cut Signature Edition
Arrives: July 20
Box basics: One cut autograph, 220 trivia question/answer cards, one gameboard poster and four game chips (32 sets per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Historic Autographs takes a gaming twist with its next release -- an affordable release that lets baseball fans chase cut autos from World Series players while also testing their trivia mettle.

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The box: 2022 Panini Absolute Baseball cards (blaster)
First Buzz preview: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)

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Minor league baseball cards from the past can include some weird stuff ... stuff you wouldn't imagine to be found on a baseball card. Here are some some new oddities in this latest edition of MiLB Madness. 

FACES OF FOLEY
The Cards: Chris Mudd 2009 Multi-Ad Reading Phillies #28 & Reading Phillies Update #34
The Buzz On This One: Between all of his personas -- Cactus Jack, Mankind and Dude Love -- pro wrestler Mick Foley has a lot of cardboard appearances but there are others out there that, well, might surprise you. These surprised me as they're from nowhere near a wrestling ring and they're more than a decade old -- and yet I had never seen them before. This card of a minor-league team trainer has a cameo for Foley who was at the Reading game for a guest appearance with his TNA championship that year -- April 22, 2009, to be exact -- and it's actually not even the only Phillies card to show wrestlers or others of note. Why are there two versions? One is from early in the year and toward the end of the season the team opted to release an update set with more players (hence the card number changes) and to change the typography. So, really, there were two Mick Foley baseball cards I didn't know about. You'll see more of Mudd here next month.

Keep reading for more examples of some weird or fun baseball cards you can (almost) only find in MiLB.

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What's Buzzing: The Warriors win it, Steph Curry cards, jersey swaps, new pulls and "was Moneyball overrated?"

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What: 2022 Topps Heritage Minor League baseball cards
Arrives: Nov. 23
Box basics: Two autos per box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Collectors can turn back the clock to 1973 for a third time this year following the minor-league season with this release that celebrates the prospects of the game.

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

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What: 2022 Bowman Inception baseball cards
Arrives: March 3, 2023
Box basics: Two autographs per seven-card box (16 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Bowman Inception returns for another season with more colorful looks at prospects as part of a 100-card base set and plenty more.

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This ball isn't that ball ... but imagine if it was.

That was my first thought when I dug out this one from my reserves for this Collecting Game-used series last night as St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Miles Mikolas was two outs away from a career game -- a no-hitter that came up one strike short of reality -- Tuesday against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

My second thought was, man, how much has the game-used world changed in just a few years with a couple new touches from MLB and MLB Authentication? The MLB Film Room didn't exist back when this baseball was used -- details below -- and the notation on the authentication is pretty basic ... real basic. That's been improved since then, too. This is a game-used ball with some nice use to it (came from a grab-bag style box) and with a couple of MLB All-Stars attached from a game a little earlier in their careers. Since there was no Film Room then I can't instantly call up a clip of the play and see it in action ... though there's a chance the game is online somewhere. I've been spoiled being able to photo-match or at least see videos for almost every ball I've had here recently ... I'll let the basics tell the story on this one this time.

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What's Buzzing: Big sales, big pulls, big questions, The National and more in this mid-week edition.

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What: 2022 Topps Update baseball cards
Arrives: Oct. 26
Box basics: One auto, one Relic and one manufactured Relic per HTA jumbo box; one auto or Relic per hobby box
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: The third wave of the Topps flagship brand will arrive with veterans in new uniforms, some new names and plenty of the energy and inclusions from the first two releases -- along with the return of All-Star Game and Home Run Derby highlights from this season.

Keep reading for more info.

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What's Buzzing: New pulls, tips for a beginning collector, Ozzie Albies, cardboard normalcy and an alleged Panini points problem?

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What's Buzzing: New breaks, WWE Revolution, The National, investment portfolio chatter, football cards that should exist and Pete Alonso ... Hall of Famer?

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What's Buzzing: NBA Finals and league opinions, showing off Joe Montana cards, The National and more.

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What's Buzzing: New MLB & NFL breaks, one for women's soccer collectors, The National, Blowout MegaMix and more.

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They weren't on the checklist, but they are in there.

The formal arrival of 2022 Topps Series 2 today unleashes something that collectors might not have expected to see when they previously saw the recently revealed checklist -- short-printed variations for notable newcomers Julio Rodriguez, Spencer Torkelson and Bobby Witt Jr.

And there may be more notables to come as the annual set's rarer finds start trickling into the open market and on eBay.

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What's Buzzing: New Star Wars, new F1 and MLB pulls, The National and more in this Friday edition.

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What: 2022 TRISTAR Hidden Treasures Diamond Stars autographed baseballs
Arrives: July 27
Box basics: One autographed baseball per box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: TRISTAR's autographed baseball chase brand arrives with a sneak peek of the release for this year's National Sports Collectors Convention -- just 100 cases -- in advance of a full release in September.

The biggest chase of them all this year? Keep reading for that ... and a gallery of what's in this one.

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What's Buzzing: NBA Finals chatter, some serious NFL threads worth a look, Project100 business, Formula 1 and more.

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