What: 2020 Topps Transcendent Collection baseball cards
Arrives: Dec. 16
Box basics: 54 autographs and more per box
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Transcendent is back once again with the familiar lineup of high-end inclusions that will set the stage for deluxe cardboard with a VIP event and more within its limited boxes.

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What: 2020 Leaf In The Game Used Sports cards
Arrives: Sept. 25
Box basics: Five memorabilia cards per box (10 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: This premium brand once again takes on the entire sports world with a mix of legendary possibilities from the legends of the past to recent superstars all in one hits-driven place.

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

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The box: 2020 Topps Series 2 baseball cards 
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com
First Buzz preview with checklist/SPs/more: Click here

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The box: 2020 Topps Big League baseball cards (blaster box)
First Buzz Preview & Checklist: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (a few formats)

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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: Big pulls, big questions, big collections and more on this (big?) Monday.

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What: 2020 Leaf Metal All-American Bowl football cards
Arrives: September
Box basics: Eight autos per hobby box (15 boxes per case) or 12 autos per jumbo box (eight boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: The two-option format returns for this one on the gridiron for another season with a new crop of prep All-Stars who will make their marks in the college ranks next and perhaps in the pros in a few years.

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What's Buzzing Today: T.J. Warren dominates, a huge Zion Williamson pull, 1990 Topps error cards, big breaks and more in this midnight-drop edition.

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Like many collectors, Buzz is a fan of grading and knows that there are many reasons that collectors choose to slab cards. Sometimes it's to enhance the appeal and protect them when selling. Other times it's to protect an investment for the long-term or to protect for sentimental reasons. Or, it might be just for fun or curiosity about a potential grade.

Here's this month's grading diary here on The Buzz ... and this time it's still a few more past pick-ups than usual as my pre-COVID grading submissions are delayed and still in graders' hands.

GOOD AS GOLD?
The Card: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. 2019 Topps Update Gold #US1 (/2,019) -- Rookie Card parallel
The Reason Graded: This one looked razor-sharp when I pulled it -- and that wasn't always the easiest thing with the corners for cards in this release. While I might want to slab a few key RCs in this one, I wouldn't unless I think that the corners could be decent enough to get a 9.5 or better. Why? Because a lot of people are grading stuff here so you can let them take the chance at stuff coming back surprisingly low. Meanwhile, because of those corner issues (tight wrappers or chippy stock) a high-grade card is seemingly just not easy in this one -- and Gold parallels can be problematic at times, too,  though they were cleaner here than other past years.
The Grade: BGS 9.5

Reality Check: This card checked in where I had hoped but I'm definitely not alone as nearly all of the cards graded checked in as 9.5s. While the grade is a win, the pop report is a bit of a bummer. Long-term that might not matter as the demand will be there if he lives up to the expectations.

Keep reading for more of this time's recent pick-ups and new slabs for Buzz.

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The box: 2020 Panini Prestige NFL cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (when available)

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What: 2020 Panini Select UEFA Euro soccer cards
Arrives: Aug. 19
Box basics: One auto and one mem card per 12-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: This one returns to the pitch in time for the UEFA European Championship with the national soccer teams that qualified for the tournament all getting a run here.

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The box: 2014 BenchWarmer Holiday trading cards 
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com -- see all BenchWarmer boxes here

Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery of everything in this box.

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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: Shane Bieber, Luis Robert, NFL pulls, Project 2020 previews and more in today's edition.

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He's not a rookie on the field (hit 2017 boxes for his RCs) and he's certainly not a rookie collector, but San Diego Padres pitcher Matt Strahm is a bit of a newcomer to break videos ... but his are a little different than others out there.

His breaks? Well, they're done at the ballpark -- and part of a YouTube series called Strahm's Stadium Pulls that launched on Thursday.

The break of 2020 Bowman Sapphire was up first and was teased on his Twitter account before we caught up with him for some basics about his background in collecting and more in this Hobby Q&A.

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This one is a new department here on The Buzz ... Fast Five -- a quick list under a simple topic that might offer a basic starting point for a themed collection. It's a basic list of five items that could be fun for a starting collector or a new way to add to a stash that might already seemingly include everything when it comes to cardboard. For some of you, it's probably common sense. For others of you out there, it's perhaps something to ponder.

This time? Five MLB rookies worth watching on cardboard

KYLE LEWIS -- OF, Seattle Mariners
If you look at the rookie leaders so far this year, it's this guy who's leading the way with 11 hits in six games two homers and five RBIs. He's also got 10 strikeouts -- a little scary there -- but he's still hitting .458. He's pushing 1,000 different baseball cards with more than 300 of those being certified autos starting with 2016 Bowman Draft. Some good news? About half of his autos are in 2020 releases so he's a big reason to rip into what was you do find and you'd be surprised how much some of his Rookie Card parallels -- no ink -- have been going for.

Keep reading for four more making up the list this time.

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The box: Women of Star Trek 50th Anniversary trading cards
Where to buy: Click here

Keep reading for a full breakdown of what was in this over-delivering box as well as a gallery.

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The box: 2019 Historic Autographs 1969 trading cards
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Keep reading to see a breakdown and gallery of what's 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 Today: Big pulls, new Prestige NFL, players who need to sign again and "this base-card revolution is starting to get out of hand."

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What: 2021 Topps Heritage baseball cards
Arrives: March 26
Box basics: One autograph or Relic per 24-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Are you ready for a new year of baseball cards? If so, it's time to preview a turn-back-the-clock edition that takes us all back to 1972.

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YourDozen.com is back and you have until Sunday afternoon to ponder the possibilities and take your shot at winning some free cardboard.

What are we doing this time? We're once again looking for the consensus answers to a few questions -- majority rules = the correct answer -- and then again predicting what things will look like in one Sunday MLB game on the tie-breaker.

This week's prize is a 2020 Topps MLB factory set.

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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: Game of Thrones The Complete Series trading cards
Arrives: Oct. 7
Box basics: Two autographed cards (one being an inscription or dual) per 24-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Pre-order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Every episode of this one gets a run here as part of a huge release that includes 73 episode cards, 100 Character cards -- all paralleled -- and plenty more in its boxes.

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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: An early look at Project 2020 stuff upcoming, new breaks from MLB and the NFL and more in today's edition.

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Group breaks have been a game-changer for the card industry for several years now and from time to time Buzz will jump into a BlowoutTV break of some type and break down the results of what he landed by picking up a team. There are near-daily breaks right here with Matt on Blowout TV during weekday working hours and even more from Houdini and others over on the forum in the evening.

Now, it's time for this post's break breakdown -- a spot in an MLB mixer that included everything you see above.

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Check out the prices of unopened boxes from just two years ago in the gallery -- it should surprise you.

Do know what today is?

It was supposed to be the opening day of the National Sports Collectors Convention in Atlantic City, N.J., but with the life-changing coronavirus pandemic still in play across the country the show of all shows has been tentatively rescheduled for December. (And, realistically, that's likely in doubt.)

What might you have found on the show floor? Well, you can find stuff you might not even know exists -- or can even imagine -- and in the case of this throwback gallery of views from just two years ago you might wish you had a time machine.

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Tomorrow would have marked the opening day of the National Sports Collectors Convention this year in Atlantic City, N.J., but that's not happening thanks to the coronavirus' life-changing grip on the country.

However, thanks to a group of podcasting collectors, there will be plenty of card chatter going on this weekend as HobbyPalooza! 2020 is here beginning on Friday at 2 p.m. Eastern time.

What is it? It will be a marathon of 35 hours full of card chatter from a number of different areas of the industry -- a virtual hangout.

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This one is a new department here on The Buzz ... Fast Five -- a quick list under a simple topic that might offer a basic starting point for a themed collection. It's a basic list of five items that could be fun for a starting collector or a new way to add to a stash that might already seemingly include everything when it comes to cardboard. For some of you, it's probably common sense. For others of you out there, it's perhaps something to ponder.

This time? Five cool cards simply because of their classic photos.

ALL THAT CASH THERE
The Card: Babe Ruth 2020 Topps Series 2 #562 SSP variation
Why does this Fast Five topic pop into my head on a slow Tuesday afternoon? Well, the record-setting Anthony Fauci Topps Now card over the weekend had one element of the things that can add to demand and value of a card -- a unique photo. (Fauci's card is perhaps more the moment than the actual photo frame, but here we go.) This Ruth card is one of many photo variants in basic Topps sets in recent years -- that's where you can find a lot of cool and unique images -- but this card is a fascinating one. Why? Think about all of the cash paid for all those signed baseballs today ... it should be a reminder that The Sultan of Swat's auto isn't necessarily rare -- there's just immense demand.
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Keep reading for four more making up the list this time.

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