Dad grabbed a home run ball for his son, she wanted it back ... and now BlowoutCards.com needs it.

We'll offer $5,000 for that baseball right here, right now ... but there is a catch.

We want that ball signed and inscribed by her -- and only her, whoever she is -- "I'm sorry" so we can simply give it back to the kid. Our offer is official and the offer is firm -- here's our tweet noting it all and making the offer public.

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What's Buzzing: A.J. Lee returns to WWE, NFL Week 1 chatter, Junior Caminero, Star Wars Chrome, Sapphire UFC and more.

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1 -- NFL Week 1 is here

2 -- A.J. Lee returns to WWE after a decade away

3 -- Checking in on the Junior Caminero thread 

4 -- Results from almost a half-case of Star Wars Chrome blasters 

5 -- Inside a Sapphire UFC box

6 -- All your MLB chatter

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What: 2025 Panini Mosaic football cards
Arrives: Oct. 10
Box basics: Two autographs per 10-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Mosaic arrives for its sixth NFL campaign with not only the familiar looks and colorful, texture-filled finds from this brand but also with some new rookies to chase.

Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.

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What: 2024 Panini Eminence NFL cards
Arrives: Nov. 28, 2025
Box basics: Nine autographs and one other card per box
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Eminence once again takes the NFL to ultra-high-end levels as one of the "truly premier brands in collecting" with a "loaded selection of only the most-prized cards" in a box that's nearly all autographed cards showcasing legends of the past and notables of today.

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What: 2024-25 Panini Eminence NBA cards
Arrives: Sept. 30
Box basics: Nine on-card autographs and one memorabilia/other card per box
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Eminence returns for another high-end run on the NBA court jam-packed with rookies, legends and some big cardboard possible in every super-premium box.

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What's Buzzing: NFL action continues tonight, Patrick Mahomes prices, Origins NFL pulls and more.

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1 -- NFL Week 1 is here

2 -- 3,000 hits vs. 500 homers

3 -- Good question

4 -- Talking Patrick Mahomes

5 -- New Origins NFL pulls

6 -- All your MLB chatter

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What: 2025 Topps Finest WWE wrestling cards
Arrives: Sept. 26
Box basics Two autographed cards per hobby box (eight boxes per case) ... hobby-only
Checklist: Click here
Odds: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Topps returns to the WWE ring for just the fourth time this year with its fourth Chrome-stock release. We've got teaser images but nothing else yet now -- this one will update at a later time.

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What: 2025 Topps Chrome SpongeBob SquarePants trading cards
Arrives: Oct. 1
Box basics: Five autographs or sketch cards per case -- 12 packs per hobby box (12 boxes per case); seven packs of four cards per blaster box (40 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Odds: Click here
Order: Click here (when live)

What's buzz-worthy: Topps' mission to Chrome the world reaches the realm of the square yellow sponge living in a pineapple in the city of Bikini Bottom on the floor of the Pacific Ocean at some point soon.

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For years now, autographed books coming direct from the publishers -- or direct from the authors themselves -- have been an affordable way to collect ink from notable names in all realms of pop culture.

It's not a perfect system with stamped autos, fakes and autopens sometimes in the mix -- a problem for publishers to catch as they are not authenticators -- but thanks to dedicated collectors on the Blowout Cards Forum and elsewhere, those problems often get caught and fixed ... or at least become well-known enough to avoid if it's an issue that goes uncorrected.

Getting ink in-person is always best -- book tours still happen, of course -- but landing autographed editions from publishers, online sellers or celebs themselves via their websites or other appearances are common.

Our latest subject and autograph in this ongoing series? Dominating Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky.

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What: 2025 TRISTAR Hidden Treasures Autographed Full-size Helmets Season Edition
Arrives: Nov. 7
Box basics: One autographed full-size replica helmet per box (three boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: This staple within TRISTAR's Hidden Treasures lineup of autographed memorabilia releases arrives for another time this year with a new batch of full-size helmets that are inked by some of the game's greatest players today as well as top newcomers and past greats.

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What's Buzzing: The NFL season is here, non-sports chatter, new pulls and more in this Thursday edition.

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1 -- NFL Week 1 is here

2 -- Plenty of non-sports discussions

3 -- All your new pulls ...

4 -- Check out NFL finds here

5 -- Talking wrestling cards

6 -- More MLB chatter

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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: 2025 Topps Series 2 baseball cards (hanger)
First Buzz preview & checklist/odds: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (a few formats)

Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery of what was in 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 pack: 2025 Leaf Metal Pop Century 1/1 Pre-Production Proofs 
Where to buy: Click here (these are box-toppers in Pop Century boxes)

Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery for what was in this one.

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What's Buzzing: Talking NFL and MLB, Logofractors, eTopps, ripping Green Day GPK and more.

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1 -- An eTopps reaction ... and another thread

2 -- Still talking Logofractors

3 -- Living Set discussions

4 -- Opening some Green Day GPK

5 -- NFL Week 1 is almost here

6 -- More MLB chatter

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Those iconic belly badges are coming to cardboard.

A Kickstarter campaign to bring a new Care Bears card game to life was funded within the first hour after its recent launch and there are a number of options for collectors to partake in their celebration of the 1980s toys and now pop culture treasures/icons that have lived on since. It's a first-time card game for the Care Bears franchise.

Naftos and Zoop Games are behind the Care Bears: Unlock The Magic - The Deckbuilding Game with pledges topping $48,000 so far via more than 300 backers after having a goal of only $10,000 when it launched -- there are only a few days left to grab some premium pieces such as an uncut sheet or other pack formats for this exclusive release.

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What: 2025 Historic Autographs World War II trading cards
Arrives: Oct. 15
Box basics: Two relics/inserts per 13-pack hobby box (24 boxes per case); one cut auto and one dirt relic per 115-card vending box
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Historic Autographs once again looks back at World War II with a release packed with cards that examine the "villains, heroes, battles and events that still shape our world today."

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What: 2023-24 Topps Royalty basketball cards
Arrives: Sept. 25, 2025
Box basics: Four autographs and two Relics per eight-card box (four boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Odds: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: The 2023-24 basketball card season continues with a new high-end brand from Topps taking the court that "combines a clean high-end look and feel with the game’s top players."

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Take a minute and answer some hot-take questions and make some NFL picks -- and if you're at the top of the mountain when it's all over then you get some free cards.

It's that simple.

YourDozen.com is back with more free cardboard up for grabs to one lucky winner -- this time it's for Sunday NFL action as well as some Majority Rules questions. Those questions are simple -- whatever gets the most votes is the winning answer -- and we've sprinkled in those along with the traditional picks. The end result is still the same -- whomever has the most correct answers once the dust settles wins free cards.

You have until 1 p.m. on Sunday to get your picks in. (Do it now -- one of the tiebreakers is who entered first.) The prize remains a mystery item.

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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 gaets 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's Buzzing: College football reactions, NFL anticipation and a lot of MLB chatter in this Tuesday edition.

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1 -- NFL Week 1 is almost here

2 -- A Logofractor question

3 -- MLB: Hobby good vs. on-field good

4 -- College football reactions

5 -- A Luis Gonzalez question

6 -- Talkin' baseball

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Like many collectors, Buzz is a fan of grading ... so here's this month's grading diary.

TOP-GRADE VARIATION
The Card: C.J. Stroud 2021-22 Bowman University Chrome Prospects -- image variation
The Reason Graded: If you poke around in the archives for the Buzz Breaks of this release, you'll likely find a break where I missed this one and just simply called it a Refractor despite it being an image variation (all are Refractors on these). It should have been obvious based on the practice photo vs. game action, but I only spotted it well after the fact -- months, if not years, later -- when going through my old boxes. When I stopped to look, this card looked absolutely flawless and since it's somewhat rarer than the others it's also still a bit pricier for a standard card. (It's no monster but it's definitely better than a few types of Refractors.) Since it was so clean and the NFL season is upon us, I put this one into a bulk submission.
The Grade: CGC 10 (Pristine)

Reality Check: This card checked in at exactly where I thought it would. Fun find and a win -- and it wasn't even tucked away in a box penny sleeved. The divide between mine and the other copies graded is also an interesting one -- perhaps there's a common flaw on copies due to position on the sheet or from machinery? No idea ...

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

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What's Buzzing: Familiar names on unfamiliar teams, awaiting NFL Week 1, inside a Flawless NFL box found in Blowout MegaMix and plenty more in this Sunday edition.

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1 -- NFL Week 1 chatter is here

2 -- Right name, wrong NFL team

3 -- All your college football thoughts 

4 -- Happy little autographs 

5 -- Inside a Flawless NFL box from Blowout MegaMix

6 -- Talkin' baseball

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What's Buzzing: Collecting Pistol Pete, awaiting NFL Week 1, pondering Topps NBA, Micah Parsons and more.

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1 -- NFL Week 1 chatter is here

2 -- Even more football ...

3 -- Pondering Topps NBA

4 -- Talking Caitlin Clark cardboard

5 -- Collecting Pistol Pete

6 -- Reactions to the Micah Parsons trade

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What: 2025 Pulse Dual Signature Edition baseball cards
Arrives: Oct. 31
Box basics: Five encased on-card autographs and one encased dual-autograph card per box (10 boxes per case)
Checklist: See a partial player list in gallery
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Pulse revisits a release from last year and adds new dual-auto cards featuring some of this season's best possible combos together on the same card.

Keep reading for more info and a gallery of images.

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

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The Card: Keith Comstock 1989 ProCards Las Vegas Stars (CGC 10)
The Buzz On This: This classic prank photo appears on just a standard baseball card -- it's not an error/variation and it's not one that was pulled from production at any point because of its joke photo. It's one that's been out there all these years, isn't super rare and it has had its moments of fame when reporters found it again and again over the years, telling its story and helping pump up interest to where it's definitely a cult classic. I've graded this one more than a few times with good results -- I own top marks in slabs from PSA (a 10), BGS (two 9.5s) and CGC now. This was a recently graded copy of mine that I had planned to use in my monthly Making The Grade series here, but I realized just today that my lineup for MiLB stuff for this series this month was depleted ... so here we are. Only three PSA 10s exist, six BGS 9.5s and three CGC 10s ... none have checked in higher via any company with a decent volume graded between all of them.

Keep reading for more examples of some weird or fun baseball cards (and other stuff) you can find in all baseball these days -- not just in MiLB.

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What's Buzzing: Kyle Schwarber smacks four homers, the eTopps mess might be fixed soon, reactions to the Micah Parsons trade and even more in this Friday edition.

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1 -- Kyle Schwarber makes a little history 

2 -- The eTopps finale mess may be fixed

3 -- Reactions to the Micah Parsons trade

4 -- Showing off some August pick-ups

5 -- Opening nothing but USA Baseball cards

6 -- Even more NFL chatter is here

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