What: 2024-25 Topps Inception basketball
Arrives: TBD 2025
Box basics: Two autographs per TBD-card box (TBD boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Inception arrives for a union-approved run on basketball cards with what Topps promises will be "a bold mix of autographs, memorabilia and ultra-rare inserts celebrating both rising stars and league legends."

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What: 2025 Leaf Metal Authentics autograph cards
Arrives: Aug. 29
Box basics: One on-card autograph per box (10 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Metal is back with nothing but autographs and colorful, rarer parallels in play with a mix of sports and non-sports all in one -- and with multsigned cards (above) and inscriptions (below) also mixed in.

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

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What's Buzzing: NFL preseason chatter, found a grail at the National, cheap MLB favorites and more in this Friday edition.

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1 -- All your NFL chatter as the season nears

2 -- Found a grail at the National

3 -- Talking cheap MLB favorites 

4 -- Inside a solid Heritage hobby box

5 -- Mosaic NBA mega boxes seem to deliver

6 -- Still a good question 

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What: 2024 Topps Chrome boxing cards
Arrives: Sept. 5, 2025
Box basics: Two autos in every 12-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Odds: TBD
Order: Click here (when live)

What's buzz-worthy: Topps' return to the boxing ring has apparently been delayed but is finally slated for this month with "a mix of champions, contenders, rising stars and legendary names in Top Rank, Golden Boy Promotions and Matchroom" in play.

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The packs: 2024 Leaf Metal Signature Series Multi-sport 1/1 Pre-Production Proofs (two)
Where to buy: Click here for other Leaf Metal boxes

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What's Buzzing: Bo Bichette, breaking down an MLB blaster case, pulling Chrome, NFL chatter, Roman Anthony and more.

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1 -- Breaking down an MLB blaster case of ... 

2 -- Discussing Roman Anthony's payday ... 

3 -- Ripping into Chrome blasters

4 -- All your NFL chatter as the season nears

5 -- Checking in on the Bo Bichette thread

6 -- Good question 

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What: 2025 Leaf Vivid football cards
Arrives: Sept. 12
Box basics: Seven autos per nine-card hobby box (12 boxes per case) or 10 autos per 12-card jumbo box (eight per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: A third year of Vivid football includes base cards in the mix -- every one of them a 1/1 creation -- alongside the autographs that cover the gridiron and offer up a few surprised from beyond it, too.

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The pack: 2014 Topps Heritage Minor League baseball cards (hobby)
Where to buy: Will take some looking ... BlowoutCards.com for other Heritage MiLB years

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What's Buzzing: An eBay scam to watch out for, new pulls, a new Living Set artist debuts this week and more.

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1 -- One to watch out for ... 

2 -- "Too much Metal Universe Champions"

3 -- New MLB pulls are here 

4 -- Talking Tom Brady Rookie Cards

5 -- Living Set collectors react to a new artist

6 -- All your MLB chatter is here

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What: 2025 Topps Chrome WWE Cactus Jack wrestling cards
Arrives: Aug. 29
Box basics 20 packs per hobby box (12 boxes per case) -- four autos per case
Checklist: Click here
Odds: TBD
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Topps returns to the WWE ring for just the third time this year with this follow-up to its Wrestlemania-branded Cactus Jack teaser release from Wrestlemania now coming to collectors in a full-box form -- it's the third Chrome set of its new run with the license.

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What: 2024 Topps GPK Battle of the Bands - Green Day trading cards
Arrives: Aug. 27, 2025
Box basics: 10 five-card packs per box (20 boxes per case) -- two serial-numbered parallels per box
Checklist: Click here
Odds: TBD
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Topps turns its Garbage Pail Kids franchise to the punk rock realm teaming up with and taking on the iconic long-time band in a release that's been delayed but will include autographs and Relics.

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The packs: 2010 Topps Update baseball cards (two hobby)
Where to buy: Will take some looking ... BlowoutCards.com for other Retro Rips

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As Yogi Berra said, "It's déjà vu all over again."

Not everything that's game-used comes from on the field and this is the second entry in the Collecting Game-used series that is a simple kind of item like that and just like the last time we went there. It's one you can find these days quite easily and most often on the cheap -- and it's a little something that's a key piece in the game.  It's one straight from either of the dugouts or bullpens with the tape still on it. It's the lineup card and it's a piece of affordable memorabilia that low-key documents some of the details like a box score does but without any of those pesky stats -- just names, batting order numbers and positions.

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What's Buzzing: Kyle Schwarber enters the MVP picture, talking Topps Chrome, The National, new pulls a potential eBay scam angle and a good question.

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1 -- A good question 

2 -- Talking Topps Chrome

3 -- One more thing to watch out for on eBay

4 -- Checking in on the Kyle Schwarber thread

5 -- The National reactions are here

6 -- New MLB pulls are here

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Take a minute and make some predictions and sports picks -- and if you're at the top of the mountain when it's all over then you get some free cards.

It's always that simple.

YourDozen.com is back with more free cardboard up for grabs to one lucky winner -- this time it's for Sunday MLB 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 and predictions in. (Do it now -- one of the tiebreakers is who entered first.) The prize remains a mystery item.

>>> CLICK HERE TO ENTER <<< 

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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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? A member of The Sandlot cast, Patrick Renna.

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What: 2025 Topps Mint Marvel trading cards
Arrives: Aug. 13
Box basics: One encased card per 11-card box (10 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: A new release debuted at San Diego Comic-Con and it's one with just the basics for the iconic characters of the comics and movies empire.

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What's Buzzing: Reacting to The National, MLB chatter, WWE's reality show, new pulls and more.

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1 -- The National reactions are here

2 -- More card economy thoughts 

3 -- All your MLB chatter is here

4 -- Reactions to WWE: Unreal

5 -- Inside a Topps Chrome box

6 -- New MLB pulls are here

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Via @sportscardguys ... @blowoutcards we just hit $5,000 at The National, driving back to Wisconsin #BOOM #nsccshow

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The final day of this year’s National Sports Collectors Convention opens to the public soon in Chicago and Booth No. 573 -- the home of BlowoutCards.com -- should be one of your first stops at the show today.

But there's plenty more to be seen at this one ... and you will see a sampling of it and some cardboard finds right here as the show goes on today.

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Via @leaf_cards ...

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The show of all shows continues.

The second full day of this year’s National Sports Collectors Convention opens to the public soon in Chicago and Booth No. 573 -- the home of BlowoutCards.com -- should be one of your first stops at the show between today and Sunday.

But there's plenty more to be seen at this one ... and you will see a sampling of it and some cardboard finds right here as the show goes on today.

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

NINES ARE FINE
The Card: Aaron Judge 2017 Topps Archives -- Rookie Card
The Reason Graded: The unique 1960 Topps design always stands out to me. Why? Because one of my first clean vintage cards as a kid was a Gus Bell form the set, which I got since I knew he was a big-leaguer's dad. (Yay, trivia!) So that's perhaps one reason I held this Judge RC instead of letting it go. (Plus, I didn't rip as much of this brand ... so it was the only copy I pulled.) Judge's dominating 2025 season should make you stop and wonder about slabbing any RCs or early/rare stuff you have now ... just because. He and Shohei Ohtani are all-timers playing right in front of our faces now and are as safe as it gets when it comes to grab and slab or buy and hold -- even with plenty of their cards being graded.
The Grade: CGC 9

Reality Check: I knew this wouldn't be a 10 contender with the finicky stock here and the centering being a smidge off by my typical standards for a slab, but, like I said, it was my only copy. Most check in at this grade, so the nine makes sense, too, and the volume below it also shows this card isn't the easiest to grade.

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Via @nsccshow ... Pete Crow-Armstrong walk-off? No, it’s a National walk-in.

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The show of all shows is finally here.

The first full day of this year’s National Sports Collectors Convention opens to the public soon in Chicago and Booth No. 573 -- the home of BlowoutCards.com -- should be one of your first stops at the show between today and Sunday.

But there's plenty more to be seen at this one ... and you will see a sampling of it and some cardboard finds right here as the show goes on today.

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What's Buzzing: The National is here, eBay watchers, celebrating affordable cardboard, Andrew Vaughn, new pulls and ... does MLB have a gambling problem?

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1 -- The National is here

2 -- Fake watchers?

3 -- Does MLB have a gambling problem?

4 -- Celebrating affordable cardboard 

5 -- Andrew Vaughn might be worth the look

6 -- New MLB pulls are here

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The National is days away and here are just some of the basics like hours, pack promo details and other basics all in one spot -- at least all that's known at this time. (A different approach since a lot of info has been released later than normal this year.)

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