What: 2025 Pieces of the Past Inventors Edition trading cards
Arrives: April 8
Box basics: Four memorabilia cards per four-pack box (10 boxes per case)
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What's buzz-worthy: Pieces of the Past focuses on people who invented notable things -- one being basketball creator Dr. James Naismith as seen here -- in a release that meshes memorabilia cards with flashy and colorful modern cardboard, too.

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What: 2024 Pieces of the Past 1800s Kaleidoscope Edition
Arrives: Nov. 20
Box basics: Four hits per four-pack box (10 boxes per case)
Checklist: TBD
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What's buzz-worthy: This brand revisits the 1800s for a second time -- this one with plenty of foilboard flash -- via a collection packed with history and in some boxes redemptions for complete historical documents will be found.

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What: 2024 Keepsake In My Hand Edition trading cards
Arrives: Sept. 18
Box basics: One relic card per box (five boxes per case)
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What's buzz-worthy: Keepsake goes high-end with nothing but handwriting samples from worldwide notables from the past in a release that puts the focus on just a single card in every box.

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What: 2024 Pieces of the Past 1800s Edition
Arrives: May 9
Box basics: Four hits per four-pack box (10 boxes per case)
Checklist: TBD
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What's buzz-worthy: This brand is back with a stacked lineup of cut autos and other memorabilia cards for a variety of historical figures found in every box.

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What: 2023 Pieces of the Past Historical Edition
Arrives: Oct. 17
Box basics: Three hits per 10-pack box (10 boxes per case)
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What's buzz-worthy: This brand returns with a stacked lineup of cut autos and other memorabilia cards for a variety of historical figures found in every box.

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The packs: 2009 Topps American Heritage (25 blister retail pack lot)
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Packs per lot: 25
Cards per pack: 8
Cards per lot: 200
Base set completion: 92 of 125 (74 percent)
Duplicates: 57
Triplicates: 20
Quadruplicates: 6
Quintuplicates: 2
Sextuplicates: 1

Notables on base cards: Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Amelia Earhart, Davy Crockett, George Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, Chester Nimitz, Alexander Hamilton, Paul Revere, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Thomas Edison, Samuel Morse, Eli Whitney, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Barbara Rose Johns, Cesar Chavez, Gutzon Borglum, Frederic Remington, Norman Rockwell, Winslow Homer, Thurgood Marshall, Robert F. Kennedy, P.T. Barnum, Joe Namath, George & Ira Gershwin, Harry Houdini, Buster Keaton, Duke Ellington, Clara Bow, John D. Rockefeller, John Paul Getty, J.P. Morgan, William Randolph Hearst, John Deere, Frank Woolworth, Andrew Carnegie, Plymouth Rock, Constitution, George Washington, Louisiana Purchase, Emancipation Proclamation, Neil Armstrong

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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 Golden Age (hobby box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 24 (plus one box-topper pack)
Cards per pack: 6
Cards in this box: 148
Base set completion: 104 of 150 (69 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards: Tatum O'Neal, Bo Derek, Jackie Earle Haley, Grace Kelly, Bowie Kuhn, Seabiscuit, Abraham Lincoln, Knute Rockne, Lana Turner, Branch Rickey, Mario Andretti, Curly Neal, Pete Rose, Jim Rice, Elizabeth Montgomery, Joe Frazier, Henry Winkler, Donna Douglas, Stan Lee, Red Grange, Grantland Rice, Bigfoot, John Belushi, Darrell Waltrip, Evel Knievel, Mike Schmidt, Brooks Robinson, The Three Stooges, Yogi Berra, Jimmy Carter, Hack Wilson, Johnny Carson, Rocky Marciano, Sparky Anderson, Bob Denver, Bobby Hull, Mel Ott, Stan Musial, George Brett, Fred Biletnikoff, Tris Speaker, Dale Murphy

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