What: 2023 Topps Definitive Collection baseball cards
Arrives: Nov. 22
Box basics: Six autos and two Relics per box (three boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here (when live)

What's buzz-worthy: Definitive returns for a seventh time for baseball fans with plenty of the high-end inclusions that collectors expect in this one.

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What: 2023 Topps Inception baseball cards
Arrives: Dec. 6
Box basics: One autograph or one autographed patch Relic per seven-card box (16 boxes per case)
Checklist: TBD
Order: Click here (when live)

What's buzz-worthy: Topps Inception will return for another colorful run this year with plenty of energy, new rookies and more all in one spot.

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What: 2022 Keepsake Multi-sport Edition cards
Arrives: Dec. 22, 2023
Box basics: One encased Keepsake card per illuminated display box (five boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Super Break's Keepsake brand goes high-end for fans of all sports in this one with a mix of legendary names from the past, present and future (college stars on NIL deals) all in play.

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If you hadn't noticed, there are a number of boxes with discounted prices right now right here as the first wave of Blowout Cards' Black November sales is here

Many of the discounts were dramatic enough that Buzz once again had to ponder the possibilities in many of the boxes and cases -- and here are five that caught this collector’s eye ... and there's far more that just might suit your tastes in the big sale.

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SCHOOL COLORS & MORE
2022 Bowman's Best University Football Hobby
It might be the season talking, but this box jumped out at me among the sales ranks as it's relatively new, includes a bunch of stars playing on Saturdays (thanks to NIL deals they're in here) and some notables who are now playing on Sundays right now, too. There are two Chrome autos per box here as well as quite a bit of insert and parallel potential, too, without breaking the bank. Sure, with a deeper checklist and names who won't be pros until later, there will be some leaner boxes than others -- like anything, really -- but with full logos, NIL guys, Chrome and parallels this one might have a shelf life a little longer than others in terms of popular players emerging on the fields and on collectors' minds. Among autos here? The last two Heisman Trophy winners, Bryce Young and Caleb Williams, along with Jordan Addison, Anthony Richardson, Jahmyr Gibbs, Heisman favorite J.J. McCarthy, Bo Nix, Jordan Addison, C.J. Stroud and more ... and there are multi-player autos to find, too.

Keep reading for a few more boxes you should consider (and are likely to end up in Buzz's cart).

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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: 2023 Topps Allen & Ginter X baseball cards
Checklist: N/A (base parallels regular A&G but not everything is in here)
Odds: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (when available)

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What: 2023 Topps 206 High Series baseball cards
Arrives: Oct. 26 via Topps.com
Box basics: Autographs in every third box ... four 10-card packs per box
Checklist: Click here ... Click here for High Series signers list

What's buzz-worthy: Topps revisits T206 tobacco cards for a second time this year with the same new format that was used for the previous series of this one.

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What: 2023 Topps Finest Flashbacks baseball cards
Arrives: Today
Box basics: Autographs found in every sixth 20-pack box
Odds: Click here
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here (when available)

What's buzz-worthy: This one arrives once again with a throwback look -- this time, a revisiting of the 1996 Topps Finest release -- but with today's players with ink and more to be found for a number of veterans and newcomers, too.

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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: Football cards and QBs, MLB chatter and polls, NBA game-used, TacoFractors and NFL Week 6.

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What: 2022 Topps Chrome Update baseball cards
Arrives: Nov. 15
Box basics: One auto per 24-pack hobby box (six per case); Three autos per 12-pack jumbo box (eight per case)
Checklist: TBD
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Chrome Update gets a bit of a revamp that guarantees autographs in now two box formats, includes some new inserts only found here and it's also the home of the one-of-a-kind MLB Debut game-worn patch cards introduced this season.

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What: 2023 Historic Autographs Ink'd Threads Fall Edition Signed Jerseys
Arrives: Mid-November
Box basics: One autographed custom jersey per box (16 per case) -- plus two Historic Autographs packs per box
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Historic Autographs turns its attention to memorabilia for a second time this year with this multi-sport release that will include autographs from around the sports world and beyond -- and Hall of Famers are once again found in every other box.

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What: 2023 Topps The Joy of Baseball Bob Ross X MLB
Arrives: Oct. 5 via Topps.com
Box basics: Two autographs and one paintbrush pen per eight-pack Collector's Edition box; TBD on Happy Little Boxes
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Do "happy little trees" make for happy little baseball cards and, in turn, happy little collectors? The world will find out soon as this meshing of MLB cardboard with the famed late artist arrives this week.

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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: Panini vs. WWE, awaiting NFL Week 3, J-Rod, Acuña and plenty more in today's edition.

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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 Heritage High Number baseball cards (hobby)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com
First Buzz preview & checklist: Click here

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What: 2022 Super Glow Inaugural Update Edition
Arrives: Oct. 9, 2023
Box basics: Two autographs per six-pack box (10 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Super Break revisits its original release for a late update set with a ton of big names among possible finds from all around the sports world in both the pro and college ranks.

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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: Julio Rodriguez is still hot, NFL chatter, a winning NBA repack, reeled in a big Trout and continuing talk about big industry headlines.

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Buzz buys and busts a lot of boxes right here for Buzz Breaks, but one of my goals is to rip a little less and talk more about cardboard that I -- and you -- might like. One way to do that? Simple show and tell -- present a few pick-ups and say why they captured my attention.

So, with all that said, here are a few Buzz Buys ...

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IT'S FOOTBALL SEASON ... 
The Item: Paul "Bear" Bryant cut autograph (BAS authenticated)
The Price: Less than a lot of new hobby boxes.
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This pricier (for me) pick-up actually came in the last week of last year but I decided to hold onto posting it here until it's the right time -- and since football season is upon us, well, that means now's the time. In the fall of 2019, I bought a starter auto of this legendary Alabama Crimson Tide coach who before Nick Saban was easily the greatest in school history (right now, it's perhaps a toss-up) -- that one was an inscribed nickname-only auto -- for a lot less as it was a cut from a paperback book. This one? It's signed on thick, red paper (almost a light cardboard stock) and I know exactly where it came from -- a 1975 copy of his autobiography, Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant. I have a clean-but-ratty copy of that book somewhere in my stash from an antiques store find 20-some years ago, but when this popped up from a West Coast mega-dealer of vintage (and selected modern-player) autographed stuff and plenty more I bit. I actually prefer the cut auto feel here in its case vs. the full book as it can be viewed when you find it vs. tucked behind a cover. A lot of Bryant autographs are found these days -- 40 years after his death -- are on signed copies of this book or on a style of autographed photo or two that is nearly always found inscribed and dated to fans or boosters from back in the day. While a photo (preferably slabbed) would be nice, this is a better, simpler item. Authenticated photos can cost less but look iffier depending on condition. I like this one -- and it's card-like feel -- and, heck, I might even do more. They are out there and findable.
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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 (vending)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com
First Buzz preview with checklist: Click here

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What: 2023 Leaf Baseball Memorabilia Hybrid
Arrives: June 30
Box basics: One signed custom jersey and one 2021 Leaf baseball box per box (six boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: This one meshes autographed memorabilia with boxes that are packed with autographed cards all in one spot.

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What: 2023 Topps Allen & Ginter baseball cards
Arrives: July 28
Box basics: Three hits in every 24-pack hobby box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Allen & Ginter drops once again with all the eccentricities, plenty of baseball players and a new retro design based on some of the 1880s tobacco card designs that helped bring some of the first baseball cards to the masses.

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What: 2023 Topps 206 Low Series baseball cards
Arrives: Sold out via Topps.com
Box basics: Autographs in every third box ... four 10-card packs per box
Checklist: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Topps revisits T206 tobacco cards for a fourth time but this time with a different release approach that apparently has come and gone on Topps.com.

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What: TruCreator Creator Series 1 Update Jumbo trading cards
Arrives: July 26
Box basics: One 1/1 card per 24-pack box (10 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: TruCreator's newest release once again meshes selected athletes with creators with a 1/1 of some sort -- base or insert parallel, memorabilia or autograph -- in every box and then with other autographs dropping as extras.

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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 Stadium Club baseball cards (blaster)
First Buzz preview & checklist: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)

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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: 2023 Topps Heritage baseball cards (hanger)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)
First Buzz preview & checklist: Click here

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What: 2023 Super Glow Super 7s sports cards
Arrives: July 17
Box basics: One autographed card per seven-card box (seven boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Super Glow once again turns to a one-auto-per-box approach with a new multi-sport release packed with star power and card designs and stocks familiar to other releases but with some new twists here, too, like the dual-autos seen above.

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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 ...

TICKET TO HISTORY ...
The Ticket: Woodstock (Aug.15-17, 1969) -- three-day ticket ($24)
The Reason Bought: There are more than a dozen different styles of tickets for this historic event in music and pop culture history and none of them are all that rare -- and that makes for an interesting grading market. High-grade tickets can be priced like they're non-existent yet about 60 percent of the full tickets that are slabbed check in at a PSA 9 or 10 and raw tickets (assuming they are real ... but there's a chance they might not be) can be found on the cheap under $100. I knew quite awhile back that I wanted one in a slab and I was patient with my window shopping until I spotted this one. I wanted a three-day style but there are single-day tickets that are very traditional-looking and I finally spotted this one at a good price (just under $100) vs. the same thing with asking prices for 9s and 10s that are as high as $1,000. Actual sales for higher grades are typically anywhere from $200 to $700 on eBay with a lot of irregularity -- and BINs just under the $200 mark quite often. In short, they're findable.
The Grade: PSA 8

Reality Check: More than 3,750 different full tickets have been slabbed for Woodstock and this version -- one of three types in the PSA pop report for a three-day ticket -- is the easiest and the only one with more than 1,000 copies slabbed. In fact, the number of 10s for this style is higher than all but two of the entire slab totals for other styles. I didn't sweat the grade as the flaws on this one seem minor -- I'm imagining some minor black ink "snow" on there perhaps dropped it a grade but generally everything here is clean to the eye with no obvious flaws. That's good enough for me as beginner or one-time dabbler. Modern tickets for big artists can be quite pricey when slabbed as availability is often an issue, but I'm assuming a bulk "find" of these happened at some point back in the day given the high-profile event and all that went into it.

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

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