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First Buzz: 2016 Topps Heritage Minor League baseball cards
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What: 2016 Topps Heritage Minor League baseball cards
Arrives: Sept. 28
Box basics: One autograph and one Relic per 18-pack box (12 boxes per case)
What's buzz-worthy: The players and teams down on the farm take a trip back to 1967 with this release that includes a first for Topps' Minor League Baseball license -- on-card autographs.
Keep reading for more as well as a full gallery of images.
Glenn Hubbard's famed 1984 Fleer card inspires bobblehead promotion
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It's one of the weirdest baseball card ever made for a long-time player who's ultimately common-bin material, but it's the inspiration for a minor-league bobblehead giveaway coming this summer.
It's the 1984 Fleer Glenn Hubbard, No. 182 in the set, and it's been getting big-league attention among the Intentional Talk crowd and goofy pre-spring headlines.
First Buzz: 2016 Topps Pro Debut baseball cards
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What: 2016 Topps Pro Debut baseball cards
Arrives: May 25, 2016
Box basics: Two autographs and two Relics in every 24-pack hobby boxWhat's buzz-worthy: Future stars, eccentric promo night uniforms and Fragments of the Farm Relics are back in the newest chapter of the ongoing Minor League Baseball card saga called Pro Debut.
Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.
Minor League Baseball's career home run leader retires with more cardboard than you might expect
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He's a real-life Crash Davis and just like the big-screen journeyman the career of former big-leaguer Mike Hessman is over.
If you don't know Hessman, it's OK -- you're probably like most of us. You might have one of his baseball cards long forgotten in a box somewhere -- from back in the days when he was a rookie for the Atlanta Braves and a guy who finally got his shot after eight seasons in the minor leagues.
That was back in 2003, but he's still in the news now.
One Topps baseball card collector will become Durham Bull for a day
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The Durham Bulls' history books include Chipper Jones, Evan Longoria, David Price and even the likes of Ebby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh and Crash Davis, but there's another player you might know who could make their mark with the team this coming season.
You.
Thanks to Topps and the Make Your Pro Debut contest found in packs of the recently released 2016 Topps Heritage Minor League baseball cards, it could be you. No, really.
Dansby Swanson & Brendan Rodgers are 2015 Topps Heritage Minor League Mystery Redemptions
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They're new players and you may already have their new baseball cards but not even know it.
Topps announced on Thursday that top draft picks Dansby Swanson and Brendan Rodgers are the mystery redemptions found in packs of 2015 Topps Heritage Minor League, the set that takes today's players down on the farm back to 1966.