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What's Buzzing Today: Super Bowl, Super Bowl, Super Bowl ... NFL breaks and more on this gameday.

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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 Today: A long-running MLB debate, pre-Super Bowl NFL chatter, Evan Longoria collections and more in today's edition.

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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 Today: Big deals, big pulls, big grades and more as we count the hours until the Super Bowl.

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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 ...

The Card: 2017 Donruss Rookie Gridiron Kings #2 Patrick Mahomes II
The Reason Graded: His break-out campaign started off so strong I had to revisit my past pulls from Donruss last year -- I busted a ton -- and I submitted a trio of his cards. You saw one last month, you see this one here and you'll see another in March. (Call that a spoiler.) This insert isn't the most-striking of cards but it looked very clean in my pre-examining of cards so it made the cut.
The Grade: BGS 9.5

Reality Check: None have graded higher but this one is not alone on the pop report. That surprises me a bit as grading seems to be all about standard RCs, rare numbered parallels and the ol' big mojo hits, but it seems that a season like the one he had could be prompting anything from his first year on cardboard to get another look. (Ironically you can still grab boxes of this one and others relatively cheap, too. To me that all spells fun ... and wax will dry up over time.)

Keep reading for the rest of this month's new grades and additions.

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What's Buzzing Today: Every one of these football boxes will be busted by one collector -- and it's not even all of them -- on Super Bowl Sunday.

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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 Today: The arrival of 2019 Topps, Bryce Harper's next stop, cardboard and the polar vortex and plenty more.

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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: 2019 Topps Series 1 baseball cards 
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com
Packs per box: 24 (plus one 1984 Chrome pack)
Cards per pack: 14 (four in Chrome)
Cards in this box: 336
Base set completion: 
305 of 350 (87 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards of note – Mookie Betts, Brandon Nimmo, Mike Trout, Aaron Judge, Kris Bryant, Clayton Kershaw, Juan Soto, Shohei Ohtani, Gleyber Torres, Miguel Andujar, Harrison Bader, Lourdes Gurriel Jr., Dereck Rodriguez, Shane Bieber, Jack Flaherty, Christian Yelich, Jose Ramirez, Dansby Swanson, Trea Turner, Justin Verlander, Max Scherzer, Joey Votto, Miguel Cabrera, Buster Posey, Josh Donaldson, Corey Seager, J.D. Martinez, Carlos Correa, Kyle Schwarber

Rookie Cards (30) – Daniel Poncedeleon, Kyle Tucker, Kolby Allard, Kohl Stewart, Danny Jansen, Michael Kopech, Justus Sheffield, Adolis Garcia, Pablo Lopez, Francisco Arcia, Enel De Los Santos, Nick Burdi, Garrett Hampson, Heath Fillmyer, Ryan Borucki, Jonathan Loaisiga, Cedric Mullins, Ryan O'Hearn, Dennis Santana, Brad Keller, Ranger Suarez, Luis Urias, Corbin Burnes, Ray Black, Jacob Nix, Jake Bauers, Duane Underwood Jr., Ramon Laureano, Jeff McNeil, Chance Adams

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What's Buzzing Today: Big pulls from around the collecting world, new interest in Billy Ripken's bat knob and combatting bitterness in the hobby today.

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Have you seen the latest cool or interesting items on eBay? If not, you just might see some of those here every week as we're launching a weekly version of our eBay Buzz pieces that pop up from time to time. We’ll spotlight some items that have a story or just wow us with how much interest it might have — and we’re not just talking baseball cards, either.

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HIGHLY RATED ROOKIE
The Item: Baker Mayfield 2018 Donruss Optic Gold Rated Rookie Autograph (/10) (BGS 9.5/10)
The Price: $2,799.99 Buy-It-Now (or best offer)
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: The No. 1 pick in last year's NFL Draft delivered a record-setting season for a rookie with 27 passing touchdowns for the Cleveland Browns ... now imagine if he had played every game this season. He was clearly a spark for a team that went winless in 2017 and tied its best record posted since 2007. There are a few young stars on this team that could have hobby potential down the line and he's at the top of the list. It should be interesting to see what the Browns can add in the draft, too.  This card is an elite pull -- good luck landing one from a pack -- and there will inevitably be growing demand for his rookie-year stuff if he builds upon this almost Rookie of the Year campaign. (Saquon Barkley probably gets it in my mind.) Over time, I think Mayfield has more cardboard potential with team success.
Similar Pieces: Baker Mayfield autos on eBay
The BlowoutCards.com Hunt: Click here for NFL boxes

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Making it to The Show takes a little bit of luck, a lot of talent, a lot of work and often help from others such as coaches and family members.

Photographer Bill Stephan with his son's dog, Wilson.

While New York Yankees prospect Trevor Stephan hasn't gotten there just yet, he does have a taste of big-league cardboard and he had some family help there, too. How? His dad, Bill, was the photographer for several of his baseball cards made so far showing him as a member of the Yankees organization.

"I knew there was a possibility that Topps would use one of my photographs as they contacted me through my son’s agent before spring training [last year]," said the 55-year-old manufacturing executive and father of two. "For a baseball dad, it’s a pretty cool thing to have one of your photographs used as a baseball card image. I wasn’t concerned about being paid."

The 23-year-old pitcher appears on more than 150 different cards in all from three 2017 prospect releases and five products from last year -- and his dad's photos can be found on cards in at least three of them, 2018 Bowman Chrome, 2018 Bowman Draft and 2018 Bowman Platinum along with all of their various parallel versions.

Those baseball cards show the 6-foot-5 225 right-hander and former University of Arkansas standout as a member of the Staten Island Yankees but were edited to reflect the uniform of the 27-time World Series champions. In two seasons of minor-league ball, the former third-round pick is 7-10 with a 3.18 ERA and 184 strikeouts in 158-plus innings. Early last season, Baseball America noted his quick path to Double-A ball and noted he "could be closer than expected to The Bronx."

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What's Buzzing Today: Nothing but big breaks and cool pulls to start things off today.

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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 Today: Nothing but breaks in today's edition -- including some 2019 Topps Series 1.

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What: 2019 Topps Finest baseball cards
Arrives: June 5
Box basics: One auto per six-pack mini box with two minis per master (eight masters per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Finest returns for another season on the diamond with an auto in every mini box and plenty of stars and inserts -- a lineup that will include a tribute to new Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera for starters.

Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.

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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 Today: Prospect lists, "dude scores 61" chatter (or lack thereof), cardboard snowstorms, Super Bowl predictions and more.

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What: 2019 Topps Museum Collection baseball cards
Arrives: June 19
Box basics: One autograph, one autographed Relic, one quad Relic and one prime Relic per four-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Museum Collection hits the diamond once again with some new looks and new players in the mix but the same hit-per-pack formula.

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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 Today: Nothing but baseball chatter and big pulls as Buzz is ready for a new baseball card season.

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There are eight guys with realistic chances at being voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame tonight (announcement is set for 6 p.m. EST on MLB Network) and there's one good thing to be had here for potential new baseball card collectors or veterans still needing them.

Most of them have Rookie Cards can be easily landed thanks to the timeframe when they were made -- and they have plenty of cards to chase in boxes made since.

The first lock of the bunch is former New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera, MLB's career saves leader (652), who is a contender for the highest Hall of Fame voting percentage ever. That mark is 99.6 percent of ballots and is held by Ken Griffey Jr. back in 2016. Unlike Griffey -- and others you'll see here -- Rivera has just one Rookie Card. It can be found in 1992 Bowman, a set that added gloss and white stock into the brand's repertoire along with a deeper checklist (and guys in street clothes). Rivera has more than 5,500 different cards but only one gets the RC label -- that's a rarity in this day and age that helps bolster its value. (If you want one, buy it graded. They have been counterfeited.) >> Check out his autographed cards (and more) on eBay

Who else is out there and potentially headed to Cooperstown?

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What's Buzzing Today: Pondering Hall of Fame card potential and checking in on Vladdy Jr., NBA and NFL discussions.

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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 Today: Big pulls and one discussion lead the way on this Super Bowl-deciding day.

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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 Today: Nothing but break highlights and a few 1/1 pulls in today's edition.

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Have you seen the latest cool or interesting items on eBay? If not, you just might see some of those here every week as we're launching a weekly version of our eBay Buzz pieces that pop up from time to time. We’ll spotlight some items that have a story or just wow us with how much interest it might have — and we’re not just talking baseball cards, either.

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FINALE OR LAUNCHING PAD?
The Item: Patrick Mahomes II 2017 Panini Absolute Football Rookie Premiere Triple Materials (/149)
The Price: $450 Buy-It-Now (or best offer)
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This weekend is either the finale to a huge season or a launching pad further into the stratosphere as Patrick Mahomes' Kansas City Chiefs take on Tom Brady and the New England Patriots with the winner headed to the Super Bowl. It's the new big name against the guy who's basically the greatest of all time -- or at worst the greatest of his time -- and these are players commanding nothing but big bucks on cardboard. This card? It's on the lower side of the Buy-It-Now options out there -- see the link below for Crazy Town pricing on eBay
Similar Pieces: Patrick Mahomes autos on eBay
The BlowoutCards.com Hunt: Click here for 2017 NFL boxes (he's in many of them)

Keep reading for four more interesting items in this week's roundup ...

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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 Today: Nothing but highlights from breaks in today's edition.

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We're exactly two weeks away from the arrival of the hobby's longest-running and most heavily collected release, the Topps flagship set, and we've got the biggest piece of info that's necessary for collectors so far.

It's the checklist for 2019 Topps Series 1.

What's in store for this one? Keep reading.

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What's Buzzing Today: Nothing but big pulls in today's edition -- including this gem from a single bargain-bin pack.

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What: 2018 Topps MLB Sticker Collection
Arrives: Feb. 28
Box basics: 50 four-sticker packs per box (16 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: The stickers are back for a new baseball season with a new assortment of stars and some new inclusions from the game -- but also with a new big collectable cardboard twist.

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