What's 582 Montgomery Club?

It's Topps' new exclusive membership club where collectors who sign up get a crack at new cardboard inspired by the company's earlier days in Brooklyn.

"Members will receive exclusive benefits that are not available to the general public, including trading card products featuring recently discovered lost designs from our Brooklyn facility," reads a description for the program. "There will be new products sent to members six times per year, and the exclusive opportunity to purchase the highest-end trading card release ever offered on Topps.com."

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What's Buzzing Today: Battling bad collecting habits, two 1/1s in one box and plenty of breaks 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: 2018 Topps Triple Threads baseball cards
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 2
Cards per pack: 7
Cards in this box: 14
Base set completion: 
6 of 100 (6 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards – Honus Wagner, Babe Ruth, Masahiro Tanaka, Giancarlo Stanton, Gary Sanchez, Carlos Correa

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A holiday feel for holiday cardboard? That's exactly what Topps has coming to hobby shops this week.

Topps unveiled its plans for the 2018 Topps Holiday pack program -- a bonus for making a $10 purchase on the company's cardboard at participating hobby shops.

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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: 2017 Topps Holiday Box baseball cards
Where to buy: Click here

Packs per box: 10
Cards per pack: 10
Cards in this box: 98
Base set completion: 
92 of 200 (46 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Jose Altuve, Justin Verlander, Ichiro Suzuki, Stephen Strasburg, Anthony Rizzo, Kris Bryant, Paul Goldschmidt, Yu Dervish, Joe Mauer, Clayton Kershaw, Giancarlo Stanton, Trea Turner

Rookie Cards (24) – Aaron Judge, Alex Bregman, Dansby Swanson, Andrew Benintendi, Yoan Moncada, Ian Happ, Derek Fisher, Trey Mancini, Jake Thompson, Jordan Montgomery, Jose DeLeon, Yulieski Gurriel, Luke Weaver, Alex Reyes, Carson Fulmer, Tyler Glasnow, Bradley Zimmer, German Marquez, Josh Bell, Amir Garrett, Antonio Senzatela, Tyler Austin, Guillermo Heredia, Dinelson Lamet

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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: Pondering the hobby greatness of Bo Jackson and breaks from around the collecting world.

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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: Some big pulls and a look back at an old thread in today's edition.

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What: 2019 Bowman baseball cards
Arrives: April 17
Box basics: Three autographs per 12-pack jumbo box (eight boxes per case); One autograph per 24-pack hobby box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Bowman is back with another modern-looking design, some of the biggest prospects in the pipeline and some new touches that should keep prospectors busy as they chase the rainbow of Refractors and more that will be found in this one that also celebrates the 30th anniversary of Bowman's 1989 revival.

Keep reading for more info as well as 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: Collecting extremes -- "The hit of my life" vs. "cardboard boredom" -- pondering 2019 MLB production, rare short-prints & breaks to start the 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 Today: Nothing but MLB chatter and NFL pulls and cards 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: Trade chatter, NFL MVP candidates, Juan Soto sightings and more 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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ONE SUPER PULL
The Item: Ronald Acuña Jr. 2018 Topps Chrome Superfractor autograph
The Price: $3,050 after 19 bids (more than five days remaining)
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This is one of the biggest cards possible in this year's Rookie Card parallel lineup without the name Ohtani attached -- and even with that this should be one of the bigs -- and this one is on the auction block as an auction via an eBay seller with a heavy buyer list and a huge presence. How big will this card go? We'll find out in a few days -- and it was big enough my plans to not have an eBay Buzz this week hit the bench in favor of this Friday-night edition.
Similar Pieces: Other Ronald Acuña Jr. autos on eBay
The BlowoutCards.com Hunt: Click here for 2018 MLB boxes

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 big pulls and breaks recaps are here.

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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: 2018 Topps Chrome Update baseball cards (mega box)
Where to buy: Initially only at Target (click here for past mega boxes)

Packs per box: 7
Cards per pack: 4
Cards in this box: 28
Base set completion: 
25 of 100 (25 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards – Aaron Judge, Javier Baez, Ian Kinsler, Josh Hader, Mitch Haniger, Jose Altuve, Charlie Blackmon, Jose Bautista, J.D. Martinez, Chris Sale, Christian Yelich, Willson Contreras, Corey Kluber

Rookie Cards (12) – Walker Buehler, Gleyber Torres, Victor Robles, Chris Stratton, Michael Soroka (two different), Nick Kingham, Clint Frazier, Daniel Mengden, Willy Adames, Fernando Romero, Lourdes Gurriel Jr.

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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 in today's edition, including two Flawless Logoman cards.

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Professional Sports Authenticator has opened its doors in Japan.

The company revealed on Tuesday that it opened an office in Tokyo this month to collect submissions from collectors for slabbing, grading and authentication.

PSA announced that its overseas satellite office will be led by Tony Aram, a "bilingual financial expert and collector who has lived in Tokyo for more than 40 years."

“Because the practice of authenticating and grading cards is just now gaining popularity in Japan, there is an enormous opportunity to attract new consumers and future hobbyists to the benefits of trading card grading,” he said.

Part of the move is due to the country's love of Major League Baseball and former Nippon Professional Baseball stars such as Shohei Ohtani and Ichiro Suzuki who have continued to captivate fans -- but also because of demand for grading of n0n-sports, gaming and NPB cardboard. The move also will help the language and time-zone differences that can be barriers, the company said.

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The Topps All-Star Rookie Cup cards are coming sooner than in the past -- they're coming Now.

Well, actually this week via Topps Now as the crop of 12 top newcomers on the 2018 Topps All-Star Rookie Team was revealed minutes ago on MLB Network.

Each of the honored players also will appear on cards with their trophies in 2019 Topps Series 1, which is set to arrive on Jan. 30.

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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 couple of big-picture discussions about cards, MLB and NFL breaks and other interesting pulls.

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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: 2018 Topps Update baseball cards (hobby box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (several formats)
Packs per box: 36
Cards per pack: 10
Cards in this box: 360
Base set completion: 
315 of 300 (95 percent)
Duplicates: 4

Base cards of note – Aaron Judge, Jose Altuve, Max Muncy, Manny Machado, Alex Bregman, Ichiro Suzuki, Max Scherzer, Mookie Betts, Mike Trout, Bryce Harper, J.D. Martinez, Justin Verlander, Giancarlo Stanton

Rookie Cards (75) – Notables include Ozzie Albies, Ronald Acuña Jr., Juan Soto, Shohei Ohtani, Gleyber Torres, David Bote, Tyler O'Neill, Shane Bieber, Scott Kingery, Dylan Cozens, Rhys Hoskins

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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 showing off a PSA submission to start a new 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 Today: Some interesting MLB and NFL discussions and breaks for those sports 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: Nothing but big pulls and breaks in today's edition -- check 'em out here.

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Fans at the Arizona Fall League Fall Stars Game will get their hands on some baseball cards created for the All-Star event.

Topps has created a 10-card set for the Saturday showcase that starts at 8 p.m. Eastern and will air live on MLB Network. It will be distributed in five-card packs to fans in attendance.

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If you hadn't noticed, there are a number of boxes with discounted prices right now right here as BlowoutCards.com is in the midst its Black November sales just two days into the new month.

Wave 2 is here and many of the discounts were dramatic enough that Buzz had to sit down and ponder the possibilities in many of the boxes and cases -- and here are five boxes/cases that caught this collector’s eye.

2007 Donruss Elite Extra Edition baseball hobby box
Sure, this one's listed as a baseball set with that World Series-dominating guy, David Price, on the box from back when he was fresh off the Vanderbilt field, but this one has a lot of other surprises that makes it one to definitely consider as it celebrates the college game with a number of other inclusions that were helping shape a different card landscape back then that we see a little more familiarly today in a number of directions. Notable ink found here includes Price, Madison Bumgarner, Josh Donaldson, Corey Kluber, Jake Arrieta, Dellin Betances, Jerry Tarkanian, Don Haskins, Rick Majerus, Rollie Massimino, Ara Parseghian, Dale Brown, Dean Smith, Gene Keady, Jim Boeheim, Steve Spurrier, Tom Osborne, Vince Dooley, Jennie Finch, Rebecca Lobo, Brandi Chastain, Bill Walton, Dominique Wilkins, Summer Sanders and a number of other college stars and coaches in a few sports who don't have a lot of cardboard. You get four hits per box here and there are a number of other inserts that can also pack some punch if you land the right names. It's worth a look at its reduced price.

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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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ABOUT THOSE UNIFORM ADS ... 
The Item: Giannis Antetokounmpo 2017-18 Panini Flawless Gold auto patch (/10)
The Price: $1,000 Buy-It-Now (or best offer)
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This card is the perfect example where the recently added company logos on NBA uniforms has some added value -- as memorabilia cards -- beyond those for the advertising companies and league coffers. This card combines the world of Harley-Davidson motorcycles with one of the league's young and dominating stars. Sure, cards like this will be more common as high-end brands such as the new Flawless arrive with more, but this one still feels underpriced to me compared to some of the cardboard out there with new-hog price tags attached.
Similar Pieces: Other 2017-18 Panini Flawless autos on eBay
The BlowoutCards.com Hunt: Click here for 2017-18 Panini Flawless boxes/cases

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