One of baseball's most-dominant pitchers of the 2000s has died.

Roy Halladay, a two-time Cy Young award-winner in a 16-season career with the Toronto Blue Jays and the Philadelphia Phillies, died Tuesday afternoon when a plane he was flying crashed into the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida. He was 40 years old.

The right-hander from Arvada, Colo., was the 17th pick in the 1995 MLB Draft by Toronto and made his big-league debut three years later. He went 203-105 with a 3.38 ERA and 2,117 strikeouts in his career.

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The Mega Box is back once again -- but only initially at Target stores.

Topps finally unleashed the checklist for its annual retail-only Chromed version of Topps Update on Tuesday and it's yet again another release that offers Chrome fans one last set to collect but also a shot at some big-name Rookie Cards, Superfractors and autographs.

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With apologies to your World Series champion Houston Astros, we all know the baseball players who owned the hobby in 2017 -- Aaron Judge, Aaron Judge and Aaron Judge.

Oh and that Cody Bellinger guy, too.

The finalists for the Baseball Writers' Association of America awards are in and you'll find Judge, Bellinger and several others who made things happen on the field this year among the potential award-winners. We'll have to wait until next week for the start of the reveals but you can cast your votes right here, right now.

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Keep reading to vote for the rest of the categories.

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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: Crazy pulls from hobby boxes and retail repacks to start the 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: Big pulls and big waits for the next high-end releases to arrive.

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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 big collecting question and some big pulls for the weekend.

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If you hadn't noticed, there are a number of boxes with discounted prices right now over on the mothership as BlowoutCards.com is in the midst its Black November sales now.

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.

2017 Topps Update Jumbo boxes and cases
This relatively new release is simply a fun one that's stacked with Rookie Cards and moments from the All-Star Game and Home Run Derby. This collector has ripped hanger boxes, blaster boxes and standard Hobby boxes and many of them have delivered good volume on those guys named Bellinger, Judge and even on the variations. (They don't have to be rare to be fun.) I haven't studied the jumbo breaks closely, but one auto and two other hits at this price makes for a fun rip -- and if you get lucky you could do pretty well. While this might be a brand that seems somewhat plentiful now, once wax dries up there will be enough key players here to make it of interest later -- and basic Topps flagship RCs seem to be growing in popularity, too.

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What: 2018 Onyx Baseball Icons Collection Hall of Fame signed baseballs
Arrives: Dec. 12
Box basics: One autographed baseball per box and one vintage graded card per case (12 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Only 25 sealed cases will be made for this one -- half as much as last year -- but there will still be one buyback card per case and a Hall of Famer in every box.

Keep reading for more info, including a checklist.

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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 today ... and they're all a bit mysterious.

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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 Heritage High Number baseball cards (blaster Hot Box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 8
Cards per pack: 9
Cards in this box: 72
Base set completion: 
57 of 200 (29 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – None

Rookie Cards (12) – J.T. Riddle, Matt Carasiti, Jose Osuna, Jesus Aguilar, Anthony Alford, Joe Jimenez, Jarlin Garcia, German Marquez, Adalberto Mejia, Ty Blach, Andrew Toles, Josh Smoker

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Not long after the final out of Game 7 of the World Series last night, Topps showed its hand for the commemorative cardboard.

The Houston Astros already have three World Series champions options available via the company's website.

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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 Astros win it all and collectors win with all their big pulls.

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If you hadn't noticed, there are a number of boxes with discounted prices right now over on the mothership as BlowoutCards.com begins its Black November sales now.

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.

2015 Bowman's Best baseball hobby box
There are more than a few Bowman boxes up for grabs with lower prices as part of this wave -- the first of several to come between now and Black Friday -- but this one has a pretty strong discount (limit eight boxes per person) and potential. The mini-box format allows you to share a box with someone else if you want, too, with each half-box including six packs and and two autos. Among the signers here? Carlos Correa, Kris Bryant, Dansby Swanson, Rafael Devers, Mike Trout, Andrew Benintendi, Bryce Harper, Byron Buxton and many others. You can do very well here with a little luck.

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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 Bowman High Tek (hobby box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 1
Cards per pack: 10
Cards in this box: 10
Base set (any pattern): 5 of 56 (9 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards – Nick Senzel, Lewis Brinson, A.J. Puk, Willie Calhoun, Roniel Raudes

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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 Archives Signature Series Active Player Edition baseball cards
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 1
Cards per pack: 1
Base set completion: 
N/A

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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 World Series ends tonight, Five Star arrives, big questions, big pulls & big steals.

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The MLB season may be nearing its end, but the new baseball sets just keep coming.

One more set that joined the calendar as of Tuesday is 2017 Topps Mini, which Topps teased online 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: World Series chatter, huge pulls, Giannis discussions and an altered high-dollar Aaron Rodgers Rookie Card.

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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: Avoiding ugly autographs, World Series chatter and big pulls in this Sunday edition ... check 'em out.

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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 Update baseball cards 
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for nearly all wax formats)

Packs per box: 11 (10 standard plus one medallion pack)
Cards per pack: 10
Cards in this box: 101
Base set completion: 
83 of 300 (28 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards of note – Nolan Arenado, Carlos Beltran, Miguel Sano

Rookie Cards (39) – Notables include Yoan Moncada (2), Alex Bregman, Alex Reyes, Ian Happ

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What: 2017 Leaf Trinity baseball cards
Arrives: January
Box basics: Six autographed cards per box (12 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: This one returns with what Leaf says is the "strongest checklist in Trinity baseball history" with new draft picks and notable prospects that the company says will be "chasing the face of professional baseball for years to come."

Keep reading for more info and a full gallery.

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The Chicago Cubs may not be playing right now, but the memories of last season's historic World Series win are still fueling demand for unique pieces of memorabilia.

And it might not get more unique than an MLB-authenticated piece of the famed ivy from Wrigley Field.

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There's some extra cardboard coming to card shops for the holiday season.

Topps revealed on Friday its 2017 Topps Holiday promotion, which will include three-card packs of a new set complete with holiday touches and December superstars alongside possible autographed cards.

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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: Tracking big hits -- and pulling them, too -- as we head into the weekend.

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The arrival of 2017 Topps Archives Signature Series Active Player Edition baseball cards this week offers an interesting twist on the products that have been, relatively speaking, a fun rip in recent years.

The idea? A signed buyback card in every pack -- except this time it's today's stars on cards from the recent past and on their Rookie Cards, a bit of a do-over with signed RCs or prospect cards for those who never had them.

Aaron Judge has a high-dollar 2013 Bowman Chrome auto with a full rainbow but this time his base card gets enhanced, stamped and encased and somebody will land that for the price of box. With 99 copies signed, it's actually one card that's very plentiful in this release-- and yet one of them sold for $350 on eBay. 

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