Mystery Box Buzz Break is a new series here on The Buzz -- it's essentially a Buzz Break but only for "mystery boxes" that seem to be everywhere these days -- and not just in the sports realm. Like this and want to see more? Is there a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The mystery box: Boston Red Sox Mystery Publications Grab Bag
Where to buy: Via Red Sox on MLB.com (find new MLB cards at BlowoutCards.com)

Keep reading for a full breakdown and a gallery of what was in this box. (Yes, it was a box and not a bag ... but that's their image.)

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What's Buzzing: NFL chatter, Big Dumper homers again, new NBA topics, a Kenny Lofton story and more.

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1 -- Reactions to NFL Week 3

2 -- And many more NFL discussions are here

3 -- Big Dumper homers again -- 58 on the year

4 -- Plenty of NBA talk

5 -- A Kenny Lofton story

6 -- Phillies Karen: The new offer stands

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What's Buzzing: A big day of WWE and AEW, readying for a new NFL week, Big Dumper homers again, Topps Holiday and more.

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1 -- Readying for NFL Week 3

2 -- Wrestling chatter after a big Saturday for WWE & AEW

3 -- Big Dumper's homer passes Griffey for Seattle record

4 -- Nothing.

5 -- Reactions to Topps Holiday

6 -- Phillies Karen: The new offer stands

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What's Buzzing: Juan Soto, Nick Kurtz, Phillies Karen, Clayton Kershaw, NFL Week 3 and a big day for AEW & WWE.

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1 -- Checking in on the Juan Soto chatter

2 -- Readying for NFL Week 3

3 -- Talking Nick Kurtz

4 -- Wrestling chatter for a big Saturday for WWE & AEW

5 -- Clayton Kershaw is retiring

6 -- Phillies Karen: The new offer stands

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What's Buzzing: Clayton Kershaw, Tua Tagovailoa, Topps Update, Brewers baseball, NFL Week 3 and Phillies Karen.

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1 -- Talking Tua

2 -- Clayton Kershaw is retiring 

3 -- A question about Topps Update ...

4 -- Talking Brewers baseball

5 -- Readying for NFL Week 3

6 -- Phillies Karen: The new offer stands

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Minor league baseball cards from the past can include some weird stuff ... sometimes stuff you wouldn't imagine to be found on a baseball card. Here are some some new fun cards and oddities in this latest edition of MiLB Madness. 

WELL BEFORE PHILLY
The Card: Kyle Schwarber 2015 Topps Heritage Minor League
The Buzz On This: This MiLB card isn't one that came from a team set since Heritage is an in-pack brand of the past (it was killed off in recent years) and it was one that revisited old MLB designs with today's printing and today's stars. This is a re-do of the 1966 Topps set showing Schwarber after his first season as a minor-leaguer. Schwarber has got plenty of prospect cards showing him in a Cubs uniform and his college colors as well -- those arrived the year before this one and his USA Baseball stuff actually arrived two years before this. In short, he's got a lot of cardboard -- and that's a good thing for collectors who like his slugging ways (I do). He doesn't have as much cardboard in actual MiLB uniforms, so that's why I picked this off on the night of his All-Star Game heroics. This was my first target but you'll see more of him on his few minor-league cards here in the future.

Keep reading for more examples of some weird or fun baseball cards (and other stuff) you can find in MiLB.

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Cleveland Guardians prospect Travis Bazzana shows off one of his big pulls teased by the MLBPA Players Collection project.

What's Buzzing: NFL Week 3, Joe Burrow, NBA licensing, sketch card chatter, Phillies Karen and reactions to the MLBPA Players Collection.

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1 -- Readying for NFL Week 3

2 -- Joe Burrow injury reactions 

3 -- Talking NBA licensing ... 

4 -- Chatter and rumors about sketch cards

5 -- Reactions to the MLBPA Players Collection 

6 -- Phillies Karen: The new offer stands

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What: 2025 Panini Select baseball cards
Arrives: Nov. 5
Box basics: Three autographs or memorabilia cards per 12-pack hobby box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Select returns to the field once again with some notable signers in the mix as well as plenty of star power from today's promising prospects.

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The Roy Hobbs prop baseball card seen in The Natural is heavily faked and all over eBay. The real one as seen here does not have a printed back. Robert Redford died today at age 89.

What's Buzzing: Robert Redford, NFL chatter, C.J. Stroud, The Boys, Phillies Karen and the MLBPA Players Collection are today's topics.

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1 -- All your NFL chatter is here

2 -- What goes up ... 

3 -- Robert Redford dies at 89

4 -- Inside a case of The Boys

5 -- Introducing the MLBPA Players Collection 

6 -- Phillies Karen: The new offer stands

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Auction Buzz is a monthly look at some of the variety found out there on the auction block ... check 'em out.

It's going to be a busy end of the year for Dallas-based Heritage Auctions with a number of regularly scheduled events as well as some showcase auctions with high-profile stuff all on the calendar. This time, we look at a few things from a few active sales this month.

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ANOTHER BIG JORDAN
The Item: Michael Jordan Oct. 26, 1984 (NBA Debut) Chicago Bulls season-ticket stub (PSA 4)
The Price: $65,000 after 25 bids (ends Sept. 27)
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: Last month, a Michael Jordan (and Kobe Bryant) card sale via auction re-wrote some hobby history and, while we're confident this one won't fetch $12.9 million, this one is in some rare air. It has already hit its estimated price from the auction house and while its grade is low there are only three higher. "The most important athletic debut of the post-war era?" asked Heritage in its listing. "A strong argument could be made. Perhaps only Wayne Gretzky could challenge Michael Jordan in balloting seeking to identify the most dominant figure of his respective major sport, but once you step outside the sports arena and into the wider popular culture, M.J. leaves The Great One in his dust. He remains one of the most recognizable humans on the planet two decades after his retirement from the NBA." Jordan scored a modest 16 points in a 109-93 win over the Washington Bullets on this night and only 14 of these have been grade overall.

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What's Buzzing: Introducing the MLBPA Players Collection, if Mike Trout and Aaron Judge retired tomorrow, chatter about an error, NFL Week 2, Joe Burrow is hurt, there's a new Phillies Karen baseball offer and more.

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1 -- Introducing the MLBPA Players Collection 

2 -- If Aaron Judge and Mike Trout retired now ...

3 -- Dom Canzone, anyone? ... Big Dumper keeps homering

4 -- All your NFL Week 2 chatter ... Joe Burrow is hurt

5 -- Much ado about ...

6 -- Phillies Karen: The new offer stands

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What's Buzzing: College football reactions, NFL week 2 anticipation, new pulls, the new Phillies Karen offer and more.

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1 -- All your college football chatter

2 -- NFL Week 2 talk is here

3 -- Opening some Origins NFL

4 -- Non-sports chatter 

5 -- Some new MLB pulls

6 -- Phillies Karen: The offer has been enhanced

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It was the moment seen around the world.

The Saga Of Phillies Karen & The Home Run Ball was just one week ago tonight down in Miami and if you don't know the tale here's a quick recap. A Harrison Bader home run went into the stands and put a run on the board for the Philadelphia Phillies as part of a rout of the Marlins. It bounced around on the concrete and ended up in the hands of fan Drew Feltwell, who ran down the row of seats below her to retrieve it and then ran back to his seat, proudly popping the ball into the glove of his 10-year-old son, Lincoln ... until there was a showdown.

"She definitely scurried on over," Feltwell told NBC10 Philadelphia. "And as she reached for my arm, she just yelled in my ear, 'That's my ball.' Like super loud. I jumped out of my skin."

"A lot, a lot of eyes on us by that time. And the ball was already in his glove and she just wouldn't stop. And I mean, I'm literally leaning back as she's in my face, yelling and yelling and yelling. And I pretty much just wanted her to go away. And because I had a fork in the road, either do something I was probably going to regret or be a dad and show him how to de-escalate the situation. So that's where I went."

The family ended up with gifts from both teams after the in-game negative attention -- after all, it was all caught on live TV and filmed from in the stands -- and they met Bader after the game where the kid ended up with one of his signed Victus Sports game-model bats and a moment better than just a baseball leading up to his birthday, which is why they were at the game. They ended up on Good Morning America talking about it all while her identity remains a mystery despite all kinds of angsty and, well, uncouth Internet reactions that are as abrasive as that moment. (Feltwell has asked the public to stop all that. We concur.)

Since then, our "firm and official" offer of $5,000 for the ball  -- as long as it's signed and inscribed "I'm sorry" -- that we dropped a day later has been around the world, too.

It's been covered by -- take a breath -- The New York Times, The Athletic, Sports Illustrated, Yahoo, Yahoo Sports, The Sporting News, cllct, The Philadelphia Inquirer, MSN, National Post, Fox News, FOX 29 Philadelphia, Cleveland.com, Hindustan Times, NJ.com, Times of India, The Independent (UK), Daily Mail (UK), New York Post, 104.5 WOKV, The Economic Times, Patch, Toronto Sun, The Tab, The Mirror U.S., Daily Express U.S., FanBuzz, BroBible, Whiskey Riff, TotallyProSports, EssentiallySports, Bounding Into Sports, VT, Breitbart, Bored Panda, Sportsnaut, Hypefresh Magazine, Bounding Into Sports, BVM Sports, inkl, NewsBreak, Finurah, EssentiallySports, Dexerto and we're sure even more than that based on the social media push-around we've seen. Some of it's been good, some of it's been bad, some of it's been confusing, some of them have been proud to see it.

We know he should have the ball.

And, now ... why are we here once again?

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What's Buzzing: Aaron Judge moves up the Yankees home run record book, Phillies Karen, an NBA commissioner comment, non-sports cards and more.

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1 -- Opening some Impeccable baseball

2 -- Checking in on the Aaron Judge chatter after a two-homer night

3 -- A non-sports update

4 -- A thought from the NBA commissioner?

5 -- Readying for NFL Week 2

6 -- Phillies Karen: The offer still stands

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What: 2025 Topps T205 baseball cards
Arrives: TBD
Box basics: Four packs per 40-card box ... one autograph in every four boxes
Checklist: Click here
Order: BlowoutCards.com (when available)

What's buzz-worthy: Topps revisits old-timey tobacco cards with a T206 companion that carries a little more color, the T205 series, but with the same general approach of past editions.

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Here's this month's roundup of items that have recently caught my eye as a buyer ...

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GOING FOR THE GOLD
The Card: Shotzi Blackheart 2022 Panini Select WWE Gold Wave Prizm (/10)
The Price: Around the price of a blaster box at arrival
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This brand is my favorite of the Panini years for WWE, and in the case of this star who I collect I have seemed to found her rarities on the affordable side at times with this release. This is a perfect example of that with it being one of the rarest parallels in there but it cost me not much more than the price of a retail box. It was arguably underpriced, so I grabbed it quickly when I spotted it. Will I grade it? It's a possibility, though this release's centering issues can create some surprises (that aren't totally surprises) as I found out with a different parallel of this card. Poke around in Making The Grade last month for an example.
Grab a box right here: WWE cards are here.

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It's a day on the calendar that's always going to be remembered ... but this is not really tied to that. This one's simply from MLB action two years ago today.

This month's ball in the Collecting Game-used series is another that came to me via a grab bag where all I knew was the date of the game -- and I actually chose this date due to the visiting team, the Atlanta Braves, which I kind of casually collect on the game-used front. This was from the first game of a doubleheader between the two National League powerhouses and it was handled by a pair of All-Stars for its one-pitch lifetime in The Show.

Keep reading to see the details this time ... and the ball in action.

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What's Buzzing: Topps Chrome boxing, Nick Kurtz, NBA chatter, NFL Week 2, Phillies Karen and ... Pro Debut?

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1 -- Breaking down a Topps Chrome boxing case ... see more in gallery here

2 -- Nick Kurtz

3 -- All your NBA card chatter is here

4 -- Pondering Pro Debut this year ... 

5 -- Readying for NFL Week 2

6 -- Phillies Karen: The offer still stands

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What's Buzzing: Anthony Rizzo retires as a Cub, Kyle Schwarber joins the 50 Homer Club, NFL chatter, MLB pulls, Phillies Karen and more.

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1 -- Anthony Rizzo calls it a career

2 -- Kyle Schwarber joins the 50 Homer Club

3 -- Already pondering this year's NFL MVP? (Yep.)

4 -- New baseball breaks are here

5 -- Readying for NFL Week 2

6 -- The offer still stands

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What's Buzzing: Week 2 in the NFL is coming, our offer to Phillies Karen, Allen & Ginter signers, wrestling chatter and more in this Tuesday edition.

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1 -- Readying for NFL Week 2

2 -- Wrestling chatter is here

3 -- Some good hockey threads to see

4 -- Known 2025 Topps Allen & Ginter signers so far

5 -- Talking production calendars vs. season calendars (or something)

6 -- The offer still stands

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What's Buzzing: NFL Week 1 reactions, Davey Johnson, Derrick Henry, Big Dumper, a fake logoman graded and more.

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1 -- NFL Week 1 reactions

2 -- Collectors remember former Mets manager Davey Johnson

3 -- Derrick Henry had a day

4 -- A fake patch gets slabbed, sells for big money

5 -- Big Dumper homers again

6 -- All your MLB chatter as the postseason is coming

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What's Buzzing: NFL Week 1, Shohei Ohtani keeps on homering, college football, Big Dumper, Taylor Swift and more.

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1 -- NFL Week 1 reactions

2 -- Shohei Ohtani keeps on homering

3 -- Talking college football

4 -- Looking back at the NFL-Taylor Swift thread

5 -- Checking back in on Big Dumper chatter

6 -- All your MLB chatter

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Dad grabbed a home run ball for his son, she wanted it back ... and now BlowoutCards.com needs it.

We'll offer $5,000 for that baseball right here, right now ... but there is a catch.

We want that ball signed and inscribed by her -- and only her, whoever she is -- "I'm sorry" so we can simply give it back to the kid. Our offer is official and the offer is firm -- here's our tweet noting it all and making the offer public.

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What's Buzzing: A.J. Lee returns to WWE, NFL Week 1 chatter, Junior Caminero, Star Wars Chrome, Sapphire UFC and more.

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1 -- NFL Week 1 is here

2 -- A.J. Lee returns to WWE after a decade away

3 -- Checking in on the Junior Caminero thread 

4 -- Results from almost a half-case of Star Wars Chrome blasters 

5 -- Inside a Sapphire UFC box

6 -- All your MLB chatter

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What's Buzzing: NFL action continues tonight, Patrick Mahomes prices, Origins NFL pulls and more.

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1 -- NFL Week 1 is here

2 -- 3,000 hits vs. 500 homers

3 -- Good question

4 -- Talking Patrick Mahomes

5 -- New Origins NFL pulls

6 -- All your MLB chatter

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