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The box: 2016 Topps Allen & Ginter baseball cards (hobby box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 24 (plus one box-topper)
Cards per pack: 8
Cards in this box: 193
Base set completion: 
125 of 300 (42 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Kris Bryant, Miguel Cabrera, Buster Posey, Josh Donaldson, Joe Morgan, Alex Rodriguez, Andrew McCutchen, Albert Pujols, Roger Clemens

Notable non-baseball base cards – Steve Spurrier, Steve Kerr, Hannah Storm, Monica Abbott, Missy Franklin, Marlins Man

Rookie Cards (24) – Julio Urias (SP), Peter O'Brien (SP), Trevor Brown (SP), Kenta Maeda, Trevor Story, Trea Turner, Michael Conforto, Jose Berrios, Alex Dickerson, Trayce Thompson, Matt Reynolds, Byung Ho Park, Rob Refsnyder, Guido Knudson, Dustin Garneau, Zach Lee, Gary Sanchez, Max Kepler, Carl Edwards Jr. Kaleb Cowart, Jose Peraza, Luke Maile, Tyler White, Kyle Waldrop

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Ken Griffey Jr.'s Hall of Fame bobblehead is a hot commodity on eBay already -- and it's not even out yet.

The Seattle Mariners have a three-day stretch beginning next Friday where the team will honor its first Hall of Famer and retire his No. 24. It begins against the Angels on Friday with this Hall of Fame bobblehead.

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Ken Griffey Jr.'s induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame has had its share of commemorative cardboard and now it's got something more.

New old caps from New Era commemorating The Kid's never-ending trip to Cooperstown and his upcoming number retirement.

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We're less than a week away from the arrival of 2016 Topps Chrome baseball cards -- and this year's rainbow of Refractors could be promising with a design that's primed for parallels.

And, with the arrival of the checklist, we now know what Topps promises inside its packs.

Click here to view the 2016 Topps Chrome baseball card checklist.

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What's Buzzing Today: Allen & Ginter, Bret Saberhagen, a trip to Turner Field, inside a Rip Card, The National and dirty Ted Williams.

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Los Angeles Angels pitcher Hector Santiago didn't grow up a collector as a kid in New Jersey, but all it took was a pair of New York Yankees jerseys to start a collection.

Now he's known as "Hector The Collector" to his teammates.

Fox Sports West recently caught up with him to go inside his hobby room. Check it out ... after the jump.

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What's Buzzing Today: Allen & Ginter, Allen & Ginter, Allen & Ginter, Aroldis Chapman, 1986-87 Fleer and The National.

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What: 2017 Topps MLB Sticker Collection
Arrives: March 2
Box basics: Eight stickers per pack per 50-pack box (16 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: The first product of 2017 is here and it's the basic must-do for many younger collectors -- stickers.

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One of baseball's top prospects is getting the call on Monday.

The Houston Astros will call up former LSU star Alex Bregman after a solid second season in the minor leagues where he's hit .306 with 20 homers and 61 RBI in 80 games between Double-A Corpus Christi and Triple-A Fresno.

"We feel like this is a good time to add him to a good team," Astros manager A.J. Hinch told the Houston Chronicle. "We're rolling along pretty well. He doesn't have to come up here and be anything but himself and contribute at a couple different positions."

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You never know where you'll see baseball cards and late-night TV is one place where some good ol' American cardboard surfaced.

Actor Viggo Mortensen was on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and brought some gifts for the host.

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What's Buzzing Today: Griffey to Cooperstown, Chris Sale & his scissors, new breaks, 2016 Topps Allen & Ginter, The National & more.

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Card of the Day: A Chris Sale 2013 Topps Tribute Commemorative Cuts Relic -- with a cut piece of his game-used jersey.

Why? Well, you may not have watched TV lately but Sale was suspended five games by the Chicago White Sox after he reportedly cutting up the team's throwback jerseys the team was supposed to have worn on Saturday night. Rather than pitch wearing a certain style uniform, he reportedly destroyed the uniforms before being sent home.

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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: 2016 Topps Allen & Ginter baseball cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 8
Cards per pack: 6
Cards in this box: 47
Base set completion: 
26 of 300 (9 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Tom Glavine, Robinson Cano, Monica Abbott, Jacob deGrom, Michelle Steele

Rookie Cards (9) – Nomar Mazara, Stephen Piscotty, Aaron Nola, Guido Knudson, Zach Lee, Dustin Garneau, Hector Olivera, Raul Mondesi, Richie Shaffer

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Update: It will arrive on Topps.com on Wednesday, July 27. Price is $69.99 a box or $1,250 per 18-box case. Click here to view the checklist Topps released for the brand.

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Topps is bringing back the X once again.

Last year for the 10th release of its Allen & Ginter brand, Topps created a "parallel" product named Allen & Ginter X for the tobacco-styled brand with a black image background instead of the traditional white.

This year, it's back and it will be an online-only product -- initially only available at Topps.com -- packing a guaranteed autograph in every box.

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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: 2013 Panini Cooperstown baseball cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 6 (five standard packs and one Green Crystal Shard parallel pack)
Cards per pack: 6
Cards in this box: 33
Base set completion: 
20 of 100 (20 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notable players on base cards – Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, Carl Yastrzemski, Jimmie Foxx, Warren Spahn, Lou Gehrig

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We're just a couple of days away from the official arrival of 2016 Topps Allen & Ginter baseball cards, meaning the newest batch of surprise inclusions, World's Champions and downright unusual cardboard will be here to captivate some collectors once again.

The wall art version of the set arrived today, giving us all a glimpse at the base cards and a couple of insert sets.

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What's Buzzing Today: Nothing but the breaks -- old & new NBA, MLB, Goodwin & more.

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Panini America's newest baseball card brand -- 2016 Donruss Optic -- is here with an Optichromed take on 2016 Donruss with some new twists and new takes on cards from the past.

And a new twist just mentioned by Panini last night is that there are Hot Boxes that include five autographs and a number of extra parallels.

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The SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game has come and gone, but a number of memorabilia pieces used by top stars in the showcase game are now on the auction block via MLB Auctions.

Among them are items used by game MVP Yoan Moncada, Alex Bregman, Dansby Swanson, Clint Frazier, Andrew Benintendi and Carson Fulmer to name a few.

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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: 2013 Topps Chrome baseball cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 8 (seven standard packs and one Purple Refractor pack)
Cards per pack: 4
Cards in this box: 32
Base set completion: 
22 of 220 (10 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notable players on base cards – Jose Bautista, Cole Hamels, Starlin Castro, Max Scherzer

Rookie Cards (8) – Melky Mesa, Didi Gregorious, Alex Colome, Zack Wheeler, Robbie Grossman, Eury Perez, Carter Capps, Shelby Miller

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What: 2016 Bowman's Best baseball cards
Arrives: Dec. 21
Box basics: Four autographs per box (eight boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Bowman's Best is back once again with a mini-box format that delivers two autographs in six packs with this year's top veterans, rookies, prospects and draft picks potentially found inside.

See a gallery and more ... below.

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What's Buzzing Today: More big breaks, Leaf Pop Century, collecting vs. investing and The National.

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Topps Now has a new first today with the first Relic card that's part of the real-time card line.

This time, the card will be limited to only 99 copies on a first-come, first-served basis and it features Eric Hosmer, who was the MVP of the MLB All-Star Game last night.

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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 five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Nothing but big breaks of new, old and the memorable.

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The annual eclectic look at baseball, unique people in pop culture and "world's champions" in several other pastimes is almost here.

It's 2016 Topps Allen & Ginter and it's just 10 days away.

As the clock counts down to the hobby release date on July 22, we've gotten our first look at the final checklist to see who's included in the 11th edition of the brand since its 2006 revival by Topps.

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