Buzz buys and busts a lot of boxes right here for Buzz Breaks, but one of my goals is to rip a little less and talk more about cardboard that I -- and you -- might like. One way to do that? Simple show and tell -- present a few pick-ups and say why they captured my attention.

So, with all that said, here are a few Buzz Buys ... and this time around it's a little heavier on football as that season is here.

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AEW ORIGINALS ... AS IN ORIGINAL ARTWORK 
The Cards: Gummy Arts original T206-style drawings (1/1s) for Thunder Rosa, Orange Cassidy, MJF, Powerhouse Hobbs & Sting
The Price: Less than an AEW hobby box
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: If you don't know the work of artist Mike Noren -- aka Gummy Arts -- he's been drawing athletes or memorable pop culture characters in penciled cartoon-style reproductions of past cards or on new creations for years now. You can find constantly updating feeds of his work in timely posts over on Instagram or Twitter and then sometimes those get reproduced and sold as cards in packs. In other instances, he's let the original artwork go, too. Those vanish fast and can be pricey -- actually, his packs can vanish fast, too -- and for years now I've eyed the section of his site for original art (typically $50-80 depending on subject) that made it into cards. I had never found one that was must-have for me -- or at least found a must-have one in stock -- but one day after seeing a tweet of his I did my regular ritual and checked the site to find this set of five T206/Honus Wagner homages in one slightly pricier lot but had to grab them. I had remembered seeing the Rosa online but didn't remember any of these being made into actual cards. It turns out they weren't, so the only thing that exists f0r now (at least when I recently grabbed them) are these originals. Four are top AEW stars while one is an all-time great who has worked for every company ... really a no-brainer for me and I might have paid the typical full price for one or two of these. The Rosa card in a Tijuana jersey and others in their own Wagner-style threads made me laugh, while that Cassidy is not far from spot-on even in Noren's style. Poke around here on The Buzz and you'll see more of these ... just not in 1/1 original art form.
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The international all-star action of the World Baseball Classic is here with teams from 16 countries taking the field and appearing on Topps baseball cards, too.

The gear?

It's in the plans to be coming to game-used cards, too, but for now fans will have to settle on buying their own caps and they're available for 15 teams from New Era. 

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The wait for the latest comic book blockbuster continues, but the wait for the new collectable caps does not.

Suicide Squad arrives in theaters on Friday, bringing a new group of DC Comics stars to the big screen for the first time but New Era has it covered already with the release of its Suicide Squad Collection today.

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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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The new version of Ghostbusters is headed to the box office this weekend after months of mixed reactions.

Whether the movie resonates or bombs, fans of the two original films in the franchise have seen a serious wave of merchandising along with the new film that celebrates both the classic cast and the new all-female ghost-busting squad.

Among those items are a series of caps from New Era, some of which are standard-looking headwear ... and some, well, that just aren't.

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The young stars of the Chicago Cubs are the infield of the National League All-Star team after the final voting was released on Tuesday night, but don't worry -- New Era has its on-field caps for The Midsummer Classic available for fans of all 30 teams.

The All-Star caps have gold trim on the logos, gold stars stitched on the vent holes and an All-Star logo on one side. The bills are not team colors and the same mixed gray is used for all 30 teams.

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Topps and New Era Cap are teaming up to bring exclusive baseball cards to fans -- and hat wearers -- as part of a promotion that spotlights the company's key players.

A nine-card 2016 Topps New Era baseball card set -- with autographs and autographed Relics randomly inserted -- will be available at LIDS stores beginning today.

“We felt that working with such a historic company like Topps on this collaboration was a perfect fit,” said Tony DeSimone, Category Director Baseball, New Era Cap. “We believe that creating special cards with on-­field caps swatches will resonate with both Topps and New Era’s tremendous fan bases.”

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The Minor League Baseball season is young, too, and New Era Caps has teased some new additions to its lineup that fans can see down on the farm if they're watching the game's future stars compete.

Without long-running histories and with the need for promotion and an injection of interest from time to time, the teams take risks in their designs with caps like those of the Vermont Lake Monsters (above).

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Four years ago, Bryce Harper made his MLB debut with plenty of collectors watching and plenty of money already spent on his cardboard.

He's lived up to the hype since then as the reigning National League MVP, and to mark the four-year anniversary of the debut -- and what he's done since then -- a limited edition cap and package was produced for Nationals fans to chase if they live in the D.C. area.

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The merchandising of "geek films" has been as massive as the box office the box office for sci-fi, comic and other franchises in the last decade and beyond and the latest in New Era Caps are perhaps a perfect example of the eternal dilemma.

Do you use them or collect them?

In the case of the Batman vs. Superman Character Armor 59FIFTY caps from New Era, they're unique and pricey, which might add to that debate even though they are hats with no packaging to worry about.

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New Era Caps, the maker of on-field hats for Major League Baseball and countless other styles of headwear in the sports world and beyond, launched a new line of Star Wars caps on Thursday with classic characters from the science fiction saga but also some new characters from The Force Awakens arriving on Dec. 18.

It's the Star Wars Big Face Collection.

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