What's Buzzing: MLPBA grants Onyx a minor-leaguer card deal, talking and ripping 2024 Topps Heritage High Number and more in this edition.

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1 -- Onyx to expand prospect cards

2 -- An early look at 2025 Allen & Ginter X

3 -- MLB: Daily overreaction thread

4 -- Results from six Heritage High Number blasters

5 -- Baseball breaks are here

6 -- Still talking Heritage High Number

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The pack: 2021 Onyx Vintage College Football cards
First Buzz preview/checklist: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

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What: 2024 Onyx Vintage Extended baseball cards
Arrives: October
Box basics: Four autos per regular box (24 packs per, six boxes per case); 10 autos per mega box (10 packs per, six boxes per case)
Checklist: See below
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Onyx's Vintage brand takes the field for a second time this year with its dual-format approach and an array of newly created old-style cards and inclusions as it celebrates baseball with past greats, promising prospects and some other surprises.

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What: 2024 Onyx Authenticated Baseball Clubhouse Collection Authentic Game-used Batting Gloves
Arrives: Sept. 26
Box basics: One pair of game-used batting gloves per box (12 boxes per case via four mini-cases)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: This MLBPA-approved product returns to collectors' hands once again with every box including a pair of used batting gloves from top young names, established All-Stars and even Hall of Famers.

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Like many collectors, Buzz is a fan of grading and knows that there are many reasons that collectors choose to slab cards. Sometimes it's to enhance the appeal and protect them when selling. Other times it's to protect an investment for the long-term or to protect for sentimental reasons. Or, it might be just for fun or curiosity about a potential grade.

Here's this month's grading diary here on The Buzz ...

No. 1 GOES FIRST HERE, TOO ...
The Card: Bryce Young 2021 Onyx Vintage College Football Autographs
The Reason Graded: I collect Alabama guys but on the cheap so when a top talent arrives on NFL cardboard odds are I already found them ... if they had stuff. Generally, I try to have auto of all new big names and in the most-recent years thanks to NIL deals where active players can sign autograph deals that's been easier to do -- for both big names and guys who won't be top picks. In the case of this new Carolina Panthers QB, I pulled this one -- something I also did with Tua Tagovailoa -- so I don't have to chase new stuff after he was taken No. 1 in this year's NFL Draft. (But I will if I somehow find bargains.) This one is nice as it's on-card, has a clean retro design (I like that) and has a design/photo that doesn't showcase the fact that there are a couple small missing logos here that would come with full licensing. Atop that, his autograph on this card -- and the card itself -- is super clean and many of his autos are absolutely not clean in recent years. (In fact, I'd say that his auto is bad way more often than it's good ... and it's not that good visually to start with.) When I saw this one, I knew I needed to slab it for those reasons.
The Grade: CSG 9.5

Reality Check: I was a little worried about the surface here as the retro stock is definitely no-frills -- it doesn't even have a light gloss -- but it checked in with a grade I don't mind. I was happy with this and you'll probably see more of Young here in this series -- or at least Buzz Buys -- more once new NFL stuff starts popping up and the college colors fade away for some. Those colors won't fade away for me -- I like them a lot more than anything Carolina -- and he's always going to be the first Heisman-winning Alabama QB.

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What: 2023 Onyx Preferred Players Baseball Collection autographed baseballs
Arrives: Late April
Box basics: One signed baseball per box (three boxes per case; 12 boxes per master case)
Final player checklist: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: This MLBPA-approved product hits the diamond once again with some big surprises in store and a roster of young names who are in demand as well as legends who may not be the easiest autos.

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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: Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs get another ring ... Jalen Hurts, NFL breaks and more football chatter.

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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 pack: 2021 Onyx Vintage College Football cards
First Buzz preview/checklist: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (when available)

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What: 2022 Onyx Nimbus Collection sports cards
Arrives: Jan. 31, 2023
Box basics: Two on-card autographed cards per four-card box (four boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Onyx goes upscale with a new multi-sport release that's packed with legendary names, even more legendary combos and other rare possibilities inside its boxes which the company says is "the high-end product of 2022."

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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 pack: 2021 Onyx Vintage College Football cards
First Buzz preview/checklist: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (when available)

Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery of what was in this one.

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What: 2021 Onyx Gems baseball cards
Arrives: February
Box basics: Two slabbed autographs per box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Onyx gets into the slabbed autograph game with top prospects and young stars in play for this release with ink variants and inscriptions adding extra chase.

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WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. — Piece of The Game Sports Cards and Collectibles, a one-of-a-kind sports cards and collectibles store, opens its flagship location today.

Moving operations from an online platform, which serves some of the largest sports collectibles markets in the U.S., has been a goal of owner David Prince for the last two years. Their first location -- off bustling U.S. Route 9 in Wappingers Falls -- is the prototype for future stores already slated to open in Westchester County, N.Y., and Mahwah, N.J., over the next year. The goal is to "have a truly unique and immersive experience for avid sports cards and collectible patrons." There is a ribbon-cutting ceremony today at 4 p.m. with a public opening tomorrow at 11 a.m.

"As a card collector since I was a child, I wanted to create a space that allows the cards to be displayed as they should be," Prince said. "Cards are now considered alternative assets, similar to fine art, and my store displays cards and collectibles as such."

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What: 2021 Onyx Vintage College Football cards
Arrives: Feb. 4
Box basics: Two on-card autographs per four-card box (24 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: The new NCAA NIL landscape that allows players to make money on their name, image and likeness means a whole new world for cardboard -- and Onyx is in on it with its Vintage line going back to school to present new Amateur Rookie Cards and autographs.

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What: 2021-22 Onyx Vintage Basketball cards
Arrives: Sept. 24
Box basics: Two on-card autographs per four-card box (24 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Onyx hits the court for its first basketball release that includes ink from past and present greats, at least two WNBA superstars and a number of promising draft picks.

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What: 2020 Onyx Vintage Premium baseball cards
Arrives: June 1
Box basics: One autograph per three-card box (24 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Onyx gives collectors another round of Vintage this year with a release limited to just 100 cases this time around -- and a late inclusion via redemption is New York Yankees prospect Jasson Dominguez.

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What: 2019 Onyx Premiere Gear Collection
Arrives: Oct. 31
Box basics: One game-used memorabilia piece per box
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Onyx Authenticated presents its newest collection of game-used memorabilia in this MLBPA-approved release that includes a little bit of everything from some of the biggest young names in the game.

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What: 2019 Onyx Baseball Clubhouse Lumber Collection
Arrives: Early October
Box basics: One autographed or game-used bat per box
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: This MLBPA-approved product arrives once again from Onyx Authenticated and includes bats from top young names as well as some established veterans.

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What: 2019 Onyx/Futera Prospects & Legends baseball cards
Arrives: Mid-August
Box basics: One autograph per pack -- four packs per box (12 boxes per case via three inners)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Onyx and Futera team up for a high-end look at baseball prospects as well as big names from the past and present in a limited release that will include just 75 cases made.

Keep reading to see more, including a full preliminary checklist.

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What: 2018 Onyx Preferred Players Baseball Collection autographed baseballs
Arrives: April 12
Box basics: One signed baseball per box (three boxes per mini case; 12 total per case)

What's buzz-worthy: This MLBPA-approved product arrives with ink from some of the biggest names in the game inside, among them Mike Trout, Aaron Judge, Clayton Kershaw and Ichiro Suzuki to name a few, while top prospects also in this one will include Shohei Ohtani, Ronald Acuna, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Gleyber Torres.

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Your next big-name New York Yankees rookie to arrive in The Big Apple will face big expectations -- but he doesn't have nearly as much cardboard as those who arrived before him.

Unlike the arrivals of Gary Sanchez and Aaron Judge -- guys who had plenty of baseball cards and plenty of certified autographs when they hit The Show -- shortstop Gleyber Torres doesn't.

And that could bode very well for collectors who own them.

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