What: 2025 Panini Score-A-Treat football cards
Arrives: Sept. 5, 2025
Box basics: 40 three-card packs per tray (20 trays per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Score once again gets a Halloween-themed parallel release that takes the basic set and adds some tricks and treats to the look as an alternative to candy when it comes to that big day.

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What's Buzzing: MLB All-Star Game reactions, The National, Tom Brady Rookie Cards, "true" collectors, signed books and is Kyle Schwarber a Hall of Famer?

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1 -- Is Kyle Schwarber a Hall of Famer?

2 -- Checking in on the autographed books thread

3 -- All your All-Star Game chatter 

4 -- A "true" collectors question 

5 -- Still talking Tom Brady Rookie Cards

6 -- The National nears

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What: 2025 Panini Squishmallows Halloween cards
Arrives: Sept. 5, 2025
Box basics: 40 three-card packs per tray (20 trays per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: The long-running stuffed toys will hit cardboard once again for the holiday with this release that includes the basics and some chases all with the spooky feels applied.

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What's Buzzing: Big Dumper continues big swings, All-Star Game chatter, new pulls and more in this Tuesday edition.

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1 -- Big Dumper makes Derby history ... and here's more on Cal Raleigh

2 -- New MLB pulls are here

3 -- All-Star Game chatter 

4 -- All your off-season football card talk

5 -- Basketball cards on their minds

6 -- The National nears

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What's Buzzing: The MLB Draft, All-Star Game festivities, still talking Tom Brady Rookie Cards, The National and more.

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1 -- MLB Draft reactions 

2 -- Not a bad Bowman find

3 -- All-Star chatter 

4 -- Talking Tom Brady Rookie Cards and more

5 -- Big Dumper is chasing history ... and here's more on Cal Raleigh

6 -- The National is on their minds

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What's Buzzing: Cal Raleigh chases history, Aaron Judge, Nick Kurtz, The National, 2025 Donruss NFL and more.

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1 -- Big Dumper is chasing history ... and here's more on Cal Raleigh

2 -- Reactions to the 2025 Donruss NFL reveal

3 -- Inside a new soccer box

4 -- Aaron Judge

5 -- Nick Kurtz

6 -- The National is on their minds

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What's Buzzing: Showing off Michael Jordan cards, new NFL and NBA pulls, The National, a big wrestling weekend and more 2025 Score chatter.

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1 -- Showing off Michael Jordan cards

2 -- Inside a new NFL box

3 -- Mosaic NBA delivers some ink

4 -- All your wrestling chatter heading into a big weekend

5 -- Talking 2025 Score NFL

6 -- The National is on their minds

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What: 2025 Panini Prizm LIV Golf cards
Arrives: Aug. 20
Box basics: One autograph per six-pack box (16 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Prizm comes to the course for the a second round with the stars of LIV Golf racking up the colorful parallels and appearing on many of those chase cards collectors have come to expect in this brand.

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What's Buzzing: Talking 2025 Score football cards, Jac, Trout, Topps Series 2, the National and still talking young pitchers.

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1 -- Talking 2025 Score NFL

2 -- Reel Big Fish

3 -- Is hobby legend Jac back?

4 -- Pondering futures for MLB pitchers

5 -- Ripping into Topps Series 2

6 -- All your National chatter

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What: 2025 Donruss football cards
Arrives: Aug. 15
Box basics: One autograph and one memorabilia card per 18-pack hobby box (18 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Donruss once again arrives for a new season with plenty of colorful inserts and parallels as it showcases today's stars while also including plenty of nods to the past, too.

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What: 2025 Panini Prizm baseball cards
Arrives: Aug. 13
Box basics:  Three autographs per 12-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Prizm drops for another year with all-time greats, future prospects and selected MLB newcomers in play here as part of the familiar formula of the past -- but without current veterans.

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What's Buzzing: Pondering the future for some new MLB pitchers, The Miz, Aaron Judge, The National and more.

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1 -- Pondering futures for MLB pitchers

2 -- The (MLB) Miz is awesome

3 -- Talking Aaron Judge

4 -- Ripping into Topps Series 2

5 -- Thoughts on a blind-bag comic ...

6 -- All your National chatter

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What's Buzzing: New Marvel Chrome pulls, inside an "insane collection," MLB All-Stars, Caitlin Clark, The National and ... investment talk?

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1 -- Highlights from some Marvel Chrome

2 -- Showing off an "insane collection"

3 -- Still talking MLB All-Stars ... and snubs

4 -- Caitlin Clark cardboard chatter

5 -- Would you?

6 -- All your National chatter

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Ichiro Suzuki’s 2001 MLB arrival didn’t just change the game on the field — he helped feed growing international demand for baseball cards via plenty of new premium brands that helped pave the way for the ultra-deluxe stuff of today.

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A legendary career and baseball journey on two continents makes its final stop this month in Cooperstown, N.Y., and the Hall of Fame and there’s a lot that can be said about that in several directions. 

Ichiro Suzuki changed the game with his arrival in MLB, eschewing the longball in favor of speed and hits — lots and lots of hits. But, “hits” are also the story of all those years when it comes to baseball cards with the prized rarities found in packs with autographs on them — or pieces of memorabilia in them — being an unstoppable force in those years. 

Of course, hits didn’t start with the Japanese star’s arrival, but many of his cards in sets alongside another now-legendary 2001 rookie, Albert Pujols, helped change the cardboard world even faster. Demand for their stuff prompted several new brands from several companies making MLB cards back then to try new things, capitalizing on their new stars who could move packs and boxes of cards -- just like they could move players around the bases and move butts into seats to watch games. One could argue that 2001 was in part a big piece in the evolution of what we see in today’s sports card landscape -- a focus on rarities with small print runs and with premium prices that weren’t like the wax paper-wrapped pocket-change treasures of not that many years before. 

Now, what’s to come here is absolutely not a definitive list of top cards — and it’s not one purely based on volatile values or one limited solely to Rookie Cards. Why? There’s a lot to choose from for Suzuki on all fronts — there could be several ways to take on this challenge. He has more than 50 different Rookie Cards between his 1993 Nippon Professional Baseball and 2001 Major League Baseball debuts (depending on how you want to argue about RC definitions) and he had roughly 500 cards in 2001 alone. Many of them are rarer cards where it is impossible to own them all thanks to small print runs and rare serial-numbered versions. 

In all, he appears on more than 19,000 different cards made over the years between NPB and MLB -- and even though his playing career ended in 2019 his cardboard career has not. He’s got a place in the game in seemingly every new baseball card set on the way and that figures to be the story for the rest of cardboard eternity. He’s not just a Hall of Famer … he’s an international icon.

Here’s a small sampling of 25 Ichiro Suzuki cards that are both fun and notable.

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What's Buzzing: MLB All-Stars (and snubs), collecting Tom Brady, Jazz Chisholm Jr. cards, The National and more.

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1 -- Talking MLB All-Stars ... and snubs

2 -- A thread back from the dead

3 -- Collecting Jazz Chisholm Jr. 

4 -- A Luis Ortiz issue?

5 -- Showing off Tom Brady cards

6 -- All your National chatter

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What's Buzzing: Showing off rare Tom Brady cards, pondering the best year for NBA cards, wondering how many "true" collectors there are and more in this Sunday edition.

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1 -- "How many true collectors are there?"

2 -- Showing off Tom Brady cards

3 -- "What's the best year in the history of basketball cards?"

4 -- Some new old baseball breaks here

5 -- Showing off Independence Day parallels

6 -- All your National chatter

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What's Buzzing: Old NBA boxes, Caitlin Clark cards, MLB chatter, The National and a pair of comic book topics.

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1 -- Still sitting on old NBA boxes?

2 -- All your MLB matters

3 -- Talking Caitlin Clark cards

4 -- Collecting Rogue & Gambit covers

5 -- What about the back covers of comics?

6 -- All your National chatter

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What's Buzzing: NBA stars on collectors' minds, MLB, The National and more in this one.

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1 -- Will Giannis end up elsewhere?

2 -- All your MLB chatter is here

3 -- The Shai thread ... 

4 -- New pulls are popping here

5 -- Talking 2025 Topps Chrome

6 -- The National section is open

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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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RETRO RECORD-HOLDER
The Card: Roger Maris 2014 Panini Classics Home Run Heroes Jerseys (/25)
The Price: $30
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: I ponied up a little bit for this one vs. my typical range for Maris mem cards since it's a rarer card, has a material (jersey/pants) swatch vs. a bat and is from a brand that packed a lot of potential for big names back in the day. Yet, at the same time, that price was a bargain. Yes, its centering is just slightly off, but otherwise it's clean -- that errant spot on the right side is part of the printed design on all cards here. It was an easy addition for a player I collect and pick off stuff for a few times a year. Those top corners are really clean on this one, which might not always be the case with those bold colors.
Grab a box right here: Nothing for this ... but MLB cards are here.

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What's Buzzing: Chrome, Dave Parker, NFL collusion, new wrestling cards, The National and signed books are today's topics.

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1 -- Talking 2025 Topps Chrome

2 -- An NFL issue?

3 -- Collectors remember Dave Parker

4 -- Wrestling cards are on their minds

5 -- Checking in on the signed books section

6 -- The National section is open as the show nears

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Like many collectors, Buzz is a fan of grading ... so here's this month's grading diary.

AS GOOD AS IT GETS
The Card: Caitlin Clark 2024-25 Panini Instant WNBA (/26,980) -- Rookie Card
The Reason Graded: I watched and waited for the most part with Caitlin Clark cards as Panini Instant stuff arrived regularly and her in-pack WNBA Rookie Cards arrived later in the year. But, when this award-winner card popped up with a clean and iconic studio photo? Well, I pretty much instantly (pun not intended as it's simply true) grabbed a 10-pack with an eye for a slab. It's in a past Buzz Buys (hit the archives) and this is the result a few months later.
The Grade: CGC 10 (Pristine)

Reality Check: This one is heavily made and should be heavily slabbed -- the number of Pristines has at least doubled just in the few weeks since I got these back from CGC -- but many won't be checking in at this top mark. I didn't slab to expect a perfect 10 but I thought this one had potential after going through my stack. Three of my 10 had solid centering and this one was first to make that cut ... with this mark I may not need to send in the other two. It's my lone Clark slab ... and it's strong enough it might stay that way just so I can say I went 1-for-1 grading here. We'll see.

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What: 2024-25 Panini Crown Royale EuroLeague basketball cards
Arrives: July 14
Box basics: One autograph and one memorabilia card per eight-card box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Panini's bringing the Kaboom! and more to international basketball collectors with this one, which includes a mix of past and present stars and plenty of variety, too.

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What's Buzzing: New pulls, Junior Caminero, The National, storage and more in this Friday edition.

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1 -- What were they buying this month?

2 -- Talking storage 

3 -- Inside some Select NFL

4 -- Talking his cards as Junior Caminero hits 20 homer plateau

5 -- MLB chatter is here

6 -- The National section

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What's Buzzing: The Miz is awesome, a sweet Bowman mega, Pete Crow-Armstrong and more in today's edition.

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1 -- The Miz is ... awesome

2 -- Bowman mega box for the win

3 -- Talking Pete Crow-Armstrong 

4 -- More MLB chatter is here

5 -- Panini is readying a massive Caitlin Clark release ... (teaser video here)

6 -- The National section

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What's Buzzing: Big things coming for Caitlin Clark collectors, Chase Burns, 2025 Topps Series 2, The National, MLB chatter and "the flood of 1/1s."

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1 -- Panini is readying a massive Caitlin Clark release ... (teaser video here)

2 -- "The flood of 1/1s"

3 -- Still talking 2025 Topps Series 2

4 -- More MLB chatter is here

5 -- Chase Burns debut reactions

6 -- The National section

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