What: 2023 Topps Transcendent Collection baseball cards
Arrives: March 27, 2024
Box basics: 50-plus autographs and more per box
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What's buzz-worthy: Transcendent returns with a larger run this time -- 190 boxes (up from 99) -- and with the familiar lineup of high-end inclusions mixed up in a new way.

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What: 2024 Topps Sterling baseball cards
Arrives: April 3
Box basics: Two autographed Relics or one auto Relic and one 1/1 Relic per box (four boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Odds: Click here
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What's buzz-worthy: Topps Sterling hits to the field for a new season with some new high-end inclusions and plenty of star power from today's game with 1/1s typically found in every case.

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What's Buzzing: Talking MLB and NBA, Ronald Acuña Jr., the Dylan Cease deal, 2024 Topps and more.

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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: 2023 Topps Series 1 baseball cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com
First Buzz preview & checklist: Click here

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What: 2024 Topps Big League baseball cards
Arrives: March 27
Box basics: Eighteen eight-card packs per hobby box (TBD -- likely 20 -- per case)
Checklist: Click here
Odds: Click here
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What's buzz-worthy: Big League will return for a second season with the tiered approach that arrived for the first time last year. For now, all that's been revealed are the odds and a checklist (both above).

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The box: 2023 Topps Stadium Club baseball cards (blaster)
First Buzz preview, odds & checklist: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)

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With these Ticket Stud or Ticket Dud stories I'm turning just a tiny bit of that energy just a few degrees away from cards (we'll still have plenty of them here) for a different kind of cardboard. What am I doing? Simple ... this is an occasional dip into some random ticket lots -- a show and tell showing something small with a story.

This time? A pair of players who swapped teams on some colorful spring training tickets from the past.

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The pack: 2022 Donruss baseball cards (hanger)
First Buzz preview & checklist: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for a couple formats)

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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: Ronald Acuña Jr., 2024 Topps, fake cards, Elite WWE and "Galactics are overrated."

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The box: 2023 Topps Stadium Club baseball cards (blaster)
First Buzz preview, odds & checklist: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)

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What: 2023 Topps Luminaries baseball cards
Arrives: Feb. 7, 2024
Box basics: One autograph or autographed Relic card per box (12 boxes per case)
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What's buzz-worthy: This high-end line returns for a seventh campaign for MLB with every card a hit limited to no more than 15 copies and with a number of outrageous booklet cards in the mix.

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What: 2023 Topps Diamond Icons baseball cards
Arrives: February 2024
Box basics: Seven autographed cards, two auto-Relic cards and one Relic per 10-card box (two boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
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What's buzz-worthy: "One of the most-treasured releases every year from Topps" is back once again with the same format as previous years but with new players and plenty of hits -- in fact, it's once again nothing but hits.

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The box: 2020 Topps Update baseball cards (blaster)
First Buzz preview with checklist/SPs/more: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

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The box: 2023 Topps Allen & Ginter baseball cards
First Buzz preview & checklist: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)

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The box: 2023 Topps Archives baseball cards (blaster)
First Buzz preview & checklist: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

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What: 2024 Onyx Baseball Clubhouse Lumber Collection
Arrives: Feb. 16
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 among the possible finds.

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The box: 2021 Topps Update baseball cards (hanger)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby & jumbo)
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What: 2023 Topps World Baseball Classic baseball cards
Arrives: Dec. 20
Box basics: One autograph or autographed Relic per 10-card box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Odds: Click here
Order: Click here (when available)

What's buzz-worthy: The World Baseball Classic helped start the baseball year and now it's one of the releases that will help close out the cardboard year, too

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What: 2023 Bowman's Best baseball cards
Arrives: Jan. 17, 2024
Box basics: Four autographs (two per mini-box) per 12-pack box (eight boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Odds: Click here
Order: Click here (when available)

What's buzz-worthy: Bowman's Best arrives for another year with its familiar format and plenty of colorful cardboard for fans of rookies and prospects.

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The box: 2021 Bowman baseball cards (blaster box)
First Buzz preview & Checklist: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for a few formats)

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What: 2023 Topps Xpectations baseball cards
Arrives: Dec. 14
Box basics: Two autographs per seven-card box (TBD boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Odds: TBD
Order: Click here (when available)

What's buzz-worthy: An obscure NBA release of the early 2000s gets a run on the baseball diamond as a premium-box brand initially sold online beginning later this week with "an emphasis on rookie talent and high-quality card construction."

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What: 2022 Super Glow Update Jumbo Edition
Arrives: Dec. 27, 2023
Box basics: Two autographs per six-pack box (five boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Super Break's revisiting of its original release for a late update set gets a second run with a ton of big names among possible finds from all around the sports world in both the pro and college ranks.

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What: 2024 Leaf Sports Heroes trading cards
Arrives: January
Box basics: Three "premium signatures" per box (20 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Sports Heroes returns to the Leaf lineup with a mix of elite names from all around the sports world all arriving as Metal autographs in a number of shades.

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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: MLB's got two new MVPs, Joe Burrow, Jim Harbaugh, Black November, completing a set from 1890 and more.

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If you hadn't noticed, there are a number of boxes with discounted prices right now right here as the new wave of Blowout Cards' Black November sales is here

Many of the discounts were dramatic enough that Buzz once again had to ponder the possibilities in many of the boxes and cases -- and here are five that caught this collector’s eye ... and there's far more that just might suit your tastes in the big sale.

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BLACK IN NOVEMBER
2021 Topps Allen & Ginter X Baseball Box
Most boxes in this wave of picks are ones I have personally opened in the past, but this one is the lone exception for Allen & Ginter X as in it's the only one that I missed landing since 2018. Why? I actually don't remember -- it was likely timing of arrival -- but Ginter X is a pretty safe buy as there's an autograph in every box with the ink here typically trending rarer than the standard stuff. Almost everything here is in the trademark black take on the Ginter designs and among the autos this time are Aaron Judge, Chipper Jones, Corey Seager, Johnny Bench, Fernando Tatis Jr., Juan Soto, Mike Trout, Pete Alonso, Ronald Acuña Jr., Ryne Sandberg, Vladdy Sr. and Vladdy Jr. and more from the MLB realm. From beyond baseball, there's Bobby Moynihan, Jose Andrés, Rocky Bleier, Randall Cunnignham, Sara Spain and Trevor Lawrence to start. Again, regular Ginter doesn't include ink every time and these boxes do ... and some years of X could statistically deliver two.

Keep reading for a few more boxes you should consider (and are likely to end up in Buzz's cart).

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