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: Big baseball breaks, estate planning and Upper Deck Ice.

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They may not be big-leaguers just yet, but the look and feel of the cards found in 2016 Topps Pro Debut, which made it debut today, are MLB-caliber while also including things you definitely won't see in the traditional baseball releases.

And that's a good thing for collectors.

The Fragments of the Farm Relics once again bring unusual pieces to cardboard. Need evidence? See the card above.

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Annie Savoy, Bobby, Crash Davis, Jimmy, Larry Hockett, Millie, Ebby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh, Tony and Bull Durham creator Ron Shelton.

Those are the Durham autographs set to arrive in 2016 Topps Archives when it arrives on June 1, which is one week from today.

For those not familiar with the characters of the memorable baseball film, that's all of the main stars -- Susan Sarandon, Kevin Costner, Tim Robbins, Robert Wuhl, Jenny Robertson and a few others who helped bring the film to life.

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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: Two big Heritage blasters (again), The National, struggling pitchers and two Panini America breaks.

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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 Finest baseball cards (mini box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 6
Cards per pack: 5
Cards in this box: 30
Base set completion: 
22 of 100 (22 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notable players on base cards – Carlos Correa, David Ortiz, Joc Pederson, Josh Donaldson, Yu Darvish, Bryce Harper

Rookie Cards (3) – Kyle Schwarber, Corey Seager, Peter O'Brien

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He's been a legendary hitter in MLB since arriving in a Seattle Mariners uniform back in 2001, and he's now 42 years old and on a tear with 10 hits in his last three games for the Miami Marlins.

He's Ichiro Suzuki and he's just 40 hits away from the 3,000 Hit Club as a major-leaguer. (Throw on 1,434 hits in Japan and, well, that's a career mark even Pete Rose should appreciate.)

Even if you're a deep-pocketed collector, chasing Ichiro cardboard isn't easy. He's been in high demand since his legendary Rookie of the Year/MVP season and there's plenty of cardboard from that year alone. There's also been plenty since. And there are also plenty of collectors from around the world who are watching his cardboard just as intently as they are watching the box scores right now.

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The last time Stephen Strasburg took to the mound for the Washington Nationals and his team did not win was late last season. The last time Strasburg lost? That's last season, too.

And the last time collectors seemed to truly care about his cardboard? ... Arguably that might have been about six years ago.

Don't look now, but the guy who owned the hobby in the summer of 2010 and owned the Washington Nationals' hobby dollars (at least for a while) until some guy named Bryce Harper showed up just might be on the rebound and a compelling buy as a successful 2016 season builds.

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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: Nomar Mazara's potential, a trip to the Museum, Ghostbusters breaks, another legendary blaster and retro NBA breaks.

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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: Busting early Topps Heritage, big NBA breaks, Steven Adams takes a hit, Johnny Manziel screws up again and ... Babe Ruth in a blaster box?

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Update: The packs are now live and on sale. 

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Preacher debuted on Sunday night and the AMC series' trading cards will apparently debut today from Topps as part of a pack program via the Topps Now platform.

The cards have not yet been revealed or put on sale today, but the structure for the program can be seen here. The company tweeted about the series on Sunday night, teasing a forthcoming announcement, which comes on the heels of its recent deal to acquire the trading card rights to another AMC staple, The Walking Dead, which also was based on a long-running comic.

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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: 2015 Topps Gypsy Queen baseball cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)

Packs per box: 8
Cards per pack: 6
Cards in this box: 48
Base set completion: 
35 of 300 (12 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notable players on base cards – Willie McCovey, David Price, Matt Harvey, Greg Maddux, Frank Thomas, Ozzie Smith, Mark McGwire

Rookie Cards (3) – Joc Pederson, Rusney Castillo, Mike Foltynewicz

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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: Big blasters, big pulls & big names on this Sunday afternoon.

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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 UFC Top of the Class
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 1
Cards per pack: 5
Cards in this box: 5
Base set completion: 
1 of 62 (2 percent)
Duplicates: 0

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What: 2016 Topps The Walking Dead Season 5 trading cards
Arrives: Oct. 5
Box basics: Two hits per 24-pack box (eight boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Topps' debut line for The Walking Dead picks up where Cryptozoic left off with a hobby-only release jam-packed with base cards, parallels, hits and, of course, some gore.

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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: A supply savior, big maildays, Bowman Lucky & analyzing pitchers.

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He's been an All-Star, he's been an ace and he's been a bit overlooked on cardboard.

But that last part could be changing soon for Chris Sale.

With his third complete game of the year Thursday night, the Chicago White Sox ace became the first pitcher in nearly a decade to start the season 9-0 after nine starts -- and he's only the fourth pitcher to reach the mark that fast since 1950. He's also off to the second-best start in franchise history with the record being a 12-0 run by Eddie Cicotte way back in 1919.

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If you hadn't heard, BlowoutTV is breaking a box of 1973 Topps baseball cards live on Friday night.

Last night, the randomization of 660 spots to determine who got each card in the set -- no matter how many show up in the box -- took place. The key spot, card No. 615 aka the Rookie Card of Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt, randomly went to one of five winners who retweeted a Blowout contest.

Who got the card? Nobody yet ... so keep reading.

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The first Minor League Baseball set of the year from Topps arrives next week in the form of 2016 Topps Pro Debut, which will include two autographs and two Relics per box. 

There should be some surprises in store (based on our First Buzz preview from December) and some of that mystery disappeared on Wednesday with the release of the final checklist for the product.

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This year's edition of Topps Finest baseball cards may have moved to a non-traditional distribution method, but one day before its official release date there's something very traditional happening.

There are already single cards available on eBay.

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An aspiring UFC fighter appearing on an MMA card for the first time might get some of the attention in packs of 2016 Topps UFC Top of the Class, but there are plenty of other big names to be found in Topps' latest release.

All you have to do is look at a checklist -- or on eBay.

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This mystery is solved.

Topps revealed the player for the 2015 Topps Tribute Mystery Redemption on Tuesday and it's Francisco Lindor.

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The five winners have been selected from the Blowout Cards retweet contest that will give each of them one of 660 spots in a group-break of this 1973 Topps baseball wax box.

Did you miss out on it? (Check out the story from last week with all the details right here.)

If you were in ... keep reading to see if you won.

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Fans of Doctor Who have a shot at three free Topps promo cards if they purchase a toy replica of a memorable item from the 12th season of the show.

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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: Showing off Superfractors, a non-sports show haul, retro rips and the Rougned Odor-Jose Bautista feud.

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Stipe Miocic and Cris Cyborg were two of the headline-grabbers after Saturday night's UFC 198 card and there is good news for MMA fans who want to collect.

They've both got readily available cardboard.

Miocic, the new UFC heavyweight champ, took down Fabricio Werdum with a single punch in the first round. He can be found on more than 200 different MMA trading cards with more than 80 of those featuring a certified autograph. His earliest autographs can be found in Topps' UFC releases from 2012, while his newest are in 2016 Topps UFC Top of the Class, which arrived last week.

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