What: 2025 Topps Tier One baseball cards
Arrives: Sept. 17
Box basics: Two autos and one Relic per four-card box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Odds: Click here
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: A new year of Tier One arrives soon with "no fluff, just hits" -- and with one base card in there each time, too, as it delivers "serious weight" as part of what Topps says is "a high-end dive into the heart of the hobby."

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Simply put, this one is all about the best of the best.

Baseball's global icon and living legend Ichiro Suzuki takes his spot in the National Baseball Hall of Fame later this month in Cooperstown, N.Y., and just one piece of all that's to come with his history-making day is Baseball America's special issue that's precision-crafted with a little bit of everything inside when it comes to Japan's greatest player and an icon among the elite in MLB history.

The Ichiro Baseball America Hall of Fame Commemorative is 50 pages of full-bleed retrospective splendor that showcases all of the memorable moments, rarely seen photographs, historic analysis, other memories and stories from yesteryear, thoughts from opposing pitchers and, of course, it's even got some baseball cards inside.

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What: 2025 Historic Autographs All-time Sets baseball cards
Arrives: May 28
Box basics: A cut auto or handwriting sample cut in every other five-pack box (20 boxes per case)
Checklist/inclusions: Click here
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Historic Autographs re-imagines iconic stars and cards from the past with new retro-styled modern ways with a checklist that's "only the best of the best."

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and break down 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: 2012 Panini Cooperstown baseball cards (hobby)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (when available) -- see other baseball boxes here

Keep reading to see what can be found here and a gallery of highlights.

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What: 2024 Historic Autographs All-time Greats baseball cards
Arrives: Aug. 7
Box basics: One cut autograph in every fourth box -- 12 four-card packs per box (20 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Historic Autographs features baseball's "greatest players of the 20th Century" in an eight-tiered set that "combines incredible designs with fantastic foil enhancements to make one of the most-attractive card sets we have ever done."

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Buzz buys a lot of stuff these days and for a few reasons, really. Sometimes it's just bargain-hunting, sometimes it's just something that strikes me. And other times it's a lot -- a group of things -- and that has happened enough lately I figured I'd try something different as a regularly appearing item. Sometimes my lots will be wins, sometimes they won't be ... but I'll let you decide. 

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A LEGENDARY FIND?
The Lot: Seventeen 1979 Topps All-time Record Holders (subset) cards
The Price: $9.99

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What: 2023 Panini Flawless baseball cards
Arrives: Jan. 24, 2024
Box basics: Seven autos, two memorabilia and one gem card per 10-card box (two boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Flawless returns with a new batch of high-end finds for superstars of the past as well as prospects and selected young stars of the present all in one spot.

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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 packs: 1984 Donruss Baseball Champions
Where to buy: Check throwback spots ... hit BlowoutCards.com for newer MLB cards

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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: 2021 Panini Diamond Kings baseball cards (hanger)
First Buzz preview: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby & FOTL)

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What: 2021 Historic Autographs Originals Triple Folders
Arrives: July 28
Box basics: One booklet card per box (eight boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Historic Autographs creates something new out of something old with the 1912 T202 Hassan Triple Folder cards serving as the inspiration.

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Do you like Buzz Breaks? Today's your day then as we launch 8 in 8 -- a series of a eight breaks of wax boxes and wax packs in as many hours today. We'll post one every hour ... this is our finale for today.

The box: 2013 Panini Cooperstown baseball cards (hobby box)
The cost: BlowoutCards.com (when available) -- see other baseball boxes here

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Do you like Buzz Breaks? Today's your day then as we launch 8 in 8 -- a series of a eight breaks of wax boxes and wax packs in as many hours today. We'll post one every hour ... this is Hour 3.

The box: 1993 UD All-Time Heroes of Baseball
The cost: Will vary ... click here for newer MLB boxes

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What: 2020 Historic Autographs Half Century
Arrives: Aug. 12
Box basics: Eight vintage card/auto booklets per box (six boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Historic Autographs turns its attention toward making booklet cards that include a vintage card and an autograph together with a Hall of Famer in every box -- and strong shots at some MLB legends.

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Knowing where to look for new items in your collection can be a challenge at times -- if you shop where many others do, you might not find rare gems and you might find plenty of things from one genre of collecting that you might not want or need.

But sometimes you might be surprised by what you can find via auction houses, which used to be the home of mostly vintage treasures. Not any more.

The 15 items you see above (click for a closer look) are from a wide array of the collecting world and they're all up for grabs right now via Crazy Uncle Auctions, a Harrison, N.Y.-based auction house.

Keep reading for a deeper look at five of them.

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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 Today: A big night on BlowoutTV, the NFL Draft continues, big pulls and more in today's edition.

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What: 2020 Topps Transcendent Collection Hall of Fame Edition baseball cards
Arrives: May 6
Box basics: 43 autographs and more per box
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Transcendent is back for another ultra-high-end run but this time it's all about Hall of Famers -- the greatest to play the game -- with a smaller lineup, some throwback inclusions and more in this release limited to just 50 cases.

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Do you like Buzz Breaks? Today's your day then as we launch 8 in 8 -- a series of a eight breaks of wax boxes and wax packs in as many hours today. We'll post one every hour ... this is Hour 7.

The box: 2012 Panini Cooperstown baseball cards (hobby)
The cost: Click here (when available)

What's inside this one? Keep reading ...

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Do you like Buzz Breaks? Today's your day then as we launch 8 in 8 -- a series of a eight breaks of wax boxes and wax packs in as many hours today. We'll post one every hour ... this is Hour 4.

The box: 2010 Topps National Chicle baseball cards (hobby box)
The cost: Will vary when found (click here when available)

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What: 2019 Historic Autographs Federal League
Arrives: July 24
Box basics: One graded original 1914/15 Cracker Jack Federal Leaguer card or one cut auto per eight-pack box (16 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Historic Autographs takes a look back at the Federal League with a mix of cut autos, buybacks, art cards and more in a limited release.

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Group breaks have been a game-changer for the card industry for several years now and from time to time Buzz will jump into a BlowoutTV break of some type and break down the results of what he landed by picking up a team. There are near-daily breaks right here with Matt on Blowout TV during weekday working hours and even more from Houdini and others over on the forum in the evening.

Now, it's time for this first break breakdown -- a spot in a 2019 Panini Diamond Kings case.

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SportKings is back and one of the surprises in store for this one is that the legendary brand will be found in blaster boxes this time around -- with a hit in every box -- without a premium price. 

This time around, it's SAGE creating the brand that stems from the 1930s, and while we'll have more details for you if you keep reading, the big key today is that there's another surprise as this one has arrived.

Blowout Cards will be giving away the contents of a 20-box case on Friday at 11 a.m. (Eastern) right here on BlowoutTV.

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What: 2018 Historic Autographs Kings Multi-sport autographs
Arrives: Dec. 28
Box basics: Two autographs per box (four boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Historic Autographs follows up its first Kings release with a new one that packs ink from legendary players from the past from baseball as well as some legends from elsewhere.

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The finest set of 1909-11 T206 baseball cards is on the market -- and it's being broken up -- this month via Dallas-based Heritage Auctions where it's expected to be a record-breaker.

"For hundreds of trading card collectors, this is the auction event of a lifetime," said Chris Ivy, director of sports collectibles for Heritage. "This auction is the vault door swinging open to reveal treasures unavailable anywhere else."

It's a lot of 520 cards that includes nine PSA 10s -- only 13 in all exist at that grade -- and nearly all of the cards in this one are the highest-graded specimens of their kind for this landmark set. More than 100 of the cards are PSA 9s and only one is graded below a PSA 7 (it's a PSA 6).

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What: 2018 Historic Autographs Originals Strip Cards
Arrives: Oct. 17
Box basics: One buyback-auto booklet per box (10 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Historic Autographs dips into some vintage ranks once again with a new way to display old cards along with autographs from some of the biggest names in the sports world from nearly a century ago.

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Depending on your age, you might not know the name Jack Smalling -- but he wrote the book on through-the-mail autograph collecting back in the day when most autographs weren't just a click away.

While The Baseball Autograph Collector's Handbook is up to its 19th edition today with addresses for more than 90 percent of known living major leaguers, coaches and umpires inside, it's the fruits of his publishing passion -- his autographs -- that are on the auction block in one single lot coming to the auction from Heritage Auctions next month.

"Many, if not most, of Smalling's greatest successes came from trails long since gone cold, but when Smalling first took up his hobby in 1962, quite a few Dead Ball Era legends still walked the Earth," said the auction listing. "And if not the players themselves, then their children or grandchildren, pleased in that pre-Internet age that somewhere, someone still remembered the man. They were all too happy to drop a cancelled check or a clipping from an old lease into the supplied self-addressed, stamped envelope in fulfillment of Smalling's request. More than a half century later, Smalling's collection of autographs numbers in the six figures."

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