What: 2022 Panini Capstone baseball cards
Arrives: Dec. 28
Box basics: Two autos and two mem cards per 12-pack box (16 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: A new brand in the Panini portfolio arrives with plenty of parallels, plenty of rookies and some nods to peak performance.

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What: 2022 Topps Garbage Pail Kids X MLB
Arrives: Now via Topps.com
Box basics: One chase card per six-card pack ... or the same format in a five-pack box
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here (when available)

What's buzz-worthy: The Garbage Pail Kids have been taken over by the stars of Major League Baseball in a new online release that's a twist on, well, everything.

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What: 2022 Topps X Bobby Witt Jr. Crown Collection baseball cards
Arrives: Live now via Topps
Pack basics: 25 cards per pack (hits every other box)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Via Topps.com; Click here (when available)

What's buzz-worthy: Bobby Witt Jr. gets to curate his own baseball card set that has plenty of big-leaguers, some family ties and more inside every box.

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The box: 2022 Topps Chrome baseball cards (hobby box)
First Buzz preview & checklist: Click here
Where to buy: Click here (a few formats)

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What: 2022 Panini Mosaic Choice baseball cards
Arrives: Nov. 4
Box basics:  Two autographs per eight-card box (20 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Mosaic's Choice box may arrive first for this one with a smaller format packing two autos every time as well as plenty of color for the stars of MLB.

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The box: 2022 Topps Fire baseball cards (hobby box)
Checklist: Click here
Where to buy: Initially at Target (here when available)

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The box: 2021 Topps Heritage Minor League baseball cards (hobby box)
First Buzz preview & checklist: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

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The box: 2022 Topps Clearly Authentic baseball cards
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Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

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What: 2022 Topps 3D baseball cards
Arrives: Today via Topps.com
Box basics: Eight cards per pack
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here (when available)

What's buzz-worthy: Topps On Demand's annual Topps 3D baseball card set is live today (at the moment) but we have the basics for this popular release that should arrive in collectors' hands soon.

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The box: 2022 Topps baseball cards (hobby factory set)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com for this and other formats

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What: 2022 Panini Three & Two baseball cards
Arrives: Sept. 30
Box basics: One slabbed auto card and one slabbed mem card per five-card box (10 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: This one is dubbed a "release that aims to deliver numerous autographs and memorabilia from today’s top stars and prospects" by Panini America with "autograph content from the who’s who of the baseball world."

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What: 2022 Topps Finest Flashbacks baseball cards
Arrives: Aug. 22 (582 Montgomery Club presale) via Topps.com
Box basics: One Refractor per box
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here (when available)

What's buzz-worthy: This one arrives once again with a throwback look but today's players with ink and more to be found for a number of veterans and newcomers, too.

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What: 2022 Topps Diamond Icons baseball cards
Arrives: Aug. 17
Box basics: Seven auto cards, two auto-Relic cards and one Relic per 10-card box (four boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: "One of the Crown Jewels in the Topps trading card collection" is back once again with the same format as previous years but with new players and plenty of hits -- in fact, nothing but hits.

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What: 2022 Topps Derek Jeter Call Of The Captain baseball cards
Arrives: Now via Topps.com
Box basics: One autograph or Relic per 15-card pack
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here (when available)

What's buzz-worthy: The New York Yankees icon teams up with Topps once again for a 50-card set that includes nods to players of the past as well as the present with Jeter hits also in the chase.

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The pack: 2021 Bowman First Edition baseball cards
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (boxes)

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The boxes: 2022 Topps Series 1 baseball cards (two hangers)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com
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The boxes: 2022 Topps Series 1 baseball cards (two hangers)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com
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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: New pulls, The National, "vintage" chatter, possible Hall of Famers and NFL guys who "ruined their careers."

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The box: 2022 Topps Pristine baseball cards
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com
First Buzz preview/checklist: Click here

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The box: 2022 Topps Series 1 baseball cards (hanger box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com
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The box: 2022 Topps Gypsy Queen baseball cards (blaster box)
First Buzz preview: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)

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What: 2022 Panini Chronicles baseball cards
Arrives: Aug. 24
Box basics:  Three autographs and one memorabilia card per six-pack box (16 boxes per case) ... FOTL boxes will guarantee same but with one Orange Obsidian auto guaranteed along with one Orange Optichrome parallel (16 per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Panini's all-in-one brand hit the diamond again with some familiar sets as well as some new ones all under one lid.

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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 ...

BETTER THAN LAST TIME ...
The Card: Ja Morant 2019-20 Panini Chronicles Luminance #165 -- Rookie Card
The Reason Graded: Somewhere in a past item in this series there's a Pink parallel of this cool card buried in a post as it was one of only a few bummers I've had with a low mark -- one that was too low for my taste as I had apparently missed a rough edge. This time? Well, this was the one I didn't send in back then and that's because I thought it had an edge spot that I thought might nix a top grade ... but I was wrong again. With this card having an iconic photo -- one that makes it easily his best RC to me (I'm merely a casual NBA ripper) -- I threw it in a bulk sub to see how I'd do. It's an absolutely epic photo ... even though it was a missed dunk.
The Grade: CSG 10

Reality Check: This is a card with a pretty big volume graded -- and a good chunk of those checking in lower than mine. All in all, it's a win that takes away the sting from last time.

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The box: 2022 Topps Series 1 baseball cards (hanger box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com
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National Baseball Card Day is going global ... and it's going beyond baseball.

Topps revealed on Wednesday that Aug. 6 will be International Trading Card Day in hobby shops around the world with Major League Baseball stars in play along with UEFA Champions League soccer stars and even the Garbage Pail Kids on tap.

What will it mean? Keep reading ...

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