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What's Buzzing Today: Big pulls from around the collecting world & more.

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The box: 2017 Bowman baseball cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 8
Cards per pack: 10
Cards in this box: 80
Base set completion: 
34 of 100 (34 percent)
Duplicates: 0
Prospect set completion: 
23 of 150 (15 percent)
Duplicates: 0
Chrome prospect set completion: 
16 of 150 (11 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notable players on base cards – Kris Bryant, Willson Contreras, Kyle Schwarber, Francisco Lindor, Corey Seager, Clayton Kershaw, Mookie Betts

Rookie Cards (10) – Carson Fulmer, Tyler Austin, Hunter Dozier, Jake Thompson, Gavin Cecchini, Jose DeLeon, Orlando Arcia, Jorge Alfaro, Teoscar Hernandez, Jharel Cotton

Notable Prospects (both sets) – Yu-Cheng Chang, Tetsuo Yamada, Luiz Gohara, Anderson Espinoza, Christin Stewart, Amed Rosario, Takahiro Norimoto, Luis Garcia, Stephen Gonsalves, Rafael Devers, Tyler O'Neill

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The box: 2017 Panini Contenders Draft Picks football cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby) 

Packs per box: 7
Cards per pack: 6
Cards in this box: 42
Base set completion: 
26 of 100 (26 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notable players found on base cards – Jim Brown, Russell Wilson, J.J. Watt, Ezekiel Elliott, Julio Jones, Marcus Allen, Brett Favre, Aaron Rodgers

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This probably looks like many other NBA game programs from the late 1970s and early 1980s but it's very different than other simple pieces of memorabilia picked up at a game from the past.

It's from a Washington Bullets game -- the cover showcases the visiting team in this case -- played on Oct. 26, 1984, and it's on the block now via Steiner Auctions.

Why?

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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: The NFL Draft, big NFL & NBA pulls, 2017 Bowman and a masterful custom auto card set.

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What: 2017 Topps Heritage Minor League baseball cards
Arrives: Sept. 27
Box basics: One autograph and one Relic per 18-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here to view

What's buzz-worthy: The players and teams in the minor leagues take a trip back to 1968 with this release that includes variations, rare parallels, hits and, of course, autos.

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Panini America's Instant platform will be the star of the cardboard world tonight as the NFL Draft's selections will be showcased in real time.

There will be cards -- with parallels -- for the first-rounders all sold separately as singles, but there's one way to get the No. 1 pick -- Myles Garrett -- along with all of the draft-day surprises and maybe even some of those "name" guys that slide a bit.

How? Keep reading.

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Walk softly and carry a big stick? No need.

Fans of The Walking Dead can carry "Lucille" with them anywhere they go beginning in late July with a new officially licensed ballpoint pen.

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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: With the NFL Draft tonight, here's a day of nothing but football.

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What: 2017 Donruss Elite football cards
Arrives: June 28
Box basics: Two autographs and one memorabilia card per 20-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here to view

What's buzz-worthy: Just like last year, on-card autographs will be found in every box as a hobby staple returns for another season.

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No matter what he does, Gift Ngoepe's first play for the Pittsburgh Pirates will be a historic one.

The team called him up on Wednesday -- after nine seasons in the minors -- making him the first MLB player born in Africa. You know, the entire continent.

And thanks to the World Baseball Classic and Topps he's already got a modest amount of MLB-approved cardboard for collectors to chase.

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What: 2017 Bowman High Tek baseball cards
Arrives: Aug. 23
Box basics: Four on-card autographs per 10-card box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here to view
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Topps brings the Bowman brand to the Tek world with a release that packs plenty of ink in every box and plenty of parallels as well as a new type of prospecting rainbow.

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The final checklist for 2017 Topps WWE is here and the flagship brand for wrestling fans is, in a word, stacked.

Some of the biggest autographs in WWE history are inside packs for the first time and there are a number of inclusions in the release that are unique to the brand and appear to set the stage for another update set later in the year.

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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: 2017 Bowman arrives along with nothing but baseball pulls and chatter in this edition.

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What: 2017 Topps Fear The Walking Dead Seasons 1-2 trading cards
Arrives: Now (online-exclusive)
Box basics: Two autographs per box

What's buzz-worthy: Topps' debut line for Fear The Walking Dead goes widevision for an online-only release.

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Three legendary cards in 2016 Panini National Treasures have a mistake -- and Panini America will fix them for a collector who finds one.

One is a NFL Gear Quads Laundry Tag of four legendary quarterbacks -- Peyton Manning, Dan Marino, Tom Brady and John Elway. The mistake occurred during production as the card's labeling should indicate that some of the players' tags are from player-used and not game-worn jerseys.

"We are disappointed the error occurred, but it was truly an honest mistake with no intention of trying to mislead our customers," reads a statement from the company. "All other parallel levels of these cards do contain game-worn material, and this mistake occurred because the laundry tag reservations from the player-worn jerseys were missed when routing the cards for approval. Obviously, this is something that we will be more diligent about in the future."

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There's a new phone app that allows you to turn that frown upside down, get younger or get older all with a click on a screen,

It's called FaceApp and it's a free download for iPhone users to have some fun -- and naturally this collector instantly thought of baseball cards.

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Your new can't-miss high school star to collect is here ... at least according to Sports Illustrated.

First, take a second and read the blurbs. Then go read his story.

Now, Buzz is here to let you know that Hunter Greene already has baseball cards and certified autographs that can be found in packs or added to your collection now. Heck, he's already been on cardboard so long that you just might already have his cards in your stash ... and not even know it.

How?

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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: 2013 Panini The Beach Boys
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com 

Packs per box: 24
Cards per pack: 8
Cards in this box: 194
Base set completion: 
120 of 120 (100 percent)
Duplicates: 20

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Dale Earnhardt Jr. -- NASCAR's most-popular driver -- will be retiring after this season ends.

The 42-year-old shared his plans with his team today and a news conference is set for this afternoon to talk about his decision after 18 seasons as a driver at NASCAR's highest level and more than 600 races.

The move shouldn't come as a big surprise as he was sidelined with concussion issues for much of last season but that didn't stop him from winning NASCAR's most-popular driver award voting for the 14th straight year -- the record for total wins is 16.

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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: 2016 Topps WWE Then, Now, Forever -- aka 2016 Topps WWE Series 2 -- (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)

Packs per box: 11 (10 standard packs plus one Relic pack)
Cards per pack: 7
Cards in this box: 71
Base set completion: 
44 of 100 (44 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notable names pulled on base cards: "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Brock Lesnar, John Cena, Sting, Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, "Mean" Gene Okerlund, Maryse, Mauro Ranallo (unlabeled RC)

Rookie Cards (logo only) pulled: Enzo Amore, A.J. Styles, Baron Corbin, Simon Gotch, Braun Strowman

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MLB's founding documents are hitting the auction block this spring as SCP Auctions is handling yet another historic sale.

This time, it's a 74-page hand-written artifact -- the original constitution of The National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs -- that outlines its objectives. Among them are to "encourage, foster and elevate the game of baseball, enact and enforce proper rules for the exhibition and conduct of the game, to make baseball playing respectable and honorable, to protect and promote the mutual interests of professional baseball clubs and professional baseball players and to establish and regulate the 'Baseball Championship of the United States.'"

This follows the sale of the 1857 “Laws of Base Ball” for $3.26 million one year ago today by the Laguna Niguel, Calif.-based company

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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: Who would you want to sign for Americana or Pop Century? Plus big pulls and other talkers from the boards.

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What: 2016-17 Panini Spectra basketball cards
Arrives: June 14
Box basics: Seven autograph or memorabilia cards per 10-card box (six boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: The beefy stock and colorful rainbow of Panini Spectra is back on the hardwood for another season -- with every autographed card paired with memorabilia.

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Update: The auction ended at $382,500.

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A 20-page typed speech with hand-written notes by Martin Luther King Jr. is on the auction block.

The speech was delivered on July 6, 1965, in Chicago and included what is believed to be King's first public statement of a phrase that became known very well as part of the civil rights movement, "we shall overcome." In fact, that famous phrase ends the speech and is hand-written as part of a one-page addition to the prepared comments, which have been collected and bound.

Although it is not signed, the book is expected to sell for more than $500,000 via Goldin Auctions, which notes that other original past King speech manuscripts "have been appraised in the millions" and that the owner of the "I Have a Dream" speech has turned down $5 million.

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