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: Looking back at past sales, debating the appeal of some parallels, what's the iconic wrestling card and more in today's edition.

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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: Mike Trout's Superfractor sale still has them talking, changes for grading fans and breaks lead the way in today's edition.

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Other versions of this card were record-breakers at auction ... could this one retake the throne?

It's the Mike Trout 2009 Bowman Chrome Draft Picks 1/1 Superfractor autograph and it will open the next Goldin Auctions event as auction No. 1 with an opening bid of $1 million, the auction house teased on Thursday.

How soon? Very soon -- the card will appear in an auction set to open next week on July 28.

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There are parts of the collecting world simply off the radar for many of us because we're priced out -- cards that are so pricey that we're talking new car territory at times.

One of those cards making eBay headlines of late is the 2009 Bowman Chrome Draft Mike Trout autograph in all of its various rainbow incarnations.

The card above reportedly sold for $15,600 in March and it's not alone as a jaw-dropper. Graded non-Refractors have reportedly gone for as much as $4,999 just last week and raw copies have reportedly topped $3,000. These crazy auctions are not alone as there have been plenty of these cards sold.

The Superfractor was pulled long ago, too, but it can be yours for a price.

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Mike Trout is among MLB's active elite and his first standard Bowman Chrome autograph is topped by only one card in the Chrome world -- a much-rarer Albert Pujols 2001 auto limited to only 500 copies.

So, naturally, one question comes to mind seeing this Refractor parallel of Trout's debut card, which is on eBay right now. Just how much can this sell for?

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