What: 2024 Wild Card Splat baseball cards
Arrives: Sept. 19, 2025
Box basics: One autograph per five-card box (20 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Wild Card keeps with the encased card approach with a mix of signed and un-signed cares in this one, which as you might guess by the name, is a colorful one.

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What: 2025 Panini Boys Of Summer baseball cards
Arrives: June 25
Box basics: Three autographs and one memorabilia card per eight-card box (eight boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: This newer baseball brand from Panini America gets a sophomore season as the high-end release "offers an incredible collecting experience with stunning hits, a unique look, and an astonishing array of prospects, Stars and legends" once again.

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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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What: 2024 Leaf Electrum Multi-sport trading cards
Arrives: Aug. 30
Box basics: Three autographed cards per box (10 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf introduces a new line that meshes the world of sport with notables from pop culture all in one spot that's solely about autographs.

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What: 2024 Wild Card Five Card Draw baseball cards
Arrives: July 12
Box basics: Five encased autographed cards per box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Wild Card brings its very numbers-based presentation to the baseball diamond with five serial-numbered cards inside numbered packs that add some certainty to the chase -- every card is numbered to no more than five copies across the entire release and every box includes a 1/1 card.

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What: 2023 Leaf Exotic Multi-sport Rookies sports cards
Arrives: December
Box basics: Three autographed cards per box (10 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf runs through the jungle one more time with a release that's all about rookies -- from several sports -- and only presents autographs that are all rare cards limited to no more than five copies throughout the release.

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Do you like Buzz Breaks? Today's your day then as we launch 12 in 12 -- a series of a dozen breaks of wax boxes and wax packs in a dozen hours. We'll post one every hour all day long ... this is Hour 2.

The box: 2017 Super Break The Bar Pieces of The Past
The cost: Click here

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

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What: 2017 Panini Contenders Draft Picks baseball cards
Arrives: Oct. 4
Box basics:  Six autographs per six-pack box (12 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Panini brings Contenders back to the baseball field with an autograph in every pack and a ton of past and future MLB stars all wearing their school colors.

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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: 2017 Donruss Optic baseball cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 6
Cards per pack: 5
Cards in this box: 30
Base set completion: 
12 of 100 (12 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Ryne Sandberg, Albert Pujols, Clayton Kershaw, Josh Donaldson, Yoenis Cespedes

Rookie Cards (3) – Andrew Benintendi, Yoan Moncada, Raimel Tapia

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What: 2017 Topps Archives Signature Series Active Player Edition baseball cards
Arrives: Summer
Box basics: One encased autograph per box (20 boxes per case)
Player list: Click here to view
Order: Click here for boxes & click here for cases

What's buzz-worthy: Topps brings its buyback line to the collecting masses once again with a focus on MLB's younger stars and iconic current veterans.

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There are a few products among the Blowout Fourth of July sale that will heat things up the next 11 days -- yep, 11 -- but the first of the Firecracker deals is worth checking out simply because of the amount of star power and ink potentially found inside each and every box.

It's 2015 Panini Prizm. The price?

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It's the fourth day of May and, of course, that's got a Star Wars tie. (If you don't get it, you probably haven't seen the movies.)

As part of this holiday of sorts Topps has created the 2016 Topps Star Wars Tribute baseball set -- a series of prints and jumbo cards in the style of the memorable early Star Wars stickers made by the company way back in 1977.

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One of the challenges of collecting once you reach a certain level (either in years or cards) is how to keep yourself engaged in a hobby that can be full of obstacles.

Cost can be an obstacle. A limited number of releases including your player or team -- or scarcity of cards within those releases that are made -- can be an obstacle. A player retiring can be an obstacle. These aren't the only ones, either.

Once you have a certain number of cards for a player or a team, though, maybe it's time to consider adding to your collection in a few simple ways that are already around you. They can be just as challenging as cards, too.

Here are a few options ...

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What: 2016 Panini Diamond Kings baseball cards
Arrives: March 30
Box basics: Two autographs or memorabilia cards per 12-pack box (24 boxes per case; 12 per inner case)

What's buzz-worthy: Diamond Kings returns for another season with a heavy amount of inserts in every box and some of the biggest names in the past and present of the game.

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What: 2016 Panini Diamond Kings baseball cards
Arrives: March 30
Box basics: Two autographs or memorabilia cards per 12-pack box (24 boxes per case; 12 per inner case)

What's buzz-worthy: Diamond Kings returns for another season with a heavy amount of inserts in every box and some of the biggest names in the past and present of the game.

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Jason Dean Martin
Also Known As: @jasondeanmartin on Twitter (And everywhere else, too.)
Website: www.jasondeanmartin.weebly.com & www.beansballcardblog.com
Email: jasondeanmartin@gmail.com
Location: Pennsylvania
Work away from cards: Territory Manager for PPG Industries
Collecting since: 1987

Main focuses: Josh Fogg and anything baseball including MLB, MiLB, NCAA and USA. Also errors and variations.

Favorite players/teams: Josh Fogg, Bobby Bonilla, Bryce Harper

Current collecting projects: Josh Fogg (including cards and memorabilia), 1991 Topps errors and variations

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If you're a baseball fan, you know the comic book references were thick this year with the National League champion New York Mets.

Those things happen when you have Thor, Captain America and The Dark Knight all on one team.

But, we need to know, do you own their autographs?

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