Have you seen the latest crazy items on eBay? If not, you just might see some of those here every week as we're launching a weekly version of our eBay Buzz pieces that pop up from time to time. We’ll spotlight some items that have a story or just wow us with how much interest it might have — and we’re not just talking baseball cards, either.

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LIVING IN AMERICA -- HUGE TOPPS LIVING SET INTEREST
The Item: 2018 Topps Living No. 6 Nick Markakis
The Price: $224.51 so far (after 22 bids) -- see what it's up to now
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: The market for 2018 Topps Living Set cards is going a little wonky for some players on eBay with the lesser-knowns and lower-volume cards from earlier weeks like this one commanding way more than you might think. Markakis sold only 2,678 copies. It shows that the interest is there from set collectors who must have it all. On the flip side, guys like Shohei Ohtani sold more than 20,000 copies and Ronald Acuna more than doubled that. Ohtani has been a steady seller for some who have opted to get theirs graded but demand for Topps Living isn't just living it's thriving right now.
Similar Pieces: Click here for more 2018 Topps Living
The BlowoutCards.com Hunt: Click here for 2018 MLB cards

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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 1.

The box: Arizona Diamondbacks Authentics Mystery Cap Box
The cost: $30 (via MLB Auctions)

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

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I've collected for decades -- both cardboard and beyond with plenty of autographs and game-used memorabilia in my stash -- but my biggest Black Friday find this year was one that I couldn't have topped if I had tried.

(Well, at least on my budget.)

It's my first full game-used NFL item and it comes with a pretty strong story but without my having to pay a premium price to go with it. How? It all came down to doing some research.

For a few months now I had been obsessing about finding a game-used NFL football for the heck of it -- a whim, really -- simply finding any ball on the cheap yet with some semblance of ironclad authentication. Better than that would be a ball with those attributes and also with some type of tie to what I collect, which really isn't any one particular NFL team or player but instead my school and many of its recent stars, the Alabama Crimson Tide.

Thanks to Fanatics' business deal with its hometown Jacksonville Jaguars, the ball you see above is a reality in my collection and it came on the cheap for what it really is. That's thanks in part to the Getty Images app that anyone can download on their phone -- it's a free tool that any game-used memorabilia collector must have.

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What's rarer than the rarified air of a pair of Michael Jordan game-used shoes?

A pair of Michael Jordan game-used Converse shoes -- and the latest pair of shoes from the 1984 Olympics to sell via SCP Auctions went for nearly six-figures at auction following a record-setting sale earlier this year.  Continue reading →

A number of high-end and truly historic baseball items are leading the way in the latest Lelands Masters Auction.

What you see above? A 1962 Topps first series cello box.

It includes 36 packs that originally cost buyers $3.60 if they cleared out the box. It's been inspected, authenticated and documented by Baseball Card Exchange and includes a number of packs with stars showing, including four showing Stan Musial and then appearances by Sandy Koufax, Ernie Banks, Eddie Mathews, Brooks Robinson and a number of leaders cards.

Bidding currently sits at $48,717 after just eight bids -- and it's not even close to the biggest item in the sale.

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If there's a "Butterfly Effect" in hobby history  -- you know, a small thing that can go on to have a large impact -- it just might be an iconic 1979 Coca-Cola commercial.

It features Pittsburgh Steelers star "Mean" Joe Greene and a kid who offers him his bottle after a tough game. After Greene accepts, he throws his jersey to the kid and millions who watched -- it aired during Super Bowl XIV, which was the third most-watched game ever at the time -- just might have been suddenly interested in collecting game-used jerseys. Maybe.

But why are we talking about them today? The dynamic duo will be reunited at an upcoming signing in Pittsburgh.

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What: 2017 Onyx Baseball Clubhouse Lumber Edition
Arrives: Late September/early October
Box basics: One autographed or game-used bat per box

What's buzz-worthy: This MLBPA-approved product arrives once again from Onyx Authenticated and includes bats from top young names as well as some established veterans -- a lineup that includes Aaron Judge, Mike Trout, Rafael Devers and Miguel Sano to name a few.

Keep reading for more info, including a full checklist.

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Update: The jersey sold for $45,578.40 after eight bids.

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How priceless are the pinstripes of the hottest New York Yankee?

We'll find out soon as the game-used jersey worn during Aaron Judge's first career grand slam from May 28 is on the auction block.

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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: Pondering game-used vs. player-worn and other hobby questions.

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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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Emmitt Smith's memorabilia cards found in boxes of 2016 Panini Flawless football cards arriving today will include an added piece of authentication and information unique to his cards thanks to a new partnership between Panini and his company, PROVA Group.

Each card will have a SmarTag that will tell the owner what jersey the piece came from as part of a database linked to a smartphone app.

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We can hear it now across the office cafeteria ...

"Hey, Lumbergh, you've got something on your tie."

"That's Yankee Stadium dirt, Peter."

It could become a reality soon thanks to Steiner Sports, which has taken game-used to a new area with material from the stadium world to the office space.

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Sometimes there pieces of game-used baseball memorabilia that don't get stashed away as museum-caliber items in private collections or chopped up to make memorabilia cards for our packs of cards.

Poke around online and you can find plaques and other unusual -- but usable -- items that include game-used. Wallets and coasters, for example, have been made with gamer material as part of the mix, but just like cards those novelties that have recently gone high-end and the bat knob you see here is proof.

What is it?

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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 five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Big pulls and breaks, White Sox garage sale and college football bowl chatter.

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Leaf Trading Cards' next high-end hockey brand arrives later this month and it includes memorabilia from some of the biggest names in the history of the game.

It's 2016 Leaf Lumber Kings and it is set to arrive on Dec. 23 and to hold hockey fans over the company teased a number of its high-end inclusions online on Thursday.

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What: 2016 Onyx Baseball Premiere Gear Collection
Arrives: Dec. 6
Box basics: One autographed or game-used premium item per box

What's buzz-worthy: Only 100 sealed boxes will be made for this one, which includes game-used or autographed memorabilia pieces from some of the top names in the game -- and promising prospects, too.

Keep reading for more info, including a checklist.

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Steiner Sports is jumping on a trend of the last few years with one of its newest promotion.

It's the Ultimate Yankee Fan Box, and, while it's not a subscription-based boxed memorabilia offering like LootCrate, it's an interesting one to consider for fans of the New York Yankees or game-used and autographed memorabilia in general.

So, what's guaranteed inside the 10-item box for $299.99?

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There's still plenty of time on the clock before the Nov. 11 arrival of 2016-17 Leaf Ultimate hockey, but that's just more time to appreciate some of its inclusions.

Some pretty timeless inclusions.

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What: 2015-16 Panini Immaculate Collection basketball cards
Arrives: Aug. 24
Box basics:  Five autographs or memorabilia cards per six-card box (five boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Immaculate returns for another season with many of the features collectors have come to expect and some new takes on game-used memorabilia cards we've seen in the line before.

Keep reading for more info and a full gallery of images released so far.

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The auction for Jim Craig's memorabilia from the epic 1980 "Miracle on Ice" game is winding down, but the prices are definitely on the rise before the sale closes on Friday evening.

How hot? Three items from the Lelands.com sale have topped the $190,000 mark so far with his Olympic gold medal leading the way at $259,374.25 after 11 bids.

It's also quite possible that other items from the 17-piece collection could reach into six-figures.

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It seems dirt is everywhere you look if you're a baseball collector shopping the game-used sections of websites and MLB Auctions.

You can buy game-used baseballs that were a pitch in the dirt. You can buy dirt holiday ornaments and dirt keychains. You can buy simple vials of dirt with labels noting the stadium. You can buy dirt coasters. You can buy framed game-used displays that include a dirt capsule along with other pieces. You can buy simpler (and cheaper) no-frills items that showcase dirt. The best pieces, of course, are dirt-covered game-used uniforms.

But that's not all -- at least if you're a fan of two teams. It's time for something really different there.

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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 five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Showing off barrels, big pulls, best & worst designs and NSCC tips.

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Update: Lelands has updated its posting to say the jersey is from that game, but likely worn before the fight.

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It's one of the most-memorable -- and probably most-forgettable -- moments in Washington Nationals history all at once and the game-used jersey of the team's biggest star can be yours.

The jersey Bryce Harper wore when he was choked by teammate Jonathan Papelbon during a game last Sept. 27 is on the auction block via Lelands.

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Sometimes you just have to let the images speak for themselves.

Check out this gallery of images -- new additions to a Blowout forum collection thread that Buzz included in yesterday's Board Buzz.

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Three years ago, the New York Mets privately sold a group of game-used jerseys from its first game following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The biggest jersey of them all has been re-sold -- so it can be displayed in public.

Two minority owners of the team paid $365,000 for the jersey worn by Mike Piazza during that memorable game so it can be displayed at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, the Baseball Hall of Fame or the Mets museum at CitiField.

The jersey had been put up for sale via Goldin Auctions, which entertained offers to end an auction for the jersey early only on the condition it be displayed. The jersey's story landed it on the back cover of the New York Daily News today.

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