What: 2017 Leaf Valiant baseball cards
Arrives: November/December
Box basics: Four autographs and one graded autograph card per box (10 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf Valiant returns with a slabbed card in every box and just autographs from some of baseball's biggest young names.

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What: 2017 Leaf Perfect Game National Showcase baseball cards
Arrives: November
Box basics: 25 autographs per box (15 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf once again makes its Perfect Game release a big box with nothing but hits -- and one of the most-limited products, too, with just 99 cases made this year.

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What's Buzzing Today: Big pulls, big question, big chatter and discussions on Aaron Judge, Cody Bellinger, Bruce Maxwell, Ken Griffey Jr.'s 1989 Upper Deck Rookie Card & more.

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What: 2017 Leaf Lumber Kings hockey cards
Arrives: Nov. 10
Box basics: Four stick cards per box (10 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf sticks to the game plan that worked pretty well last year with another look back to the past with nothing but hockey sticks being the sources of memorabilia cards in this release, which promises "added themes and even more value than last year."

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What: 2017 Leaf Metal Draft baseball cards
Arrives: November
Box basics: Six on-card autographs per box (12 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf Trading Cards' Metal brand returns with a revamped "incredibly short print run" and it's "the most-packed lineup of players for any Metal baseball release ever," according to the company.

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What: 2017 Leaf Q sports cards
Arrives: Late October/early November
Box basics: Five autograph or memorabilia cards per box (four boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf Q returns with what it says "may be the single greatest effort in the history of multi-sport trading card releases" in the form of "the industry's most-comprehensive high-end multi-sport product."

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There's a new NFL star after Thursday night's season-opener -- and it's not Angry Tom.

It's Kansas City Chiefs rookie running back Kareem Hunt, who helped his team scorch the defending Super Bowl champion New England Patriots with a more-than-impressive debut in a 42-27 spanking of Tom Brady and his team. Hunt's final line? Just 17 carries for 148 yards and a touchdown -- and seven catches for 133 yards and a 75-yard score. Not bad for a third-rounder out of Toledo.

The good news? Hunt has a ton of cards for collectors to, well, hunt.

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What: 2017 Leaf Greatest Hits baseball cards
Arrives: November/December
Box basics: Four graded or encased buyback cards and one 1990 Leaf Greatest Hits buyback per box (three boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: This Leaf high-end buyback brand includes some of the greatest hits in all of baseball card history along with stamped buybacks from the iconic 1990 set.

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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: J.D. Martinez and Robbie Ray have big nights, Dak Prescott's hot Prizm parallel, Tim Tebow rainbows and plenty more.

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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: Looking back at the 1990s, big pulls & more in this holiday weekend.

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What: 2017 Leaf Metal Sports Heroes trading cards
Arrives: October
Box basics: Five autographs per box (12 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf puts some of the biggest names from the sports world all in the same box, gives it a Metal finish and two more autographs per box vs. last year's non-metal release while also guaranteeing of ink from either Floyd Mayweather, Conor McGregor or Lionel Messi in every case.

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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: Big pulls from the card world, big concerns in comic world & more.

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What: 2017 Leaf Pop Century Signed Photograph Update Edition
Arrives: Late September
Box basics: One autographed 8-by-10 photo per box (12 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf's latest autograph product for pop culture arrives with certified autographed photos from the biggest names in Hollywood as well as big names from elsewhere.

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What: 2017 Leaf Valiant Pre-production Proof football cards
Arrives: Tomorrow (Aug. 22)
Box basics: Three encased 1/1 proof cards per box

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf Valiant gets a preview before its Sept. 1 arrival with this release of unsigned proof cards for the product.

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Jerry Lewis was more than a comedian, but that's where he made his mark first -- well before he was remembered for his charitable efforts.

After he was The Nutty Professor he helped raise more than $2 billion in Labor Day marathons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association -- just part of his life's story that included decades in entertainment.

But the star who died at age 91 this weekend was a star found on cardboard in recent years, too.

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With Giancarlo Stanton's six homers in his last six games, he's helped everybody re-focus on players who aren't those two rookies with all those home runs and he only needs two homers in his next two names to tie a major-league record.

The Miami Marlins slugger has an MLB-leading 44 homers on the year -- a pace that's actually right with Roger Maris' pace in 1961 -- and that's a career-high as well as a Marlins franchise record with plenty of games still left to play. (Yet, ironically, Stanton reportedly just cleared waivers -- so some of those games left could come in a different uniform.)

But that's not the only enigma that is Stanton, and it's something that you can see on his earliest cards like this one from 2008 Donruss Elite Extra Edition when you compare them to today. 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 a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Nothing but breaks in today's edition -- check 'em out.

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What: 2017 ITG Superlative hockey cards
Arrives: Oct. 6
Box basics: Four autographs or memorabilia cards per box (12 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf's newest ITG release is about nothing but hits with some of the biggest names in hockey history.

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If you hadn’t noticed, there are a number of boxes with discounted prices this weekend and for the next week or so over on the mothership and they were dramatic enough that Buzz had to sit down and ponder the possibilities in many of them.

So much so here's another of a few "picks" to come in the next few days.

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You'll have to wait until 2018 for his official Rookie Cards, but, don't worry, he's got plenty you can collect for now.

His name is Rafael Devers and he's also got six home runs in his first 62 at-bats for the Boston Red Sox and, most importantly, three of those have come in his last two games against the New York Yankees.

The 20-year-old third baseman is hitting .339 with 12 RBI, 11 runs and a stolen base in his first 16 games -- and he's got to be among the league leaders in pre-RC cardboard, too.

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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: Big pulls & big (fake?) autograph finds to start a new week.

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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: Big breaks, big questions and a big Hall of Fame acquisition.

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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: Supplies vs. wax, NBA pulls, opening that last box, sketch card controversy, Mayweather vs. McGregor & more.

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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: Retro and new rips, big questions and a collector's best pull.

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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: Big breaks, Pop Century pulls, Darren Daulton, grading cards, damaged cards & more.

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