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What's Buzzing: Vintage cardboard, 2015 Topps Strata, penmanship & more.

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What: 2015 Leaf SportKings trading cards
Arrives: January 2016
Box basics: One autograph, one memorabilia card, four base cards and one mini per box.

What's buzz-worthy: SportKings returns with a new mix of cards that includes numbered autographed parallels and buyback autographs for stars throughout the sports world (and even a few from elsewhere) on the famed design from the 1930s.

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If you've watched any NFL games this season, you've likely heard the word "concussion" many times as the league has implemented new tests on players to help prevent future problems by assessing the here and now immediately following a hard hit.

On Christmas Day, a film about the issue of concussions in football called Concussion opens in theaters. You've probably seen the commercials for the film during NFL games.

Will Smith stars as Dr. Bennet Omalu, who discovered the degenerative brain disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. It's a real-life issue that has affected more than 80 former players -- many you've seen on football cards and might have collected. The movie is an important one and Sports Illustrated has Smith on its cover this week to discuss the movie.

Is it the first time a celebrity has appeared on the cover of the highly collectable sports magazine?

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Heritage Auctions' sale of a PSA 8 Mickey Mantle 1952 Topps card set another record for the card in its condition this week.

"The 1952 Topps Mantle rookie is a truly transcendent piece of Americana," said Chris Ivy, the Director of Sports Auctions at Heritage. "It looms in the collective American imagination like a copy of Action Comics #1, an inverted Jenny stamp or an Abe Lincoln autograph. You don't have to collect baseball cards to recognize it, so thoroughly is it woven into the national consciousness."

So, how much for the icon of all post-war baseball card icons?

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With Bowman Draft officially arriving tomorrow, eBay will undoubtedly be buzzing with the newest can't-miss future stars' first MLB cards.

But Bowman's not just a big deal for high-grade Chromes and Superfractors. Vintage Bowman in top grade -- like this 1954 Bowman Mickey Mantle -- can generate some looks, too.

This card, in its grade, is a 1/1 specimen. It's a card that can give any Superfractor a run for its graded money without any of those golden swirls or a dollop of autograph ink.

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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: This one includes perhaps the craziest case break ever recorded ... where nearly every card in the case is a case hit.

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What: 2015 Historic Autographs Casey's Juggernaut Originals
Arrives: Dec. 9
Box basics: One PSA-encapsulated vintage baseball card and cut autograph combo display per box.

What's buzz-worthy: The New York Yankees dominated MLB from 1948 to 1955 with five consecutive World Series victories within that seven-year span for manager Casey Stengel -- this product focuses on player and cards from that era. Oh, and there are five 1951 Bowman Mickey Mantle Rookie Cards inside this product, which is comprised of only PSA-authenticated autographs and cards inside a Historic Autographs display.

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Imagine seeing one million baseball cards all in one location. Now, imagine those can be yours in one fell swoop.

They can.

It can be reality in one active eBay auction and there's an added bonus. What is it? They'll throw in 100,000 free cards for your team if you choose to take this Cardboard Challenge.

Why's it a challenge? Well, consider that the haul -- and your bonus, don't forget your bonus -- amount to roughly 220 5,000-count boxes. Do you have the space? (It might also be a challenge if it's heavy on 1989 Score stripped of the stars ... but disregard this thought.)

Now, the real question is, do you have the cash? Don't worry about shipping -- it's free!
(You get to pick it all up and haul it off, so set your GPS for Manville, N.Y.)

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A PSA 8 copy of the most-iconic Topps baseball card has hit the auction block via PWCC on eBay and there have been more than 30 bids raising the price to more than a quarter-million dollars.

That's so far.

The auction for the 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle has more than nine days to go before it closes. How much is it presently up to? Click here for the latest view.

A PSA 8 copy of the card sold via Goldin Auctions earlier this year for just over $400,000. Only 32 copies of more than 1,100 graded have gotten a PSA 8 mark. Only nine cards have graded higher -- three  of those being PSA 10s.

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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.

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