What's Buzzing: Indiana wins it all, Cooperstown calls tonight, Drake Maye, NFL chatter, 2026 Topps and ... Freddie Freeman or Mike Trout?

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1 -- Indiana wins it all

2 -- Cooperstown calls tonight + more MLB chatter

3 -- Freddie Freeman or Mike Trout? (Really.)

4 -- Talking Drake Maye

5 -- NFL: Looking forward to this weekend

6 -- Talking 2026 Topps

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What: 2026 Topps Series 1 baseball cards
Arrives: Feb. 11
Box basics: One autograph or Relic per 20-pack hobby box (12 per case) + other formats seen in gallery
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What's buzz-worthy: The teases of the first Topps baseball card set of 2026 are here as the company starts a launch of its 75th anniversary campaign.

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This annual showcase includes another set of commemorative items made just for collectors.

The Baseball America Best of 2025 Awards issue is a jam-packed 74 pages of info and flash as it salutes the standouts of the year and also ranks the top 150 American League prospects as we look forward to a new season. Gracing its cover is Toronto Blue Jays prospect and postseason phenom Trey Yesavage.

Nestled in the center of the issue is a group of four perforated sheets. On the first one, collectors can pull out cards featuring the magazine's award-winners for this year -- Aaron Judge (MLB Player of the Year), Nick Kurtz (Rookie of the Year), Pat Murphy (MLB Manager of the year ... and pocket pancakes mastermind!), Konnor Griffin (MiLB Player of the Year), Jonah Tong (MiLB Pitcher of the Year), Ethan Holliday (High School Player of the Year), Roch Cholowsky (College Player of the Year), Dylan Volantis (College Freshman of the Year) and James Nelson (Independent Player of the Year) -- with their cards recapping why each got the nod. The second sheet recognizes the notable achievements of the year with Julio Rodriguez, Bobby Witt Jr., new 30-30 Club members, Jose Ramirez, Shohei Ohtani, Paul Skenes, Cal Raleigh, Clayton Kershaw, Mike Trout and Yoshinobu Yamamoto all in there for their various highlight moments in 2025.

The final two sheets showcase notable "future prospects" with new draft picks on 18 cards. They include Gavin Fien, Ethan Conrad, Tate Southisene, Sean Gamble, Jordan Yost, Gage Wood, Josh Hammond, Patrick Forbes, Marcus Phillips, Michael Oliveto, Slater de Brun, Mitch Voit, Dax Kilby, Zach Root, Charles Davalan, Jaden Fauske, J.B. Middleton and Brandon Compton with scouting reports and grades on every card.

As with the previous Baseball America sheets, they are perforated to be pulled off as sheets or even broken down to individual cards as part of the double-issue package that carries a $14.99 cover price. They are available in the BlowoutCards.com shop here or in the Baseball America online shop. These sheets have historically only been found in subscriber issues or via these two spots, not in newsstand issues. 

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What: 2025 Topps Five Star baseball cards
Arrives: Dec. 29
Box basics: Five encased on-card autographs per six-pack box (three boxes per case)
Checklist: TBD
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What's buzz-worthy: Five Star hits to the diamond for another year with a new format, some new looks, some deluxe inclusions and a mix of stars from the past and present ... sometimes on the same card.

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The box: 2025 Topps Holiday baseball cards (tin)
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The box: 2025 Topps Holiday baseball cards (tin)
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What: 2025 Topps Black & White baseball cards
Arrives: TBD
Box basics: One autograph per hobby box (TBD per case) & TBD per mega box (TBD per case)
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Order: Click here (when available)

What's buzz-worthy: Black & White arrives for new year with a lineup of inclusions and a pair of formats along with plenty of new looks and approaches for the brand.

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What: 2025 Topps Update baseball cards
Arrives: Nov. 12
Box basics: One auto or Relic per 20-pack hobby box (12 per case) or one auto and two Relics per 10-pack jumbo box (six per case)
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What's buzz-worthy: The full hobby details for the Update series of Topps' flagship baseball cards are still to come, but the box subject has been teased and it's Chicago Cubs outfielder Pete Crow-Armstrong.

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What's Buzzing: Introducing the MLBPA Players Collection, if Mike Trout and Aaron Judge retired tomorrow, chatter about an error, NFL Week 2, Joe Burrow is hurt, there's a new Phillies Karen baseball offer and more.

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1 -- Introducing the MLBPA Players Collection 

2 -- If Aaron Judge and Mike Trout retired now ...

3 -- Dom Canzone, anyone? ... Big Dumper keeps homering

4 -- All your NFL Week 2 chatter ... Joe Burrow is hurt

5 -- Much ado about ...

6 -- Phillies Karen: The new offer stands

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What: 2025 Topps T205 baseball cards
Arrives: TBD
Box basics: Four packs per 40-card box ... one autograph in every four boxes
Checklist: Click here
Order: BlowoutCards.com (when available)

What's buzz-worthy: Topps revisits old-timey tobacco cards with a T206 companion that carries a little more color, the T205 series, but with the same general approach of past editions.

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Update: The card sold for $12,932,000 -- an all-time record for any sports card -- at 1:45 a.m. Sunday morning.

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It's already topped the $7-million mark with time to go before the auction ends tomorrow night, but there's no telling the heights this card might reach.

There's a realistic chance that the Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant 2007-08 Upper Deck Exquisite Collection Dual Logoman Autographs card will become the priciest sports card of all time -- not just priciest basketball card ever -- when the dust settles at ends Heritage Auctions on Saturday and it's really only got two rivals.

Right now, with its buyer's premium attached, this card sits at $7,015,000 after 46 bids (click to view) and that already gives it the title of the biggest basketball card of all time. The previous NBA high was for a similar modern card, a 2009-10 Panini National Treasures Steph Curry Logoman auto, that sold privately for $5.9 million to an investment fund July 2021.

And there aren't too many past auctions that top that.

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The box: 2025 Topps Heritage baseball cards (blaster)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com
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What: 2025 Topps Tier One baseball cards
Arrives: Sept. 17
Box basics: Two autos and one Relic per four-card box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
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Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: A new year of Tier One arrives soon with "no fluff, just hits" -- and with one base card in there each time, too, as it delivers "serious weight" as part of what Topps says is "a high-end dive into the heart of the hobby."

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The box: 2022 Topps Heritage baseball cards (retail display)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)
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What's Buzzing: Talking 2025 Score football cards, Jac, Trout, Topps Series 2, the National and still talking young pitchers.

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1 -- Talking 2025 Score NFL

2 -- Reel Big Fish

3 -- Is hobby legend Jac back?

4 -- Pondering futures for MLB pitchers

5 -- Ripping into Topps Series 2

6 -- All your National chatter

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What: 2025 Topps Archives Signature Series baseball cards
Arrives: Aug. 6
Box basics: One encased and numbered buyback autograph per box (20 boxes per case)
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What's buzz-worthy: Topps' long-running brand arrives once again with "a curated lineup of autographed buybacks — each one a piece of hobby history reimagined."

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The box: 2025 Bowman baseball cards (blaster)
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Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for a few formats)

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What: 2024 Topps Inception baseball cards
Arrives: June 18, 2025
Box basics: One autograph or autographed Relic per seven-card box (eight boxes per case)
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What's buzz-worthy: Topps Inception will return for another colorful run with plenty of energy, new rookies and more all in one spot and, while it's not yet been formally unveiled, we do have a meaty gallery of preview images.

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What: 2025 Topps Dynamic Duals baseball cards
Arrives: May 22
Box basics: One dual-auto card per box
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What's buzz-worthy: This brand looking at prolific pairings "showcases enticing player combinations featuring top MLB stars both past and present" with some other surprises also in the mix.

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What: 2025 Topps Sterling baseball cards
Arrives: June 4
Box basics: Two autographed Relics or one auto Relic and one 1/1 Relic per box (four boxes per case)
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Odds: TBD
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What's buzz-worthy: Topps Sterling once again hits the diamond for a new season with some high-end inclusions and plenty of star power from today's game with 1/1s typically found in every case.

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What's Buzzing: NFL Draft first-round reactions, Aaron Judge, Jac Caglianone, Topps Black, NBA postseason and more in this Friday drop.

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1 -- All your NFL Draft reactions are here

2 -- Aaron Judge is on their minds

3 -- PuddleMonkey (who collects harder than you) has a question ... (see, harder)

4 -- Checking in on the Jac Caglianone thread

5 -- Talking Topps Black

6 -- NBA postseason chatter

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If you're one of those baseball collectors who's been all about the anime, this one's for you.

Buzz was busy today adding a bunch of cardboard to the preview gallery for the forthcoming 2025 Bowman release (click here to see all of those and order your boxes), but this one -- all 30 cards in the 2025 Bowman Anime insert set -- gets its own standalone.

Why? These baseball cards are unique and they're a popular style of artistic card inclusions from a few companies in a few sports in recent years. This time there are 30 standard cards for stars of the past, present and future -- and then four Japanese icons will have Kanji Variations to find as well.

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What: 2025 Topps Chrome Black baseball cards
Arrives: April 30
Box basics: One autograph in every box (12 boxes per case)
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Order: Click here (when available)

What's buzz-worthy: This brand returns for a sixth time with the same approach of the past -- an encased autograph and more in every box -- and some new looks and signers in play.

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What's Buzzing: Whatever, whoever, whenever ... yada, yada, yada ... read them or don't in today's edition.

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1 -- Him?

2 -- Whoopee!

3 -- Whatever.

4 -- Who?

5 -- That guy?

6 -- Really? Only a blaster?

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The box: 2023 Topps Series 1 baseball cards (retail Super Box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (other formats)
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