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: NBA chatter, pondering Cleveland Browns moves, Babe Ruth, Shohei Ohtani, Topps Midnight reactions and more.

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1 -- All your basketball takes are here

2 -- Pondering possibilities in Cleveland?

3 -- Checking in on the Shohei Ohtani chatter

4 -- I got you, Babe

5 -- Reactions to Topps Midnight football cards

6 -- Going oldschool ... 

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The box: 2019 Donruss Optic baseball cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (this and other formats)

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Like many collectors, Buzz is a fan of grading ... so here's this month's grading diary.

SCENE FROM A CLASSIC
The Card: Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson & Lisa Spoonauer (aka Dante Hicks, Randal Graves and Caitlin Bree) 2017 Skybox Clerks Triple Scene Autographs
The Reason Graded: Back when this one arrived, I picked off a lot of the autos over time -- at least while they were affordable -- with my sights set on some of the obscure names here and not the pricey Jay and Silent Bob (Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith) ink that any serious collector of the View Askew realm likely already had on something before this card set arrived. The character that I wanted to find was Caitlin Bree as that character's moments were hilariously twisted and this card's scene was the culminating moment in her story. Getting this on cardboard was hilarious to me. What's unfortunate here is real life -- Spoonauer died of a medication overdose at age 44 while fighting cancer just 10 days after this product arrived. Read director Kevin Smith's tribute to her here. Over time, I picked off all but one of her autographs -- one that had been pricey that's even moreso now still eludes me as it also includes Smith -- but I recently decided to slab a couple of the best ones form my stash when I revisited them and saw how clean they looked. 
The Grade: CGC 10 (Pristine)

Reality Check: Perfect grade works for me. Her auto just barely touches the border of the card but that's about its only potential issue and it's really not incomplete, so it still got a top mark. (Though auto grades are pretty meaningless to me.) This is a strong start and I should really slab more -- and find that last one I need.

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The box: 2025 Topps Heritage baseball cards (blaster)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com
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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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What: 2025 Leaf Lumber baseball cards
Arrives: August
Box basics: Four premium hits (at least one autograph) per box (10 boxes per case)
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What's buzz-worthy: Leaf's bats-focused brand arrives with some of the biggest and most-outrageous booklet cards in baseball card history with members of the 3,000 Hit Club, 500 Home Run Club and more inside some of them -- and not just their bat pieces, either.

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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 Heritage baseball cards
Arrives: April 23
Box basics: One autograph or Relic per 24-pack hobby box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Odds: Click here
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What's buzz-worthy: It's time to turn back the clock a few years with Topps Heritage taking on 1976 ... and it's penciled in to arrive this month.

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The box: 2021 Pro Set Baseball cards
Checklist: Click here
Where to buy: Click here

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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)
Checklist: Click here
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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Like many collectors, Buzz is a fan of grading ... so here's this month's grading diary.

STARTING ON A SERIOUS NOTE ...
The Card: Will Ferrell 2015 Topps Archives Will Ferrell Inserts
The Reason Graded: Back in 2015 this comedy legend took to the field for 10 MLB teams and played 10 positions in a single day of real spring training action -- you can see his stats here -- as part of a project with a charity component called Ferrell Takes The Field. Collectors ended up chasing his autographs on 10 different cards in Archives that year -- roughly one per hobby case if I remember correctly -- but, alas, I went 0-for-1 there before those boxes got too pricy and/or vanished ... but I did hit the blasters. There, the regular Ferrell inserts were found one per box -- at least until all of those boxes disappeared, too. It's been a decade since this publicity stunt took place (March 12, 2015), so I figured we could start this new MLB season here on a serious note. These aren't his only cards -- he popped up a few times that year -- but this was the first set and this was the first card -- and one for my team.
The Grade: CGC 10

Reality Check: There's a small volume of stuff slabbed for this card -- roughly all cards here have no more than 10 slabbed copies across the entire set -- and this is among the top marks. This card has full-bleed back edges in bright blue just like in 1965 Topps and when I saw how clean this card was, well, it was a no-brainer. I previously slabbed one elsewhere years ago and this copy will go well with that and a slab of the same photo used on a magazine cover that ended up on a show promo card. A lot of those who likely weren't collecting back then seem to be interested here as asking prices can be steep -- raw or graded -- for Ferrell stuff.

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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: 2025 Topps Series 1 baseball cards (hanger)
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Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for a few formats)

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The box: 2025 Topps Series 1 baseball cards (hanger)
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Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for a few formats)

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What's Buzzing: Opening Day is here ... so we've got nothing but baseball in this one.

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1 -- Opening Day is here

2 -- Collecting pitchers?

3 -- Sapphire vs. Chrome 

4 -- Baseball breaks are here

5 -- Checking in on Shohei Ohtani chatter

6 -- Still talking Heritage High Number ... and bots

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What: 2025 Topps Tribute baseball cards
Arrives: April 23
Box basics: Three autographs and three Relics per six-pack box (four boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Odds: Click here
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What's buzz-worthy: Tribute is up next in the Topps MLB lineup with its familiar high-end approach the same but it having a smaller case size this year.

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What's Buzzing: Chasing the Dodgers' big names, March Madness, The Living Set, new pulls and a Kobe question.

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1 -- Talkin' baseball ... 

2 -- Shohei Ohtani is still on their minds ... Roki Sasaki is, too

3 -- March Madness

4 -- A Kobe question

5  -- So ... The Living Set missed a day?

6 -- New pulls are popping here

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The box: 2025 Topps Series 1 baseball cards (retail Super Box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com
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What's Buzzing: The Dodgers win again (in Japan), Shohei Ohtani, NFL chatter, sketch cards and more in this mid-week edition.

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1 -- All your MLB chatter as the season is here

2 -- Shohei Ohtani is still on their minds ... Roki Sasaki is, too

3 -- One for Steelers fans

4 -- Showing off sketch cards

5  -- Stranger Things reactions

6 -- Wrestling cards are the focus here

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They're not the mascots, but they figure to be in some collections.

Topps' upcoming Celebration boxes for 2025 Topps Series 1 will loosen things up and revisit a number of the inclusions in its old Opening Day brand and, while the checklist isn't yet officially revealed, we do have a sneak peek at a few of the insert sets to be found in this one when it arrives next month.

One set will be Dugout Peeks cards as you can see above -- 10 cards are teased in our gallery -- and they'll be joined by a few other sets. See 'em all after the jump.

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What's Buzzing: The MLB season officially begins in Japan, Shohei Ohtani, NFL chatter, explaining the boom and more in today's edition.

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1 -- All your MLB chatter as the season is here

2 -- Shohei Ohtani is on their minds

3 -- Explaining the boom?

4 -- Off-season NFL chatter has a lot in here

5  -- Lots of thoughts from collectors here

6 -- Still reacting to the 2025 Bowman design tease

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What's Buzzing: Non-sports chatter, Spring Training highlights, Deebo Samuel, Allen & Ginter X, Shohei Ohtani and "the gamble pays off."

1 -- "The gamble pays off"

2 -- Checking in on the Shohei Ohtani thread

3 -- Plenty of non-sports chatter at the moment

4 -- Talking Spring Training ...

5  -- Deebo Samuel reactions

6 -- Talking Allen & Ginter X

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The box: 2024 Topps Heritage baseball cards (giant)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)
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Like many collectors, Buzz is a fan of grading, so here's this month's grading diary.

CLOSE TO PERFECT
The Card: Shohei Ohtani 2018 Topps -- Rookie Card
The Reason Graded: Ohtani's historic 2024 season had me assessing all of my cards from my 2018 stash -- mostly lower-end stuff that's heavily graded -- but not graded by me. Why? I don't grade the heavily submitted stuff because a lesser mark wouldn't be as worthy of going through the process and, really, in most instances a card can always be found already graded if it's needed. But, with his 50-50 season being so big, I opted to slab a few basics and this is one that made the cut. The stock used in 2018 is almost as thin as it gets and all that dark ink definitely showcases flaws, but I picked a pair of cards I thought were perfect from my stash and sent them in.
The Grade: CGC 10

Reality Check: I don't know where I missed a perfect mark here but I'll still take a 10 ... less than half check in there and I think it's really harder than that -- people are examining their stuff harder before sending them in. The fact that these have checked in as low as a seven show how this one isn't easy sledding when it comes to slabbing. And as for my perfect aspirations? Well, it doesn't exist.

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