Dandy Dozen: Twelve Aaron Judge autographs to consider chasing now

What happens when a New York Yankees rookie hits his league-leading 12th home run of the season?

Baseball cards just keep selling.

Aaron Judge is that Yankee and thanks to several years’ of prospecting sets and his 2017 Rookie Card arrival he’s arguably the hottest cardboard in the hobby today. As we documented here on Monday, he’s got more than 400 different autographed cards already — and there’s undoubtedly more on the way — and that’s a good problem to have.

But what if you don’t have a Judge auto? Where should you start? Consider these 12 sets or specific cards …

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Board Buzz: Must-read threads on the Blowout Forums (March 30)

EE3CAF1B-BFE3-49B9-B0C6-9A8E12CB5951_zpsv35aesimThe 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: Massive pulls in Heritage, National Treasures and retail … also haters gotta hate and storage wars.

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Board Buzz: Must-read threads on the Blowout Forums (March 26)

16nt2_zps03sah9n2The 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: National Treasures, Donruss blasters, Duke’s finest, best baseball movies, the Maikel Franco debate & more

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Board Buzz: Must-read threads on the Blowout Forums (March 25)

StarWarsThe 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: Impressive pulls in cases, blasters and food-issue reactions.

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Gallery: 2015 Panini National Treasures football cards pulled live on BlowoutTV

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This year’s edition of National Treasures football cards arrived on Friday and Buzz took an hour to watch a small sliver of the breaks seen over on BlowoutTV toward the end of a long day of breaking.

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Gallery: 2015 Panini National Treasures football cards

2015-panini-national-treasures-3This year’s National Treasures football card set is slated to arrive next week packing some of the biggest names in the history of the game.

But don’t take Buzz’s word for it … just check out the gallery of cards teased by Panini America so far this morning as it fills the boxes of 2015 Panini National Treasures by hand today down in Texas.

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Panini to include Treasure Chest cards in 2015 National Treasures football release arriving March 23

2015-Panini-NT-treasure-chestThis one is kind of a big deal.

Panini America teased a big inclusion in the upcoming 2015 Panini National Treasures football card set on Tuesday and it’s the National Treasures Treasure Chest card.

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Board Buzz: Must-read threads on the Blowout Forums (Feb. 23)

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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 breaks, spiking prospects, Leaf Ultimate hockey & more

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Board Buzz: Must-read threads on the Blowout Forums (Feb. 22)

Babe-Ruth-Bat-barrelThe 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 breaks, big bat cards, non-sports & more

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Board Buzz: Five must-read threads on the Blowout Forums (Jan. 21)

imageThe 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: Some 2015 Panini National Treasures, a Ruthian Pull, Derek Jeter’s documents, redemption replacements and some big card company rumors …

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Board Buzz: Five must-read threads on the Blowout Forums (Jan. 12)

JohnnyManzielThe 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: The Steiner Sports Cleveland Browns trade-in, Nick Saban’s greatness, some Panini America NBA and baseball cases and one mighty pack of Star Wars cards.

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Board Buzz: Five must-read threads on the Blowout Forums (Jan. 11)

TrackerThe 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: National Treasures hits and case breaks, the dirty Cincinnati Bengals, the dirty Pittsburgh Steelers, Carlos Correa, Panini Rewards and more …

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Gallery: 2015 Panini National Treasures baseball cards

NT-pedroiaThe newest edition of Panini America‘s highest-end baseball brand is here with a mix of big names from the past, big names from today and some potential stars of tomorrow, too.

From sweet spot autographs and inscriptions to legendary memorabilia pieces and deluxe books it looks like 2015 Panini National Treasures has a bit of everything for everyone. (Even Buzz’s favorite player.)

With that said, here’s a gallery of cards collectors have pulled so far on Day 1 of the release as found on eBay. Buzz will add a few hits from BlowoutTV here, soon, too.

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Need a 2015 Panini National Treasures baseball card checklist? Get it right here …

15-national-treasures-baseball-babe-ruthPanini America‘s high-end standard arrives for the third time in baseball this week and the mystery of what’s in 2015 Panini National Treasures has been solved.

What’s in it this year? Get the checklist right here.

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National Treasures includes legendary first for John McGraw

2015-national-treasures-baseball-john-mcgrawHe was known as “Little Napoleon” during his 17 seasons as a player that began way back in 1891 and during his 36 seasons as a manager that ended back in 1932, but the memorabilia cards of Baseball Hall of Famer John McGraw found in 2015 Panini National Treasures are a big deal.

Why? They’re unprecedented in hobby history.

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First Buzz: 2015 Panini National Treasures football cards

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What: 2015 Panini National Treasures football cards
Arrives: March 2, 2016
Box basics: Eight cards — three autographs, three memorabilia, two base/parallels — per box. (Four boxes per case.)

What’s buzz-worthy: Panini America improves upon the impressiveness of Treasure Chest cards seen in its past NT hockey release with 24-piece memorabilia and 12-autograph booklet cards in this year’s edition. These also will have patch and 1/1 NFL Shield versions. Also in this one will be autograph and memorabilia sets for America’s Team, the Dallas Cowboys, and The Steel Curtain Pittsburgh Steelers.

Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.

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More Will Ferrell autographs — well, at least one — coming in boxes of 2015 Topps Dynasty baseball cards

WillFerrell2015ToppsDynastyWill Ferrell‘s baseball career may be over, but his baseball card career isn’t.

The big-league comedian who played a big-leaguer for a day in spring training this year will have at least one more baseball card appearance to come, and it will be in 2015 Topps Dynasty.

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First Buzz: 2015 National Treasures baseball cards

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What:
 2015 Panini National Treasures baseball cards
Arrives: January 2016
Hobby box basics: Eight autograph or memorabilia cards with one being a booklet.

What’s buzz-worthy: National Treasures’ third edition for baseball will up the ante on game-used memorabilia cards with oversized jumbo swatches for pieces not normally found in cards. Among them? Stirrup socks. Sock cards will be limited to five copies or less and showcase players such as Lou Gehrig, Bob Feller, Elson Howard, Gabby Hartnett, Herb Pennock, Mike Schmidt and Pete Rose. Also to be found? Fielding gloves, batting gloves and sweatband cards. This will include current and past stars such as Kris Bryant, Byron Buxton, Kyle Schwarber, Ken Griffey Jr., Barry Bonds, Tony Gwynn, Mike Schmidt and Willie Stargell, according to the company.

See a gallery and more … below.

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