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The box: 2017 Leaf Buyback Wrestling autograph cards
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com
Packs per box: 1
Cards per pack: 11
Base set completion:
N/A
What: 2018 Leaf Metal Draft football cards
Arrives: March
Box basics: Five autographs per box (15 boxes per case)
What’s buzz-worthy: Leaf Metal Draft returns with on-card autographs across the board for the biggest NFL Draft hopefuls this year as well as some new touches that will add to the complexity of the collecting rainbow in this one.
Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.
What: 2017 Leaf Perfect Game All-American Classic baseball cards
Arrives: March 2018
Box basics: Eight autographs per box (15 boxes per case)
What’s buzz-worthy: Leaf’s newest Perfect Game All-American release focuses on last year’s squad and once again gives those players patch autos and Metal autos in boxes that have nothing but hits inside.
Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.
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The box: 2017 Leaf Metal U.S. Army All-American Bowl football cards
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com
What’s inside this one? Keep reading …
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The pack: 2015 Leaf Holiday Bonus Pack
The cost: BlowoutCards.com
What’s inside this one? Keep reading …
If you want the “rookie card” of the next member of the WWE Hall of Fame, you’ll have to look back to 1980s SEC football to get in on the action.
It’s Bill Goldberg, a former Georgia Bulldogs star, who’ll get WWE’s highest nod on April 7 in New Orleans on the eve of WrestleMania XXXIV.
Do you like Buzz Breaks? Today’s your day then as we launch 12 in 12 — a series of a dozen breaks of past wax boxes and wax packs in a dozen hours. We’ll post one every hour on the hour all day long today … this is Hour 1.
The box: 2017 Leaf Metal U.S. Army All-American Bowl
The cost: BlowoutCards.com
What’s inside this one? Keep reading …
If you saw this coming, you need to be coaching The Big Game next year — and every year after that.
Alabama freshman QB Tua Tagovailoa took over behind center for the Crimson Tide down 13-0 at halftime and delivered a game-winning 41-yard TD pass to DeVonta Smith in overtime to seal a 26-23 victory.
And that makes his U.S. Army All-American Bowl cards from Leaf Trading Cards the hottest cardboard on the planet for the moment — and there’s a decent amount of options to go around, too.
What: 2018 Leaf football cards
Arrives: March
Box basics: Two autographs per 20-pack box (20 boxes per case)
What’s buzz-worthy & The Basics: These boxes will continue to include two autographs atop cards of top potential NFL Draft selections. There will also be a small number of boxes available through hobby channels — less than last year. No other details were released, but the boxes will once again carry a suggested retail price of $19.99.
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The college football world got a pair of classic showdowns on Monday night and will get a third next week when the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Georgia Bulldogs face off for the College Football Playoff National Championship.
There were some dominating performances for these two squads in the Rose Bowl and the Sugar Bowl and the good news for collectors who might not know is that a number of those stars now set to chase gridiron history already appear on fully licensed football cards thanks to card companies’ deals with prep spotlight games such as the U.S. Army All-American Bowl and the Under Armour All-America Game.
In the case of the Bulldogs and their game-winning star Sony Michel — as well as his fellow bruiser RB Nick Chubb and QB Jake Fromm — they can all be found on Army cards from Leaf Trading Cards. Michel’s first of more than 40 cards was made back in 2011 and nearly all of the are autographed. Chubb has around 30 cards from 2014 and beyond, while Fromm has more than both of them with nearly 50 signed. His are all from this year’s set — and this trio is likely not alone for Bulldog cameos as there have been plenty of cards made for the event in past years (some wax is still findable — there’s even a Vault release on the way).
The Crimson Tide guys? There’s a lot more mystery there …
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The box: 2017 Leaf Originals Wrestling
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com
Packs per box: 1
Cards per box: 5
Base set completion:
3 of 41 (7 percent)
Duplicates: 0
He was a dominating goaltender nicknamed “The China Wall,” a two-time Vezina Trophy winner, a four-time Stanley Cup champ and a Hall of Famer.
He’s Johnny Bower and the former star for the New York Rangers and Toronto Maple Leafs died Tuesday after a battle with pneumonia. He was 93.
“Johnny Bower enriched us all by sharing the pure joy he felt for the game he played and for the men who played it, with him and against him,” said NHL commissioner Gary Bettman in a statement. “It was a personal privilege to know him, a delight to be in his presence.”
What: 2017-18 Leaf Ultimate Hockey cards
Arrives: February
Box basics: Three autographs or memorabilia cards per box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here
What’s buzz-worthy: Leaf cuts its box sizes in half and doubles the boxes in each case for this high-end celebration of the action on the ice — and new this year will be Leaf Ultimate Choice redemption cards that allow collectors to pick their 1/1 from an elite and always-changing list of cards.
Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.
What: 2017 Leaf All-American Football Vault football cards
Arrives: February
Box basics: A past box and a 2017 Leaf Metal All-American Bonus Box (12 boxes per case)
What’s buzz-worthy: Leaf revisits the U.S. Army All-American Bowl with a limited-edition release that revisits past years of the prep all-star event via full boxes of those past products combined with newer bonus cards. Among those? A number of new Christian McCaffrey patch autographs.
Keep reading for more info.
What: 2018 Leaf Memorabilia Treasury
Arrives: March
Box basics: Five memorabilia pieces per box
What’s buzz-worthy: Leaf Trading Cards follows up its Treasury release of last year with the same type of surprises inside — autographed and notable items from the sports world and beyond.
Keep reading for more.
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What’s Buzzing Today: Artballs coming in Transcendent, waiting too long to rip wax, Pop Century pulls and more.
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The box: 2012 Leaf Pete Rose The Living Legend baseball cards
The cost: Click here
What’s inside this one? Keep reading …
If you hadn’t noticed, there are a number of boxes with discounted prices right now over on the mothership as BlowoutCards.com is in the midst its Black November sales now.
Wave 7 is here and many of the discounts were dramatic enough that Buzz had to sit down and ponder the possibilities in many of the boxes and cases — and here are five boxes/cases that caught this collector’s eye.
2013-14 Panini Prestige NBA wax boxes and cases
This isn’t a high-end brand but it’s one that packs two autographs and two memorabilia cards in every box with roughly 20 insert cards, too. The key here? Giannis. His autographs are in here. His Rookie Cards are in here. He’s such a big deal, he doesn’t even need his long last name mentioned here. (Yes, I can spell it … Antetokounmpo.) If you land his auto, it can pay for at least a third, if not half of the case. This is a brand where you can also land the likes of Kevin Durant and Kobe Bryant ink (among others) and there’s plenty of stuff in there — especially if you go with a volume buy with the low sale price.
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The box: 2017 Leaf Wrestling Autographed 8×10 Photograph Edition
The cost: Click here
What’s inside this one? Keep reading …
What: 2017 Leaf Plates & Proofs hockey cards
Arrives: January
Box basics: Eight 1/1 cards per box (10 boxes per case)
What’s buzz-worthy: Leaf loads up this one for hockey fans with nothing but proof cards and printing plates in every box.
Keep reading for more as well as a full gallery of images released so far.
He styled. He profiled. He wrestled around the world and made millions “Woooooooooo!”
The limousine riding and jet flying is a bit less chaotic these days, but the boisterous story of “The Nature Boy” Ric Flair — or, really, the real-life story of Richard Fliehr — will get the spotlight tonight at 10 p.m. on ESPN.
It’s a 30 For 30 documentary that’s been in the works for months — long before his recent health scare nearly ended his life at age 68. It’s a piece that promises to explore the man, the myth, the legend — and where that’s led him to today. (And to be the man, you still have to beat the man … he’s not done yet.)
What: 2017 Leaf Buyback Wrestling trading cards
Arrives: December
Box basics: 11 on-card autograph cards per box (five boxes per case)
What’s buzz-worthy: Leaf focuses on wrestling stars of the past with nothing but previously issued cards with ink added for this new product — one that the company says is “easily the most value-driven Leaf wrestling item we have ever released.”
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What’s Buzzing Today: The Astros win it all and collectors win with all their big pulls.
What: 2017 Leaf Trinity baseball cards
Arrives: January
Box basics: Six autographed cards per box (12 boxes per case)
What’s buzz-worthy: This one returns with what Leaf says is the “strongest checklist in Trinity baseball history” with new draft picks and notable prospects that the company says will be “chasing the face of professional baseball for years to come.”
Keep reading for more info and a full gallery.
Today’s highly anticipated release of the JFK files — the previously classified documents regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 — are sure to be a holiday of sorts for conspiracy theorists and are sure to pique the curiosity of history buffs and presidential-minded people.
But the life of the 35th president has prompted plenty of cardboard appearances over the years, too, far beyond just the tragedy of that November day in Dallas, Texas.
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 and World Series chatter today.
What: 2018 Leaf Best of Sports
Arrives: January
Box basics: One buyback and one Leaf Best of Sports card per box (10 boxes per case)
Order: Boxes here & cases here
What’s buzz-worthy: Leaf’s buyback brand takes on all of the sports world all in one place with a smaller print run than past “Best of” releases.
Keep reading for more info.
What: 2017 Leaf Metal Sports Heroes Pre-production Proofs
Arrives: Soon
Box basics: Three 1/1 proof cards per box
What’s buzz-worthy: Every card that made its way into boxes of the recently released 2017 Leaf Metal Sports Heroes gets a 1/1 unsigned equivalent here. Every card in every box will be encapsulated by BGS. For more on what was in the standard release, click here.
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What’s Buzzing Today: Pondering vintage grades, big NBA and NFL breaks, legendary ink and collectors react to the death of a Hall of Famer.
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.
Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.
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.
Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.
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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.
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.”
Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.
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.
Keep reading for more.
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.”
Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.
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