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[[2012 Finest]], a 100-card set, was released August 8, 2012. Each "Master Box" will contain one Autographed Rookie Refractor, one Autographed Jumbo Relic Rookie Refractor, two Finest Moments inserts, one Faces of the Franchise and Game Changers inserts, and six various Refractor parallels. Two mini-boxes per Master Box. Six packs per mini-box (MSRP: $50), five cards per pack. Hobby only. One Master box in every four cases, will be a "Hot Box" that will yeild a base refractor parallel in place of every base card.
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[[2012 Topps Mini]], a mini-sized version of the the base Topps set, was released on August 1, 2012. Boxes were availble for sale at the Topps corporate booth at the 2012 NSCC for $50. The first 100 collectors to buy a box received a five-card promo set which includes: Yu Darvish, Bryce Harper, Matt Kemp, Stephen Strasburg and Roy Halladay. Boxes are are exclusively available for sale on the Topps web site.
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Produced by Panini America, [[2012 Triple Play]] is a 90-card set released August 1st, 2012 at the 2012 NSCC. Just like the Triple Play sets of the early-90s, the primarily geared towards children. The entire base set features computerized vector art. Please note, that this set is NOT licensed by MLB Properties and does not feature any MLB logos.
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[[2012 Bowman Platinum]], a 100-card set, was released on July 25, 2012. The 100-card base set will be supplemented by a 100-card Prospects set. Each 20-pack Hobby box is expected to yield two Autographed Prospects, one Autographed Relic, five Prospect and four Top Prospect inserts, a pair of Cutting Edge die-cut inserts, and seven base set parallels.
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[[2012 Topps Allen & Ginter's]], a 350-card set, was released to retail outlets Monday, July 9, 2012. It will be released to the hobby on July 11, 2012. Each hobby box will yield three autographs, relics, original Allen & Ginter cards or Rip cards. Every pack contains a mini parallel card and one in every six pack contain a Ginter code card.
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[[2012 SP Signature Edition]], originally scheduled for release on May 1st, was released on July 3, 2012. Each three-card pack will contain two autographs and a multi-player signed autograph. Upper Deck has yet to unveil either a checklist or images of the cards in this set. In fact, UD did not even unveil the existence of this product until a week before it's original release date. This product will be licensed by the MLB Players Association, but not MLB Properties.
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[[2012 Topps Tier One]], a hobby-only product, was released on June 21, 2012. Each pack promises at least one On The Rise autographs, a relic serial-numbered to 399 copies or less, and either a Crowd Pleaser autograph, mutil-player autograph, autographed relic or cut signature in each pack. Every 12-pack case will yield one Top Tier autograph.
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[[2012 Topps Pro Debut]] is a 220-card Minor League set. It was released exclusively to The Hobby the week of June 11th, 2012 after a three week delay. Each 24-pack box is expected to yield two autographs and two "relics."
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[[2012 Topps Series Two]] was released to mass-market retail outlets June 2, 2012 and to The Hobby on June 6, 2012. The base set will consist of 331 cards (#331-#661) and each Hobby box will yield either an autograph or a game-used Relic.
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[[2012 Topps Archives]], a 241-card set, was released Friday, May 17, 2012. Due to restrictions on the number of retired players that can appear in a specific product alongside current MLB players, 2012 Archives can not be structured like the Archives sets of the 1990s and 2000s -- i.e. a set full of reprints. Instead, the set will feature current stars in a variety of classic designs along with a subset based on the All-Time Fan Favorites set of the 2000s. Each 24-pack Hobby box is expected to yield two All-Time Fan Favorites autographs.
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[[2012 Bowman]] Baseball was released to retail on May 4, 2012. The set features 220 cards and a 110 card Prospect insert set. Each Hobby box will yield one on-card autograph. Each pack will contain five base cards, one Gold parallel, two Prospects, two Chrome Prospects. For the first time since 2008, Bowman will not include and Team USA content.
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[[2011-12 Panini Limited]] is a 30-card set released May 2, 2012. Each pack/box contained seven cards, two of which are autographs and a third either a game-used card or another autograph. Each 15-pack case will yield 43 autographs.

Each base card us serial-numbered to 249 copies. Limited will feature Panini's first USA Baseball cards since acquiring the license and the first batting helmet game-used cards in any product in a decade.
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[[2011-12 Playoff Prime Cuts]] was released by Panini on April 18, 2012. Each pack/box contains five cards, two of which are autographs and the other three game-used. Each pack contains one base cards, serial-numbered to 99 copies, or a game-used base card parallel numbered to 199 or less. Panini has marketed Prime Cuts as a year-2011 product. However since it was released in April, 2012, BCP does not consider it a "2011" product. Please note, that this set is NOT licensed by MLB Properties and does not feature any MLB logos.
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[[2012 Topps Gypsy Queen]] is a 350-card set released to on April 15, 2012. Hobby was released on Wednesday, April 18th. Each 24-pack Hobby box is expected to yield two autographs and two "relics" and a ten-card "mini-box" containing parallels.
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[[2012 Topps Museum Collection]], a 100-card set, was released on April, 4, 2012. Museum Collection is the new name for the product previously known as Marquee. Each four-pack Hobby box is expected to yield one on-card Autograph, one Autographed Relic card, one Jumbo Relic card, and one Quad Relic card.
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<h2 style="background:#CDF2E0; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #ccc; text-align:left; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Featured hobby definitions</h2>

* [[Dump]]
* [[Death Bump]]
* [[Bookend]]
* [[Rag]]
* [[Hot Pack]]
* [[Azuna]]
* [[Lenticular Printing]]
* [[Sticker Dump]]
* [[Junk Wax]]
* [[Rainbow]]

[[:Category:Hobby_Definitions|All definitions]]
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<h2 style="background:#f7d4e0; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #ccc; text-align:left; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Upcoming releases</h2>

<b>August 14</b>
* [[2012 Upper Deck Goodwin Champions]]

<b>August 20 (delayed)</b>
* [[2012 Panini Cooperstown]]

<b>August 22</b>
* [[2012 Topps Chrome]]

<b>August 29</b>
* [[2012 Panini Signature Series]]

<b>September 12</b>
* [[2012 Topps Heritage Minor League]]

<b>September 19</b>
* [[2012 Triple Threads]]

<b>October 3</b>
* [[2012 Topps Update]]

<b>October 17</b>
* [[2012 Bowman Chrome]]

<b>October 31</b>
* [[2012 Topps Five Star]]

<b>October</b>
* [[2012 Prime Cuts]]

<b>November 28</b>
* [[2012 Bowman Draft Picks & Prospects]]

<b>December 12</b>
* [[2012 Bowman Sterling]]

<b>December</b>
* [[2012 Donruss Elite Extra Edition]]
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<h2 style="background:#CDF2E0; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #ccc; text-align:left; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Collector guides</h2>
* [[Buying Wax]]
* [[Collecting Cards]]
* [[Card condition]]
* [[Professional Grading]]
* [[Rookie cards]]
* [[Card storage]]
* [[Trading]]
* [[Shipping]]
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<h2 style="background:#CDF2E0; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #ccc; text-align:left; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Online Resources</h2>

<b>Card Forums</b>
* [http://freedomcardboard.com Freedom Cardboard]
* [http://www.thebenchtrading.com The Bench]
* [http://community.cardboardconnection.com/forums/forums.php Cardboard Connection Forum]
* [http://www.blowoutcards.com/forums/ Blowout Forum]
* [http://forums.collectors.com/categories.cfm?catid=11 Collectors Universe]
* [http://www.beckett.com/forums/ Beckett Forum]

<b>Cardblogs</b>
* [http://cardboardicons.com Cardboard Icons]
* [http://cardjunk.blogspot.com Cardboard Junkie]
* [http://mojobeardy.wordpress.com The Mojo Beard]
* [http://blog.stalegum.com Stale Gum]
* [http://thorzul.blogspot.com Thorzul Will Rule]
* [http://fanofreds.blogspot.com Nachos Grande]
* [http://nightowlcards.blogspot.com Night Owl Cards]
* [http://junkwaxgems.wordpress.com Junk Wax Gems]
* [http://collectorempire.com Uncharted Hobby]
* [http://cardsbysooz.blogspot.com Cards by Sooz]
* [http://baseballcardblog.blogspot.com The Baseball Card Blog]
* [http://bdj610bbcblog.blogspot.com bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog]
* [http://bdj610scblogroll.blogspot.com Sports Card Blogroll]
* [http://firstballot.blogspot.com First Ballot Picture Cards]
* [http://joeaveragecollector.blogspot.com/ Joe Average Card Collector]

<b>Trading Web Sites</b>
* [http://www.sportscardforum.com Sports Card Forum]

<b>Collection Management</b>
* [http://www.zistle.com Zistle]

<b>Baseball Card Cyber Museum</b>
* [http://www.guitar9.com/bccm.html BCCM]

<b>Podcasts</b>
* [http://www.sportscardradio.com/index.php/stream-the-sports-card-show Sports Card Radio]
* [http://www.blogtalkradio.com/cardboardconnectionradio Cardboard Connection Radio]
* [http://freedomcardboard.com/blog/tag/fcb-podcast FCB Podcast]

<b>Grading Companies</b>
* [http://www.psacard.com/ PSA]
* [http://www.beckett.com/grading/ BGS]

<b>Price Guides</b>
* [http://www.beckett.com Beckett]

<b>Collector-to-Collector Buying/Selling</b>
* [http://www.checkoutmycards.com Check Out My Cards]
* [http://www.ebay.com eBay]

<b>Card Tracking</b>
* [http://www.pulledsuperfractorslist.com Pulled SuperFractors List]
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