Seventy-Nine Blue Line Autograph Project: December 2011

2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Update Retro
TTM 12/28/11 (312 days)

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My all-time favorite sports card set is the 1979-80 O-Pee-Chee/Topps hockey set. It is most famous for featuring Wayne Gretzky's rookie card. For me, it's just as big for including Bobby Smith's rookie. But beyond that, I always loved the design, with the deep and oh-so-'70s light blue border.

Upper Deck resurrected the design for the "Retro" parallel inserts in its 2008-09 O-Pee-Chee set. When I fell back into the autograph collecting hobby a couple of years after that, I made a point to try collecting as many autographed cards as I could from both the original 1979-80 set and the 2008-09 retro set.

A few years after that, after learning some basic Photoshop skills, I began making custom cards with this design for players who didn't have a card in either of the other sets.

December 28, 2011

MAREK ZIDLICKY

MAREK ZIDLICKY

December 21, 2011

BRIAN LEE

December 8, 2011

AL HANGSLEBEN

December 7, 2011

REED LARSON

December 6, 2011

TOM GORENCE