Seventy-Nine Blue Line Autograph Project: March 2017

2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Retro
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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.

March 29, 2017

GARY McADAM

March 23, 2017

CHRIS NILAN

March 20, 2017

STEVE LARMER

March 6, 2017

MARTIN ST. LOUIS

March 4, 2017

DAVE KARPA

March 3, 2017

RANDY McKAY

March 2, 2017

JIM McELMURY

March 1, 2017

NORM BEAUDIN