Seventy-Nine Blue Line Autograph Project: November 2017

2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Retro
TTM 11/20/17 (7 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.

November 24, 2017

JACK McCARTAN

WALT McKECHNIE

November 21, 2017

RYAN CARTER

November 18, 2017

ERIC VAIL

November 14, 2017

DOUG PALAZZARI

November 9, 2017

DOUG HICKS