Seventy-Nine Blue Line Autograph Project: January 2018

1979-80 O-Pee-Chee
TTM 1/29/18 (789 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.

January 29, 2018

JOHN GARRETT

January 26, 2018

BOB MASON

January 16, 2018

OREST KINDRACHUK

January 9, 2018

MIKE RIDLEY

January 8, 2018

JIM RUTHERFORD

January 2, 2018

DARRYL SITTLER