Seventy-Nine Blue Line Autograph Project: January 2019

1979-80 Topps
TTM 1/22/19 (19 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 28, 2019

JOHN CULLEN

JOHN CULLEN

January 23, 2019

JOE DALEY

January 22, 2019

KEN LINSEMAN

January 18, 2019

DAMIAN RHODES

January 10, 2019

AARON DELL

January 9, 2019

TROY LONEY

January 7, 2019

GARRY HOWATT