Seventy-Nine Blue Line Autograph Project: April 2021

2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Retro
TTM 4/19/21 (27 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.

April 24, 2021

DAVE LOWRY

April 19, 2021

ERIK CHRISTENSEN

April 12, 2021

BARRY BECK

April 11, 2021

DON BIGGS

April 9, 2021

BRETT McLEAN

April 8, 2021

JEREMY STEVENSON

April 5, 2021

DEREK SMITH