Seventy-Nine Blue Line Autograph Project: New England Whalers

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May 1, 2020

July 20, 2019

August 1, 2018

June 5, 2018

February 10, 2017

January 13, 2017

JACK CARLSON

Custom Card
IP 1/13/17 at Sticks In Stillwater Opening Ceremony

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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.

May 1, 2020

LOUIS LEVASSEUR

July 20, 2019

BOB CHARLEBOIS

August 1, 2018

MARTY HOWE

June 5, 2018

TERRY CAFFERY

February 10, 2017

ANDRE LACROIX

January 13, 2017

JACK CARLSON