Seventy-Nine Blue Line Autograph Project: New York Rangers

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February 16, 2022

April 12, 2021

BARRY BECK

1979-80 O-Pee-Chee

Private Signing 4/12/21

May 9, 2020

DANIEL GIRARDI

2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Retro
TTM 5/9/20 (10 days)

July 17, 2019

May 28, 2019

April 29, 2019

RON GRESCHNER

1979-80 O-Pee-Chee
Paid TTM via PastPros 4/29/19 (54 days)

February 13, 2019

December 11, 2017

November 24, 2017

July 12, 2017

TOM YOUNGHANS

Custom Card
IP 7/11/17 at Minnesota NHL Alumni Golf Classic

May 31, 2014

DAN FRITSCHE

2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Retro
TTM 5/31/14 (352 days)

February 4, 2012

April 9, 2011

AARON VOROS

2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Retro
TTM 4/9/11 (162 days)

March 25, 2011

February 19, 2011

MIKE McEWEN

1979-80 Topps
Trade 2/19/11

About This Blog

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.