Seventy-Nine Blue Line Autograph Project

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Fan HQ Private Signing 4/16/22

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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.

July 28, 2022

STEVE WEEKS

May 19, 2022

RYAN DONATO

May 7, 2022

NOAH CATES

April 29, 2022

GREG ADAMS

April 26, 2022

MIKE RAMSEY

April 17, 2022

JACK LaFONTAINE

April 16, 2022

DAVE CHRISTIAN