During the time that the sets were fairly similar, during my childhood - I honestly didn't know enough at the time to see the difference. It was much later in organizing my cards in my later teens to store them away, that I noticed the difference. The one that sticks to mind is 1991 Baseball - because the difference was essentially the copyright line, and lighter coloured backs, I thought I had a lot of one set when in fact I had a lesser part of two different sets.
Oh well, at least we are well past such issues and the sets are much different in the hockey sets these days.
That said, I did a bit of Canadiana picking off Listia with a couple early 80s O Pee Chee wins which included all the following:
1981-82 O Pee Chee - glad to get some of these as I only had one of the above. Still missing plenty of Leafs, but with most older designs, generally simple, but still very nice.
As for the O Pee Chee influences through the Santa Lot 20 today...
Highlights:
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2009-10 Retro parallels, and being O Pee Chee are just great. Also nice that, if they arenèt Leafs, they are atleast Canadian teams.
The rest
Keepers:
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Excellent to get a number of 2009-10 O Pee Chee cards. This seems to be the most recent period of time covered in the Santa Lot. This isn't a bad thing since my "out" period was roughly the 00s decade anyway, so many of the cards we are seeing are great helps.
Traders:
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As usual, Star Rookies may be great, may be not so much. For example, Alen Brink never reached the NFL as he never played a game whereas Erin Henderson who played games in each of 6 seasons with Minnesota, and in two seasons with the Jets.
Through 5500 cards:
Specific Accomplishments: |
- Complete 2003-04 SP Authentic Basketball (90 card pure base) |
- 3 Complete 2007-08 UD McDonald's Hockey Checklist Subsets (6 cards) |
- 1973-74 O-Pee-Chee Hockey #30 Bobby Orr (All-Star) |
- 2004-05 Upper Deck Legends Classics Platinum Hockey #64 Marcel Dionne 06/10 |
- 2007-08 Topps 1957-58 Variations Basketball #112 Kevin Durant (Rookie) |
Hockey | Baseball | Basketball | Football | Austin Powers | Other | |
Toronto | 94 | 8 | ||||
Inserts / Var Kept | 160 | 24 | ||||
Error | 11 | 1 | ||||
Keep | 1244 | 152 | ||||
Doubles/Sell | 640 | 34 | 1078 | 1595 | 243 | 22 |
Doubles Inserts / Var | 60 | 1 | 66 | 67 |
Alex Brink did play a little in the CFL. I only know that because he played QB at my college around the same time I went there
ReplyDeleteVery cool
DeleteThe 1990 Baseball were the same as the 1991..
ReplyDeleteYeah - I don't know why (maybe I was into 1991 more) but 1990 isn't the one top of mind...and I like the 91 design better.
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