An O Pee Chee kinda day

I know some people collect brands only, be it Topps, O Pee Chee, Upper Deck, etc. The one I always find interesting is O Pee Chee versus Topps.  I think it may be obvious for some to collect one over the other (if they wish to be traditional Americana - Topps or Canadiana - O Pee Chee), but personally - I am happy collecting both.

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:

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:

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:

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