O-Pee-Chee

I believe he was a defenseman for the Vancouver Canucks

I had the whole set of the 1989, 1990 NHL, uh, O-Pee-Chee cards in a g-

O-Pee-Chees were better than Pro Set

Oh, they were, in a binder somewhere.

It was the year that, like, the guy for the Flames who was, like, 45 years old won the Calder Trophy 'cause he defected from the USSR or something.

Yeah, I think the rose gold is always in the retail.

[laughs] Yeah, or yellow, right? In the case of, like, O-Pee-Chee or whatever.

So let's take a look at the design here, right? So, like I said, the first 70 cards is the base set.

Uh, National Talent is kinda like the, um, Pride of the Program cards that you'd have in the, uh, Team Canada set.

That's great.

Now, his rookie card is in the 1971 O-Pee-Chee set.

It's card number 148.

It includes, unfortunately, a spelling error.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The next Playing Days card we're looking at is from 1974 O-Pee-Chee set, card number 232.

He's so happy.

His stuff tends to go pretty quick.

Uh, the only wrestling I sent in, certainly nowhere near the level of the modern stuff that you've been dabbling in, but I went in with a, a card that I find very cool, and I was really hoping for a PSA 9 for the PC, but it didn't play out, is the Stretch to the Limit 1985, uh, Topps and O-Pee-Chee card, which features Hulk Hogan wrestling Antonio Inoki.

And I don't know if it's Inoki's rookie, rookie, rookie card, but it's his, certainly his first American card.

And, uh, it's, it, to me, that's just an, an incredible card.

I had a Topps and an O-Pee-Chee copy that I culled from like maybe a dozen.

And you know me, I'm picky.

But I think, uh, there's no accounting for the way new PSA graders are handling stuff from the '80s.

The Topps got an eight.

There's some big boy, you know, uh, there could be a shield of some kind that has privately sold for more money.

But according to, uh, to, to CardLadder, his rookie card, 1984 O-Pee-Chee Hockey Doug Gilmour rookie card, a PSA 10, which, uh, I mean, there's gotta be a pretty low pop there.

Pop 61.

I'm kinda surprised that it's even that high.

5,148 bucks.

So $5,100 is the highest recorded sale for a Doug Gilmour, and it's a PSA 10 copy of his O-Pee-Chee rookie from 1984.

Only popped 61, and it's crazy, man.

Like, it's, uh, uh [laughs]What's kinda wild, so this is a one-time sale, I will say that, and I don't know why this went so high.

There's a really funny one this year, though, I can't wait to share.

So- Last year they, they did, the, the first three nominees were the O-Pee-Chee Gretzky rookie, the Bobby Orr rookie, and the Patrick Roy O-Pee-Chee rookie.

Yeah.

Then they expanded the list this year to five cards.

...

this card's gotta be in it.

Then we have a, the o- the Mario rookie, the 1985 O-Pee-Chee.

Another, again, iconic card.

He had the Hogan.

It was either Topps or O-Pee-Chee.

I'm presuming maybe O-Pee-Chee.

Um, The Rock Cardinal '97 rookie card, which we were also talking about, is very affordable.

So it's not like he...

Or 20 or $25, as the case may be.

Yeah.

Like I, I love the 1991 O-Pee-Chee Premier Yaromir Jagr rookie card.

Like, there's really nice cards in this state, but you go to a show, and there's like, there would be, like, three random guy- like a local show.

Like three random guys with a couple, like, Matt Boldy Young Guns, and, like, a w- like, a O-Pee-Chee, like, retail, like, insert kind of, like, O-Pee-Chee glossy cards or something like that, right?

Yeah.

Nothing really, really exciting, but, but there are, there are cards here.

Yeah.

Uh, but the, the Burbank show, I met, you know, a, a, I feel, super collector.

He basically had the full rainbow run of, um, 21-22 O-Pee-Chee Platinum, right? Um, really cool to just-

That's cool

Uh, I have this card signed already in the inventory, but this is different.

Uh, Sandberg rookie O-Pee-Chee.

Mm.

Blue on, blue on blue.