Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction February 2024
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/20/2024
All featuring checklists that consist of 374 cards, the O-Pee-Chee baseball sets of 1979, 1980 and 1981 are also all considered to be abridgements of the Topps counterparts released south of the border while also sporting both French and English text for the Canadian market. All sporting a higher number of Toronto Blue Jays and Montreal Expos players than what is found in the Topps sets, offered here is this trio of complete O-Pee-Chee baseball releases from 1979, 1980 and 1981.
Starting with the 1979 set, found to be in an overall uniform condition range of EX-MT to NM, O-Pee-Chee's commonly seen centering issues are present within the set and the checklist cards are all found to be in an unmarked state. Led by EX-MT to NM cards of 11-Winfield, 41-Yount (70-30 centering), 52-Smith RC (off-center top-to-bottom), 101-Bench (70-30 centering), 167-Brett (70-30 centering) 179-Dawson, 270-Carter (70-30 centering), 323-Schmidt (slightly off-center), 328-Murray, 343-Rose and 374-Jackson, the final key card is that of 51-Ryan, which is seen as being in the range of EX-MT condition with a tiny top left corner ding worth mentioning for accuracy.
For the 1980 release, seen as being in an overall condition range of EX-MT to NM, once again some of the OPC centering issues are present within the set and all three (3) checklist cards are found to be in an unmarked state. Including EX-MT to NM cards of 37-Carter, 55-Bench, 88-Murray (80-20 centering), 124-Dawson, 139-Yount, 141-Schmidt, 235-Brett, 303-Ryan, 353-Carew and 365-Yastrzemski, card #282 of Pete Rose is around EX-MT due to slight fuzz at the bottom right corner and card #314 of Reggie Jackson is around VG-EX to EX because of a slightly worn bottom right corner.
Lastly, for the 1981 assembly, once again presenting in the EX-MT to NM range with OPC's centering issues seen throughout the set, the key cards in the aforementioned EX-MT to NM condition include those of 4-Yount, 6-Carter, 39-Murray (80-20 centering), 113-Brett, 125-Dawson (off-center), 136-Raines RC, 180-Rose (80-20 centering), 207-Schmidt, 240-Ryan (slightly off-center), 261-Henderson (off-center), 315-Gibson RC (off-center top-to-bottom) and 347-Baines RC, all three (3) checklist cards are found in an unmarked state as well. Overall a strong trio of classic baseball offerings waiting for their new home in your all-important collection!
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