Random Card of the Day

OPC cards are bi-lingual, with both English and French writing. they also have ragged borders as a result of their being cut by wire instead of blade. The paper stock was usually whiter than Topps, which was often brown. although to say OPC was white is not really accurate...cream would be moreso. A lot of their appeal has to due with the fact that they were not available in the US so for long time collectors, pre-internet days, there was an allure of mystery about them, they were more exotic than Topps cards.
 

For the NHL, the OPC sets were usually double the size of the Topps set, and at least in one year, perhaps more, there was ONLY OPC, no Topps set, issued.

Finally, especially important when you are collecting the days when there was one set per year, it gives you another card to add to your collection, one that's slightly different.

Now that I'm collecting hockey, I also know there is a historical continuity aspect to them. The first OPC sets date to the 1930s, and are still being produced today- although there were breaks in there, and they don't make their own now, but are produced by Upper Deck...it's still O-Pee-Chee.

My first pack of O-Pee-Chee baseball was when I was visting in Quebec City at a chinese resturaunt around 1992. They had frogs legs on the menu. I passed on those.

Aha! Thanks Billy! I think I knew they were bi-lingual, but the rest of that information was new to me. I'm pretty sure I have one pack worth of 1992 OPC baseball in my collection and that's it. I'll have to expand my collecting horizons soon!

Fifth "Card of the Day Selection" for me.  All O Pee Chee baseball. My #1 Collecting goal - have every OPC baseball card in my collection (1965-1994).

If I were a rich man, I too would strive for ALL the NHL OPC sets. Alas after being back in for about 5 years now, I go back no further than 2007 set wise. Its a long, expensive process. Excellent write up Billy, that is exactly why we north of the border love OPC as much as we do, its "Canadian"! =D

Great information Billy, I do not have many OPC baseball card. Cool vintage card

Glad I was able to help. I'm a recent fan of the OPC sets myself, I didn't get my first OPC card until January 2015. Now I've got a few hundred, 99% hockey..The 2017-18 set is due out next month and I hope to get a blaster at least. the 2016-17 set was sold out locally by the time I began collecting, I didn't get my first card from that set until I did a trade with a card blogger a few weeks ago. Then I got a few more in my COMC order that I'm going to be blogging out for the next month. (maybe not that long, lol)

I actually have more OPC baseball than Topps flagship I think...I was given a big stack of the 1991 set, which has a great design.

(Edit...thinking is not my strong suit today...checked the Stats page...flagship Topps baseball- 433 cards. O-Pee-Chee...38. Duh!)

Unfortunately for me it appears they never did an NBA set, though they did have a parallel in the standard Topps set a couple of times.

1973  the very first wax boxes I ever opened. Would that I still had those cards and the hundreds of wrappers I threw away!

Being retired US Air Force, the cartoon caught my eye. It's an F-86 Sabrejet. Cute, but inaccurate. Knowles went active in 1968. By then the F-86 was no longer in active USAF service.