1990 O-Pee-Chee Baseball Forum

Thank you for this work! 

Questions/Observations;

- Is it possible the white backs are more common in complete sets, but less common in wax?  I purchased one complete set and beleive I received all of the white backs, zero of the grey backs from the "B" sheet cards (labelled as such in 1990 Topps).  

- Should this sub-parrallel group also be tagged under "errors/variations", or does the card stock not count as a variation?

- Shouldn't 1990 O-Pee-Chee baseball be tagged in 1990 Topps baseball as a parallel or variation (and vice versa)?

(Something I should post elsewhere; In general it seems like "Theme", "Reprints", and "Buybacks(?)" would be categories to add to cards that have been reprinted since, or used the same print "Theme" as a set.  If I click on the 1990 Topps Frank Thomas, I could hit "reprints" to see the copius amount that exist, etc.)

Thanks!

I will address one of the points here:

- Shouldn't 1990 O-Pee-Chee baseball be tagged in 1990 Topps baseball as a parallel or variation (and vice versa)?

No. They were completely separate products, not available in the same packs. They remain separate for that very reason alone.

Interesting about getting them all in one complete set. Was it a true FS or a set collected by someone else that you bought?  

A true Factory Set, apeared unopend.

Very nice to see this revived after a few years.

I am an OPC collector.  I can tell you that I have bought three or four factory sets over the years and five or six boxes, some of which I have opened. 

If i remember correctly, the 'white backs' in factory sets were 'bulked' all togther at one end (I think the back) of the factory box. I'm going to guess that it was about 132 cards because that is, I think, the size of a sheet of uncut cards. This could constitute the 'entire set' of white backs but I don't know.

I will say that opening packs, both back in the day and recently, I have come across both white backs and regular backs in packs (what I mean by that is that the cards that have white backs also came in 'grey' backs in those packs... however I don't know if one box just had white backs or some boxes just has grey backs.

To me, this seems like the same thing that kind of happened in 1981 with OPC baseball.  I can say this because I happened to chat with the head of early 80s distrubution while I was at a show in the early 90s (I live very close to London Ontario, where the factory was).  He said, if I remember correctly, that because Hockey cards came out early in the year -- and because Gretzky was so popular -- they couldn't keep up with Hockey card demand so they had to dip into the card stock they had reserved for baseball cards in the spring.  So, they ran out of white card stock and had to find a new supplier.  That supplier only had grey stock (hence the 1981 late run Grey Backs).  I don't know for sure but I suspect this was the case for 1990 as the baseball card market (thanks to UD and Griffey) was at an all time high and they may have ran out of the stock they had and had to dip into their non-sport stock, which was whiter than the first runs of baseball sheets.  

I love this variation because after all these years, it is still challenging to finish without the price!  Lots of folks don't know about it.  I don't care about value, of course, but it is fun to go to shows and sift through 1990 OPC cards and try to find the 'DARK STOCK' of the cards because I believe the WHITE STOCK is more common than the normal grey stock for that one sheet (132 blue-bordered cards). Looking to trade, also.

I have plenty of grey stock but have not completed any white stock set.  I think the white is the rare one.

Would anyone who has both versions of a player be able to provide a photo with them side by side in one shot?  I'm curious as to what I need to look for.  It's hard to tell in individual scans how much of a difference there is.

You are right Sandyrusty! Only few of the white stocks. I have plenty of the grey's even the light blue border.

I tried uploading a scan but it's not letting me. 

I tried as well but same thing.