the back of wes parker's 1971 card is somewhat inexplicably included in the blog's header.
his card is not a variation (here's the front)
but i wanted to show the cool 'sunburst' photo on the backs of (most of) the 1971 cards, and i chose parker's mug for some reason.here's ron fairly from the years before variations, 1969 to be exact
a bunch of rick monday's former teammates wanted to show their support for his 1977 o-pee-chee variation, and here they are. from 1981, we have burt hooton
who had a variation of his own in 1985;steve howe
who did not have any variations even though he bounced around in the mid 1980's. he either switched teams during the season (1985), or signed as a free agent after missing the previous season(s) due to suspensions (1987, 1991);
bill russell
and reggie smith
sporting their 'vedette' banners;
don stanhouse
sporting don sutton's hair and phil garner's mustache;
steve yeager
looking forward to his shameful 1986 o-pee-chee variation (i really wanted yeager to remain a dodger for life);
and here's a 1982 ron cey in action card (with the man of the hour, rick monday, lurking in the background)
one year before receiving a team variation of his own (one of three appearances the penguin made on the blog);while dave lopes' 1983 card
is one year past his trio of variations, although i think his 1985 variation is the best of lopes' five o-pee-chee variants.
it's been fun (and sometimes tedious) covering the wonder of o-pee-chee cards through the years. i will miss writing about minute changes in photo cropping and cool team variations and wacky airbrushing and odd text variations and even cards that weren't variations. i hope you all enjoyed it.
now, back to timeless teams!
1 comment:
Loved the OPC blog, the '71s are easily my favorites because of the awesome "sunburst" backs.
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