O Pee Chee

SummaryInformation about the sportscard manufacturer O-Pee-Chee

From 1965 until 1992, O-Pee-Chee produced an annual baseball set that was identical in design to that particular year's Topps baseball set, but with French and English text on the back. In most years, the size of the OPC set was about half that of Topps, with a heavy bias towards players from the Montreal Expos and Toronto Blue Jays.

In 1968, Topps and O-Pee-Chee expanded their relationship to hockey cards, which lasted until 1993. Like the OPC baseball sets, the OPC hockey sets used the same layout of the Topps hockey set, only in two languages. Unlike OPC baseball, the OPC hockey set was (in most instances) larger and more comprehensive than its Topps counterpart.

Beginning in 1991, O-Pee-Chee produced it's first all-original product when it unveiled its "Premier" line, and in 1993 OPC ended it's relationship with Topps. Unfortunately, the baseball strike of 1994 coupled with the hockey lockout was a 1-2 combination that hit the company hard. OPC went out of business in 1995.

In the year 2000, Topps purchased the rights to the O-Pee-Chee name. With Major League Baseball having abandoned Montreal, the market for French language baseball cards has all but disappeared. As a result, Topps now makes the same baseball cards available to Canadian hobby dealers as they do to American ones. On the other hand, Topps did continue to produce separate hockey sets. That is until the 2004-05 hockey lockout which caused Topps to drop their NHL license. It will be a while before we see the OPC name again -- if ever.

O-Pee-Chee is the Canadian brand of cards printed in Canada for the Topps corporation.

1937 O-Pee-Chee Batter Ups V300 (Baseball)

101 John Lewis
102 Jack Hayes
103 Earl Averill
104 Harland Clift
105 Beau Bell
106 Jimmie Foxx
107 Hank Greenberg
108 George Selkirk
109 Wally Moses
110 Gerry Walker
111 Goose Goslin
112 Charlie Gehringer
113 Hal Trosky
114 Buddy Myer
115 Luke Appling
116 Zeke Bonura
117 Tony Lazzeri
118 Joe DiMaggio
119 Bill Dickey
120 Bob Feller
121 Harry Kelley
122 Johnny Allen
123 Bob Johnson
124 Joe Cronin
125 Rip Radcliff
126 Cecil Travis
127 Joe Kuhel
128 Odell Hale
129 Sam West
130 Ben Chapman
131 Monte Pearson
132 Rick Ferrell
133 Tommy Bridges
134 Schoolboy Rowe
135 Vernon Kennedy
136 Red Ruffing
137 Lefty Grove
138 Wes Ferrell
139 Buck Newsom
140 Rogers Hornsby

1933-34 O-Pee-Chee V304A (Hockey)

1 Danny Cox RC
2 Joe Lamb RC
3 Eddie Shore RC
4 Ken Doraty RC
5 Fred Hitchman
6 Nels Stewart RC
7 Walter Galbraith RC
8 Dit Clapper RC
9 Harry Oliver RC
10 Red Horner RC
11 Alex Levinsky RC
12 Joe Primeau RC
13 Ace Bailey RC
14 George Patterson RC
15 George Hainsworth RC
16 Ott Heller RC
17 Art Somers RC
18 Lorne Chabot RC
19 Johnny Gagnon RC
20 Pit Lepine RC
21 Wildor Larochelle RC
22 Georges Mantha RC
23 Howie Morenz
24 Syd Howe RC
25 Frank Finnigan
26 Bill Touhey RC
27 Cooney Weiland RC
28 Leo Bourgeault RC
29 Normie Himes RC
30 Johnny Sheppard
31 King Clancy
32 HapDay
33 Busher Jackson RC
34 Charlie Conacher RC
35 Harold Cotton RC
36 Butch Keeling RC
37 Murray Murdoch RC
38 Bill Cook
39 Ching Johnson RC
40 Hap Emms RC
41 Bert McInenly RC
42 John Sorrell RC
43 Bill Phillips RC
44 Charley McVeigh RC
45 Roy Worters RC
46 Albert Leduc RC
47 Nick Wasnie RC
48 Armand Mondou RC

1936-37 O-Pee-Chee V304D (Hockey)

97 Turk Broda RC
98 Sweeney Schriner RC
99 Jack Shill
100 Bob Davidson RC
101 Syl Apps RC
102 Lionel Conacher
103 Jimmy Fowler
104 Al Murray
105 Neil Colville RC
106 Paul Runge
107 Mike Karakas RC
108 John Gallagher
109 Alex Shibicky RC
110 Herb Cain
111 Bill McKenzie
112 Harold Jackson
113 Art Wiebe
114 Joffre Desilets RC
115 Earl Robinson
116 Cy Wentworth
117 Ebbie Goodfellow
118 Eddie Shore
119 Buzz Boll
120 Wilfred Cude
121 Howie Morenz
122 Red Horner
123 Charlie Conacher
124 Busher Jackson
125 King Clancy
126 Dave Trottier
127 Russ Blinco
128 Lynn Patrick
129 Aurel Joliat
130 Baldy Northcott
131 Larry Aurie
132 Hooley Smith

1937-38 O-Pee-Chee V304E (Hockey)

133 Turk Broda
134 Red Horner
135 Jimmy Fowler
136 Bob Davidson
137 Reg. Hamilton
138 Charlie Conacher
139 Busher Jackson
140 Buzz Boll
141 Syl Apps
142 Gordie Drillon RC
143 Bill Thoms
144 Nick Metz
145 Pep Kelly
146 Murray Armstrong RC
147 Murph Chamberlain RC
148 Des Smith
149 Wilfred Cude
150 Babe Siebert
151 Bill MacKenzie
152 Aurel Joliat
153 Georges Mantha
154 Johnny Gagnon
155 Paul Haynes
156 Joffre Desilets
157 George Allen Brown RC
158 Paul Drouin RC
159 Pit Lepine
160 Toe Blake RC
161 Bill Beveridge
162 Allan Shields
163 Cy Wentworth
164 Stew Evans
165 Earl Robinson
166 Baldy Northcott
167 Paul Runge
168 Dave Trottier
169 Russ Blinco
170 Jimmy Ward
171 Bob Gracie
172 Herb Cain
173 Gus Marker
174 Walter Buswell RC
175 Carl Voss
176 Rod Lorraine
177 Armand Mondou
178 Cliff(Red) Goupille
179 Jerry Shannon
180 Tom Cook

1939-40 O-Pee-Chee V301-1 (Hockey)

1 Reg Hamilton
2 Turk Broda
3 Bingo Kampman
4 Gordie Drillon
5 Bob Davidson
6 Syl Apps
7 Pete Langelle
8 Don Metz
9 Pep Kelly
10 Red Horner
11 Wally Stanowsky
12 Murph Chamberlain
13 Bucko MacDonald
14 Sweeney Schriner
15 Billy Taylor
16 Gus Marker
17 Hooley Smith
18 Art Chapman
19 Murray Armstrong
20 Busher Jackson
21 Buzz Boll
22 Cliff(Red) Goupille
23 Rod Lorraine
24 Paul Drouin
25 Johnny Gagnon
26 Georges Mantha
27 Armand Mondou
28 Claude Bourque RC
29 Ray Getliffe
30 Cy Wentworth
31 Paul Haynes
32 Walter Buswell
33 Ott Heller
34 Arthur Coulter
35 Clint Smith RC
36 Lynn Patrick
37 Dave Kerr
38 Murray Patrick
39 Neil Colville
40 Jack Portland
41 Flash Hollett
42 Herb Cain
43 Mud Bruneteau
44 Joffre DeSilets
45 Harold(Mush) March
46 Cully Dahlstrom
47 Mike Karakas
48 Bill Thoms
49 Art Wiebe
50 Johnny Gottselig
51 Nick Metz
52 Jack Church
53 Bob(Red) Heron
54 Hank Goldup
55 Jimmy Fowler
56 Charlie Sands
57 Marty Barry
58 Doug Young
59 Charlie Conacher
60 John Sorrell
61 Tommy Anderson RC
62 Lorne Carr
63 Earl Robertson RC
64 Wilfy Field
65 Jimmy Orlando
66 Ebbie Goodfellow
67 Jack Keating
68 Sid Abel RC
69 Gus Giesebrecht
70 Don Deacon
71 Hec Kilrea
72 Syd Howe
73 Eddie Wares
74 Carl Liscombe
75 Tiny Thompson
76 Earl Seibert
77 Des Smith
78 Les Cunningham
79 George Allen RC
80 Bill Carse
81 Bill McKenzie
82 Ab DeMarco
83 Phil Watson
84 Alf Pike
85 Babe Pratt RC
86 Bryan Hextall RC
87 Kilby MacDonald
88 Alex Shibicky
89 Dutch Hiller
90 Mac Colville
91 Roy Conacher RC
92 Cooney Weiland
93 Art Jackson
94 Woody Dumart RC
95 Dit Clapper
96 Mel Hill
97 Frank Brimsek RC
98 Bill Cowley RC
99 Bobby Bauer RC
100 Eddie Shore

1940-41 O-Pee-Chee V301-2 (Hockey)

101 Toe Blake
102 Charlie Sands
103 Wally Stanowski
104 Jack Adams
105 Johnny Mowers RC
106 Johnny Quilty
107 Billy Taylor
108 Turk Broda
109 Bingo Kampman
110 Gordie Drillon
111 Don Metz
112 Paul Haynes
113 Gus Marker
114 Alex Singbush
115 Alex Motter
116 Ken Reardon RC
117 Pete Langelle
118 Syl Apps
119 Reg. Hamilton
120 Cliff(Red) Goupille
121 Joe Benoit RC
122 Sweeney Schriner RC
123 Joe Carveth RC
124 Jack Stewart RC
125 Elmer Lach RC
126 Jack Schewchuk
127 Norman Larson
128 Don Grosso
129 Lester Douglas
130 Turk Broda
131 Max Bentley RC
132 Milt Schmidt RC
133 Nick Metz
134 Jack Crawford
135 Bill Benson RC
136 Lynn Patrick
137 Cully Dahlstrom
138 Mud Bruneteau
139 Dave Kerr
140 Bob(Red) Heron
141 Nick Metz
142 Ott Heller
143 Phil Hergesheimer
144 Tony Demers
145 Archie Wilder
146 Syl Apps
147 Ray Getliffe
148 Lex Chisholm RC
149 Eddie Wiseman
150 Paul Goodman RC