The complete set of 396 1979-80
O-Pee-Chee hockey cards is valued at around $1400. Just what cards
other than the Gretzky rookie card account for the rest of the set’s
value? It turns out, there is nothing enormously outstanding but
still there are some important cards.
Gordie Howe
The next most valuable card in the
series belongs to Gordie Howe. The 1979-80 O-Pee-Chee #175 of Howe
with the Hartford Whalers is the final card ever produced of ‘Mr.
Hockey’. The card is valued at $30. This is a far cry from his
first card that came out three decades before. The 1951-52 Parkhurst
Gordie Howe rookie card is valued at $3000.
Bobby Hull
Card number 185 belonged to another NHL
legend in his final season. Bobby Hull of the Winnipeg Jets is valued
at $25 on cardboard. Just like the Gordie
Howe rookie card, the 1958-59 Topps Bobby Hull rookie card is
also valued at $3000. Interestingly, the Topps version of the 1979-80
Bobby Hull card shows him as a member of the Chicago Black Hawks. In
the end, Hull split his final season in the National Hockey League
with the Jets and Hartford Whalers.
Mike Bossy
Mike Bossy’s great NHL career was
just blossoming in 1979-80, only to be overshadowed by the
accomplishments of Gretzky. The New York Islanders sniper was
featured on card number 230. The card is valued at $20. 1979-80 was
the third of Bossy’s ten seasons in the NHL. His career was cut
short due to injury and he left the game surpassing the 50 goal
plateau in every season but his last.
Barry Melrose
The next highest rated rookie card from
the 1979-80 O-Pee-Chee series, behind Gretzky’s, is one for the
trivia books. Believe it or not, the Barry
Melrose rookie card, number 386, is valued at $10, $4 more than
the next most valuable rookie. Melrose had played 178 games in the
World Hockey Association with the Cincinnati Stingers over the three
previous seasons. He came to the NHL with the Winnipeg Jets and
played a total of 300 regular season NHL games between 1979-80 and
1985-86 with the Jets, Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings.
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