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Mark Messier
1980 · O-Pee-Chee Hockey · #289
Messier’s #289 rookie in PSA’s 1980 O-Pee-Chee set profile.
- Sport
- Hockey
- Year / season
- 1980
- Set
- O-Pee-Chee Hockey
- Number
- #289
- Format
- Card
- Issue status
- Rookie card
About this card
Mark Messier’s 1980 O-Pee-Chee Hockey card is number 289 in that release. O-Pee-Chee, based in London, Ontario, printed Canadian hockey cards for decades, often using Topps designs with bilingual English and French text. Upper Deck now makes cards under the O-Pee-Chee name.
The catalog labels this a rookie card, based on the source cited below.
How to identify it
An O-Pee-Chee card and the Topps card of the same year can look nearly identical. Check the back for the O-Pee-Chee name and bilingual text, because the two are separate issues.
In Mark Messier’s run
This is the only Mark Messier entry in the catalog so far.
In the 1980 checklist
The catalog’s selected checklist for the 1980 O-Pee-Chee Hockey release also includes Ray Bourque and Wayne Gretzky. It is a partial checklist of cataloged cards, not the full release.
What to know about this issue
- The set profile identifies Messier’s rookie as #289.
- This is an issue reference; matching its number does not authenticate a physical copy.
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The issue stays 1980 · O-Pee-Chee Hockey. These are research checks, not a condition assessment of a specimen.
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