Enforcers Series Marty McSorley 1987 Rookie OPC O-Pee-Chee #205 RC HHA 9.5

Description: Part of the Hockey History Archive's Enforcers / legends of the game series compromised of the toughest and most feared fighters in NHL history (Enforcers Series II #223-1), deemed one of the most significant cards in NHL history. Marty McSorley was a loved and controversial enforcer and feared fighter in the NHL whose career was marred by one momentary loss of control. He spent a significant portion of his career defending Wayne Gretzky in his prime. This rookie card has been authenticated and graded by HHA and it is in a nice protective case with an HHA series label. Part of the Hockey History Archives' Enforcers Series (#124-1) as one of the most historically significant players and cards, graded and authenticated by the HHA. Get the entire Enforcer Series, with 3 series with 33 enforcers in each series along with bonus cards of many enforcers. On HHA: HHA is a new hobby card authenticating, grading, reclamation, and historical collection, packaging and presentation service. We reclaim and regrade cards that investor-focused groups like PSA have, in our opinion, bumbled and failed to recognize the true collectible nature and historical value of. Most of their graders are young, trained internally, have no personal history or experience with sports cards, and frankly frequently arbitrarily grade cards in ways that baffle, make no sense, and show a reckless indifference and ignorance to what sports cards were intended to be. HHA is owned and operated by people who not only have degrees in history and historiography, but perhaps even more importantly have themselves been buying and collecting cards since they were kids, so we combine a historians eye and anthropological knowledge, with the personal lifelong experience of collecting trading cards that cannot be taught. You cannot teach the knowledge that comes from, for instance, being a kid in the 1970s buying cards for 10 and 25 cents a pack then flipping through gum-dust sprinkled cards while chewing on the usually awful gum and regarding every pack like wrapped Christmas presents and not knowing what treasures or hero might become a part of your collection as you flipped though your cards. And then watching over the decades as the industry and prices and quality all changed, transforming it from a street-level industry selling sports idols and dreams to kids, to today where we see cards selling for $20 a pack and mad rushes by money hungry card speculators who have robbed the industry from kids by making it largely financially inaccessible to kids and instead giving it to day traders and speculators many of whom do not even watch hockey or the sports they collect. HHA hopes to put some of the honesty and character back into collecting and finding that balance between building a valuable collection while not discarding cards that in their inception were never meant to be perfect and in fact much of their charm came from their simplicity and imperfection.

Price: 29 CAD

Location: Summerland, British Columbia

End Time: 2024-09-23T08:49:54.000Z

Shipping Cost: 7.27 CAD