Collecting hockey cards is a hobby that represents an
important part All about the History of the Hockey Card that goes along with learning the game
of hockey just by looking on the back of a hockey card and reading all the information on your favorite player. Collecting the
hockey sets helps you to learn all about the different hockey teams and players. Collecting vintage hockey cards allows us to learn the history of the game of hockey. From the very early tobacco cards through to the present day hockey cards of today, a lot of fun and knowledge can be learned as you develop a hobby where you get to meet and make new friends at the hockey card hobby shop who enjoy a sport that you like.
You get to understand value of items as rare hockey cares command valuable prices. When you think about it and remember something said on your favorite hockey player card like me. I remember that Robert Marvin Hull was born 10 years to the day before me. Hockey card collecting is another unique way we can relate and enjoy the game of hockey. My favorite hockey team was always the Montreal Canadiens now I root for any team that has an ex moosehead player like Alex Tanguay in Colorado or Ladislav Nagy in Phoenix, Jean Sebastien Giguere in Anaheim and even not well known Marc Couinard of Minnesota. I was at a celebrity golf tournament at a local golf course here a few years back. I remember being a
course marshall and it happened that just Grant Fuhr and I were left on the 10th
green at the end of the golf day and we talked and then started walking back up fairway 10 top the clubhouse
talking as we walked and he is the nicest down to earth warmest kind person you would ever want to meet. I would never have been there to enjoy that experience if I
had not collected hockey cards that made me like the game that made me want to be there at that
particular golf tournament at that particular moment. Some things in life are priceless and that moment was one of them.
The first hockey card sets were distributed in cigarette packages during 1910-1913. The first hockey card set was issued in the 1910-1911 season, and was called "Hockey Series", featuring
colored portraits of the leading hockey players of that year. That year hockey players series featured hockey players from the Ottawa, Quebec, Renfrew, Wanderers and Montreal teams.
After World War 1, only one more cigarette set was issued, during the 1924-25 season by Champ's Cigarettes of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Several food and candy manufacturing companies produced sets during the 1920's. Paulin's Candy, Maple Crispette, Crecent, Holland Creameries and La Patrie are among those known to have issued sets. The sets of the 1920's are particularly scarce. I remember in the 1960's saving hockey player caps from Coca Cola.
O-Pee-Chee of of London, Ontario, Canada issued hockey cards up to 1940-1941 when production stopped because of the start of World War 2.
Hockey cards didn't appear again until the 1951-1952 season, with the food companies such as Shirriff Desserts, York Peanut Butter and Post Cereal creating specialty sets to promote their product.
The Parkhurst Products Company of Toronto, Pntario, Canada started producing hockey cards in 1951 with O-Pee-Chee returning to the fray along with a new company called Topps Chewing Gum of Brooklyn, New York, USA who started producing hockey cards during the 1954-1955 season.
After issuing cards in 1954-1955 Topps and O-Pee-Chee did not produce cards over the next couple years, before starting up again during the 1957-58 season. The Parkhurst issues were more regional issues, very plain in graphic presentation and not as
colorful as the other cards produced by the other companies. Parkhurst stopped producing cards in 1964.
In 1968, the Topps Chewing Gum Company and O-Pee-Chee formed an alliance and were the only major card companies to produce hockey cards up to 1994-1995 season when O-Pee-Chee discontinued
producing cards. Then in 1995-1996 season, Topps could not reach an agreement with the NHL and NHLPA to produce hockey cards. The main reason no agreement could be struck is that the NHL and NHLPA wanted to much money for the license that the card companies had to get from them that allowed them to produce licensed hockey cards.
In the early 1990's dawned a new era in card collecting as a rush of new card companies came on board in 1990-1991 such as Pro Set, Score, Pinnacle and Upper Deck and the resurgent of OPC and Topps which was followed in 1991-1992 by Fleer and Donruss in 1993-1994 and even the Parkhurst card line re-surfaced again. The first company to leave was Pro Set in 1992-1993 after 3 years in business.
The present day there is Upper Deck, Pacific, Topps and OPC who each produce up to as many as 7 hockey card sets per season.
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