Sunday, January 4, 2009

Hockey Card of the Day #44

Stan Mikita 72-73 O-Pee-Chee Team Canada, OPC, hockey, hockey cardsNNO - Stan Mikita
72-73 O-Pee-Chee Team Canada
(back)

These decapitated heads were inserted in packs of 72-73 O-Pee-Chee. I like them much better than the regular 72-73 OPC cards, though I think I would like this card even more if Mikita was wearing his trademark bulbous helmet.

Actually, this card probably ranks in my top ten favourite hockey cards, coincidentally with a couple of other cards that also feature people who have had their heads removed-- though in these cases they were reattached on someone else's body: 71-72 Rogie Vachon and Mike Corrigan.

Also notable in the category of cards featuring head transplants is the '74 Nabisco Sugar Daddy set that placed pro-athletes heads on cartoon bodies. Derek Sanderson's card is my favourite of that bunch.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

keep posting ... more hockey

Anonymous said...

I just found your site, looks cool, lots of old cards. Some good some hilarious!

Keep it up.

-Justin

Bruce said...

Well, his full name is Stanislav, so I decided to let that slide.

Anonymous said...

Don't you just love the old Soviet flag, with the Hammer and Sickle on it, featuring so prominently on it?

I suspect this card with the Soviet flag on it wouldn't have been released in Topps, because for fear of them being labelled "commies"

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s a r a said...

This is probably one of the most amazing hockey cards EVER!!!