Last week, we talked about Sports Day in Japan. In sticking with the holiday theme, Monday was Thanksgiving in Canada. In honor of that, this week’s featured product was printed in Canada.

1991 O-Pee-Chee Premier Baseball features a small, 132-card base checklist. The base cards have a clean design with white borders and have each player’s position printed in English and French on the card front.

Being 1991, there are no inserts to find in this one, just base cards. While that kills some of the fun when ripping, there are 25 Hall of Fame players included on the checklist. It is always fun to pull HOFers from packs.

1991 O-Pee-Chee Premier Baseball Box Break 

Cards per pack: 7
Packs per box: 36
Price paid: $10 

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Pack 1 highlights:

Robin Yount and Darryl Strawberry

Pack 2:

Kirby Puckett, Willie McGee and Orel Hershiser

Pack 3:

Sandy Alomar Jr., Albert Belle, Terry Pendleton, Dennis Eckersley and Rickey Henderson

Sadly, Sandy Alomar Sr. passed away on October 13. He was 81 years old.

Pack 4:

Kirk Gibson, Eric Davis and Alan Trammell

Pack 5:

Dave Stieb

Stieb played 16 seasons in the majors, appearing in all but four games for the Canadian Toronto Blue Jays. He posted a 3.44 career ERA over 443 games.

Pack 6:

Doc Gooden and Robin Yount

Pack 7:

Kirby Puckett and Gary Gaetti

Pack 8:

Delino DeShields, Ron Gant and Darryl Strawberry

Pack 9:

Cecil Fielder, Dave Righetti and George Bell

Pack 10:

Andres Galarraga, Brett Butler and Don Mattingly

Galarraga played parts of eight seasons north of the border, hitting .269 with 115 home runs and 473 RBI for the Montreal Expos.

Pack 11:

Jose Canseco, Andre Dawson and Ken Griffey Jr.

Pack 12:

Cal Ripken, Dave Winfield, Dave Parker, Bernard Gilkey and Ruben Sierra

Pack 13:

Dave Stewart, Roger Clemens, Otis Nixon and Denny Martinez

Martinez’s best years came in Canada pitching for the Expos. Over eight seasons in Montreal, Martinez went 100-72 with a 3.06 ERA, and he fired a perfect game in 1991.

Pack 14:

Vince Coleman, Tony Fernandez, Dale Murphy, Roberto Alomar, Tino Martinez and Ozzie Smith

Pack 15:

Pedro Guerrero, Bernie Williams, Ken Griffey Jr., Jack Morris and Will Clark

Pack 16:

Eddie Murray, Jeff Conine RC and Don Mattingly

Pack 17:

Jose Canseco, Barry Bonds, Andre Dawson and Andres Galarraga

Pack 18:

Ron Gant and Doc Gooden

Pack 19:

Tim “Rock” Raines, Paul Molitor, Juan Gonzalez, Ryne Sandberg and Shawon Dunston

Pack 20:

Cecil Fielder and Jimmy Key

Key finished second in AL Cy Young voting following the 1987 season. He went 17-8 with a league-leading 2.76 ERA. Roger Clemens (deservedly so) won the award. Key was again runner-up in 1994, finishing second to David Cone.

Pack 21:

Ray Lankford, George Brett and Dwight Evans

Pack 22:

Frank Thomas, Fred McGriff and Moises Alou

Pack 23:

Kevin Mitchell, Tom Henke, Carlton Fisk, Mo Vaughn and Tony Gwynn

Pack 24:

Benito Santiago, Nolan Ryan, David Justice, Joe Carter and John Olerud

Joe Carter hit the most famous home run in the history of Canadian baseball when he belted a three-run walk-off home run in Game 6 to win the World Series for Toronto in 1993.

Pack 25:

Kirk Gibson, Eric Davis, Gary Carter and Wade Boggs

Pack 26:

Alan Trammell and Dave Stieb

Pack 27:

Gary Carter, Nolan Ryan and John Olerud

Hall of Famer Gary Carter played 12 seasons in Montreal, and was named an All-Star in seven of those seasons.

Pack 28:

Rickey Henderson and Albert Belle

Pack 29:

Robin Yount

Pack 30:

Darryl Strawberry and Delino DeShields

Pack 31:

Kirby Puckett, Doc Gooden and Ron Gant

Pack 32:

Eric Davis and Dennis Eckersley

Pack 33:

Albert Belle, Sandy Alomar, Kirk Gibson and Rickey Henderson

Pack 34:

Alan Trammell and Kevin Maas

Pack 35:

Will Clark and Barry Bonds

Pack 36:

Devon White, Eddie Murray, Bernie Williams and Jack Morris

Lastly, the Murray card back. Not a ton going on here, but there you see the “Ptd. in Canada” text.

Not the most exciting rip, with no inserts to chase back in the early ’90s. However, it was still fun to add new cards of Hall of Fame players to the binders.

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