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Birds, poetry and cards. Really.

I might be the last participant from All Tribe Baseball's Old School OPC Break to post the loot I received. But that's just the way things work around here. Everyone is blogging about the latest and greatest in the hobby, and I can't even get around to some cards from 1992 that I received. That's OK. That's my personality. I'm OK with it. But before I show the cards, I wanted to mention that I always wondered where the name "O-Pee- Chee " originated. So I did a lazy internet search and it turns out the Canadian candy company was named after the robin in "The Song of Hiawatha," the famous poem from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Here are the words: "'Do not shoot us, Hiawatha!' Sang the robin, the Opechee ..." " Opechee " somehow became "O-Pee- Chee " and now when we hear the name, all we think of is hockey and baseball, not a bird in a poem about an Indian tribe. But I guess you could say what we have in ...