1970 O-Pee-Chee CFL John Reid #22 Offensive Centre Hamilton Tiger-Cats VG-EX 4

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1970 O-Pee-Chee CFL John Reid #22 Offensive Centre Hamilton Tiger-Cats VG-EX 4 Long before the long snapper became a rostered specialist with his own jersey number and his own highlight reels, the job belonged to the offensive centre, and John Reid of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats did it with the kind of quiet precision that coaches build game plans around. This listing offers a single raw copy of Reid's 1970 O-Pee-Chee CFL card, number 22 in the set, the second of two Reid copies from the photographed nine-card sleeve, pictured in the top-middle front slot and priced honestly to reflect a visible crease detailed below. The bilingual card back tells Reid's story in both official languages: a University of Tulsa product standing six foot four and weighing 280 pounds, he spent one season as a back-up man before earning the first string job, and he was very reliable on punt snaps. That reliability mattered for a Hamilton powerhouse of the period, a club that rolled through the 1971 and 1972 seasons and ultimately claimed the Grey Cup at home in December 1972, beating Saskatchewan 13 to 10 when rookie Ian Sunter's kick sailed through on the final play at Ivor Wynne Stadium. The card itself is a pure slice of Canadian hobby history, part of the O-Pee-Chee CFL series printed only in Canada, its reverse split between English and French against that dramatic black background with a green cartoon panel, this one cheerfully noting that Reid sold cars in Hamilton alongside Tiger-Cats teammate Bob Steiner, a reminder of how modest pro football pay packets were in the early seventies. The front image is classic OPC: Reid towering in jersey number 48, black and gold under the lights, the Tiger-Cats roundel logo anchoring the lower right of the portrait area. With the crease factored into the price, this copy makes an excellent placeholder or set builder for anyone who wants the Reid name in the binder without paying for the sharper twin. Collectors searching 1970 O-Pee-Chee CFL John Reid #22 Offensive Centre Hamilton Tiger-Cats VG-EX 4 are exactly the buyers this listing was written for, collectors who value honesty over hype. the front carries a visible light-to-moderate diagonal crease running across the upper-left area of the photo, accompanied by corner wear with light whitening at the tips and a small nick on the top edge, and centering sits close to 55/45 with colour that remains strong across the portrait; applying the page-flip mapping, this card's reverse appears at the top-middle of the back scan and shows the corresponding crease line crossing the black background, plus mild corner whitening and a small edge nick, with the bilingual text and green cartoon panel still fully legible. This is the Canadian O-Pee-Chee bilingual back version of the card, not a puzzle back. Grade Estimate: VG-EX 4