1970 O-Pee-Chee CFL Billy Ray Locklin #18 Defensive End Hamilton Tiger-Cats VG-EX 4

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1970 O-Pee-Chee CFL Billy Ray Locklin #18 Defensive End Hamilton Tiger-Cats VG-EX 4 Pass rush with authority, the card back demands, and Billy Ray Locklin spent a career answering. This listing is for a single raw copy of his 1970 O-Pee-Chee CFL card, number 18 with the massive number 50 shining gold on black, and priced frankly to account for the visible crease described in full below. Locklin's journey to this card is one of the great football road stories of its era: a New Mexico State Aggies standout, he joined the Oakland Raiders for the very first season of the American Football League in 1960, an original Raider before the Silver and Black had played a single down. North of the border he became a fixture of the Eastern all-star conversation at defensive end, part of the Montreal Alouettes' Grey Cup triumph in 1970, and then a returning hero in Hamilton, where the bilingual back of this very card picks up the story: after a brief try-out with Denver, Billy Ray came back to Canada to patrol his defensive end position with authority, listed at six foot two and 260 pounds, an import who hit like anything but. The green cartoon panel adds the charm that makes O-Pee-Chee collectors smile, telling us Billy's lucky number is 50, exactly the number he wears in the portrait. Cards from the 1970 O-Pee-Chee CFL series are pure Canadiana, printed in Canada with English and French sharing the black reverse, PRINTED IN CANADA down the edge, and a white-framed colour front portrait that flatters every uniform it touches. With the crease reflected in the asking price, this is the budget-friendly route to a genuinely significant football name, perfect for set builders and original AFL enthusiasts alike. Buyers who search 1970 O-Pee-Chee CFL Billy Ray Locklin #18 Defensive End Hamilton Tiger-Cats VG-EX 4 will find the candour of this listing refreshing and the copy itself entirely serviceable for the binder. the front shows a visible light-to-moderate crease running from the upper edge down into the photo area, light touches at the corner tips, and centering that favours the left border slightly, with colour otherwise deep and the portrait free of stains; applying the page-flip mapping, this card's reverse sits at the bottom-middle of the back scan and displays the corresponding crease line across the black background along with small edge nicks and light corner whitening, while the bilingual text stays crisp and the green cartoon panel remains sharp. This is the Canadian O-Pee-Chee bilingual back version of the card, not a puzzle back. Grade Estimate: VG-EX 4