1971 O-Pee-Chee Bobby Taylor #64 Flanker Hamilton Tiger-Cats

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1971 O-Pee-Chee Bobby Taylor #64 Flanker Hamilton Tiger-Cats This 1971 O-Pee-Chee Bobby Taylor card celebrates one of the most productive Canadian receivers of his generation, the veteran flanker the Tiger-Cats called "Monk." Bobby Taylor ranks among the great early Tiger-Cats, and this card captures him in the black-and-gold of Hamilton at a moment when he was already one of the most decorated pass catchers in Canadian Football League history. It is a classic 1971 O-Pee-Chee CFL issue, a full-bleed colour action photo with a bold name banner and the bilingual O-Pee-Chee back that defines early-70s Canadian cards. Card history: the 1971 O-Pee-Chee CFL set spans 132 cards across all nine CFL teams, with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats at numbers 61 through 75. O-Pee-Chee, Canada's legendary trading card brand out of London, Ontario, printed every back in English and French, a bilingual format that makes these issues unmistakable and highly collectible today. Card #64 belongs to the heart of the Tiger-Cats run. The back notes that Taylor, a 5'9", 195-pound flanker, sold advertising space in the off-season, that he came to the Ti-Cats from the Toronto Argonauts, and that at the time of printing he was the third all-time leading pass receiver in CFL history. Player achievements: Bobby Taylor was a longtime CFL standout whose career spanned the late 1950s through the early 1970s, starring with both the Toronto Argonauts and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. When this 1971 O-Pee-Chee Bobby Taylor card was issued, he ranked third all-time in CFL receptions, a remarkable feat for a Canadian-born player in an era when the biggest names were imports. His nickname "Monk" was a familiar byline in CFL game-day programs, and he remains part of the proud history of Tiger-Cats and Argonauts receiving. For set builders, the 1971 O-Pee-Chee CFL is one of the most affordable ways to collect vintage CFL team runs, and the Hamilton section is among the most popular in Canada, which keeps steady demand for every card in the run. assessed from the high-resolution 1200-DPI scan of both sides. The card shows four sharp corners with no visible rounding or whitening, clean edges with no chipping or fraying, and a surface that presents free of creases, wrinkles, indentations or marks in the scan. The front photo is framed evenly and the back frame shows well-balanced centering with no obvious print offset. The 1971 O-Pee-Chee Bobby Taylor card was scanned inside a protective sleeve, so fine handling marks can be masked by sleeve reflection; grading conservatively from the photos, the raw Grade Estimate: EX-MT 6