1970 O-Pee-Chee Larry Boleski #94 Calgary Stampeders CFL Football Card VG 3

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1970 O-Pee-Chee Larry Boleski #94 Calgary Stampeders CFL Football Card VG 3 Every quarterback needs a bodyguard, and the 1970 O-Pee-Chee Larry Boleski #94 honors exactly that kind of player, the six foot four, 240 pound Calgary Stampeders offensive tackle photographed in mid drive stance in the red jersey, white pants and dark boots that Stampeder linemen wore into battle at the old Alberta stadium. The bilingual reverse tells us Boleski was a graduate of the Calgary junior football program and was in his fifth year as a pro when this card was issued, meaning he grew up in the same football culture he later protected professionally, a genuine hometown product blocking for an offence led by star Canadian quarterback Jerry Keeling. His college line reads University of Wyoming, adding an interesting border crosser dimension to his story, an Alberta junior product who refined his craft with the Cowboys before returning home to the Western Conference trenches, where run first offences and brutal weather made oversized linemen the backbone of every competitive roster. The green cartoon panel on the reverse recounts a humorous 1967 training misadventure, the kind of bilingual joke panel that gives the 1970 O-Pee-Chee CFL issue its enduring personality, and the back is the classic Canadian O-Pee-Chee bilingual back, black bordered with English and French text side by side and the PRINTED IN CANADA imprint, a bilingual text back, not a puzzle back. Linemen cards from the 176 card 1970 set are among the most underappreciated by the broader market, yet they are essential for complete Calgary team sets and increasingly sought by collectors who value the era's trench warfare history, so affordable, honestly described copies like this one tend to move quickly. this copy carries a light crease in the lower left corner region visible on close inspection under angled light, rounding and whitening at the bottom corners, a few small nicks along the bottom edge, centering of approximately 55/45, strong surviving color and gloss in the red jersey photograph away from the affected corner, and a black bilingual back that mirrors the corner wear with the English and French biography and green cartoon panel remaining fully readable. Graded conservatively at VG 3 because even a light crease on a card of this vintage caps the technical grade no matter how well the rest of the card presents, making this an honest budget copy of the 1970 O-Pee-Chee Larry Boleski #94 for the Calgary completionist. Grade Estimate: VG 3