1971 O-Pee-Chee Bob Steiner #73 Defensive Tackle Hamilton Tiger-Cats

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1971 O-Pee-Chee Bob Steiner #73 Defensive Tackle Hamilton Tiger-Cats This 1971 O-Pee-Chee Bob Steiner card tells one of the great local-boy-makes-good stories in Hamilton football, the card of a defensive tackle who went straight from Hamilton's Central Secondary School to the Tiger-Cats, a rarity at any level of professional sport. Steiner's card is part of the celebrated 1971 O-Pee-Chee CFL Tiger-Cats run, with the full-bleed colour action photo, bold team banner, and the bilingual O-Pee-Chee back that collectors of vintage CFL cards prize. It is a fascinating piece of Canadian football history for anyone who loves the stories behind the cards. Card history: the 1971 O-Pee-Chee CFL set spans 132 cards across all nine Canadian Football League teams, with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats at numbers 61 through 75. Printed by O-Pee-Chee of London, Ontario, the set is known for its full-bleed photography and its bilingual backs, which render every English biography in French, an iconic feature of Canadian cards. Card #73 is Bob Steiner's issue. The back notes that the 6'4", 215-pound defensive lineman worked as an automobile salesman in the off-season and that he joined the Ti-Cats directly out of high school, making him one of the few players of the era to skip college football entirely. Player achievements: Bob Steiner made the jump from Hamilton high school football straight to the CFL, a remarkable path that few players have ever taken, and he held down a spot on the Tiger-Cats' defensive line in the early 1970s, appearing in all 14 games in 1971. His story is a point of pride for Hamilton football fans, proof that local talent could go from Central Secondary School to the black and gold without a college detour. The off-season notes on these backs give every player a personality beyond the stat sheet, and Steiner's car salesman day job is one of the most charming details in the entire run. 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. assessed from the high-resolution 1200-DPI scan of both sides. The card presents four sharp corners with no visible rounding or whitening, clean edges with no chipping or fraying, and a surface 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 Bob Steiner card was scanned inside a protective sleeve, so fine handling marks can be hidden by sleeve reflection; grading conservatively from the photos, the raw Grade Estimate: EX-MT 6