1971 O-Pee-Chee Dick Wesolowski #66 Running Back Hamilton Tiger-Cats

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1971 O-Pee-Chee Dick Wesolowski #66 Running Back Hamilton Tiger-Cats This 1971 O-Pee-Chee Dick Wesolowski card is a sharp example of early-70s Canadian football cardboard, featuring the University of North Carolina running back who was beginning to make his mark with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Wesolowski's card is one of the more fun pieces of the 1971 O-Pee-Chee CFL Tiger-Cats run, a full-bleed colour action photo with the bold team banner and the bilingual O-Pee-Chee back that collectors of vintage CFL cards know and love. It is a perfect card for anyone building the complete Hamilton run from this landmark 132-card set. Card history: the 1971 O-Pee-Chee CFL set covers all nine Canadian Football League teams, with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats at card numbers 61 through 75. O-Pee-Chee, Canada's most famous trading card brand, printed every back in English and French, and that bilingual design remains the set's signature. Card #66 is Dick Wesolowski's issue. The back notes that the 6'1", 210-pound running back was a school teacher in the off-season and that this was his sophomore year with the Tabbies, a nickname for the Tiger-Cats that adds a fun period touch to the copy. Player achievements: Dick Wesolowski came to the CFL from the University of North Carolina and became a dependable running back for the Tiger-Cats, contributing to a Hamilton offence that remained among the Eastern Conference's best in the early 1970s. He appeared in all 14 games in the 1971 season, adding 15 receptions out of the backfield to his rushing duties, and he was part of the club's push toward the 1972 Grey Cup championship the following year, a genuine moment in Tiger-Cats history. 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, keeping steady demand for every card in it. 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 Dick Wesolowski 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