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You are bidding on a LOT OF "14" BOBBY ORR High graded, BVG 9.5's and Pristine 10's, including a "PACK CARD" in 9.5 gem mint, of his rookie card. (Yes, a pack card!) This card is perfectly centered, 50/50 front and back!!! See all 12 of the scans below.
A possible PSA 9 or 10 waiting to be crossed over! "The only PSA 9 mint sold at the MastroNet auction, in April of 2007, for $47,923.00!"
The "14" Card lot includes the following cards:1. 1966-67 Topps #35 Rookie Card, BVG 9.5 gem mint!2. 1967-68 Topps # 92 2nd year card, BVG 9.5, .5 away from a BVG 10! (1/1)3.1967-68 Topps #118 Calder Trophy card, BVG 9.5 with 2 10's! (1/1)4. 1967-68 Topps #128 All Star card, BVG 9.5! (1/1)5.1969-70 OPC #212 All Star Card, BVG 9.5! (1/1)6.1970-71 OPC #236 All Star 1 Card, BVG Pristine 10! This is the oldest Beckett Pristine 10 hockey card that exists!!! (1/1)7. 1970-71 OPC #246 Hart Trophy Winner Card, BVG 9.5!8. 1970-71 OPC #248A James Norris Trophy Winner, BVG 9.5! (1/1) 9. 1970-71 OPC #252 Conn Smythe Trophy Winner, BVG 9.5! (1/1) 10. 1971-72 OPC #245 Double Card, Norris & Hart Trophy, BVG 9.5! 11. 1972-73 OPC #129 regular issue card, BVG 9.5! (1/1) 12. 1975-76 OPC #100, regular issue card & the only Pristine 10 regular issue Bobby Orr Card, BVG Pristine 10! (1/1) 13. 1975-76 OPC #209 Orr, Clarke, Mahovlich Assist Leaders, BVG 9.5! 14. 1977-78 OPC #251 regular issue card, with two 10's, BVG 9.5!
I have included the Beckett population reports for you below, just to show you how rare these cards really are.
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| Set | Player | # | 1.0 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 5.5 | 6.0 | 6.5 | 7.0 | 7.5 | 8.0 | 8.5 | 9.0 | 9.5 | 10 | Total |
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| 1966-67 Topps | Bobby Orr | 35 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 110 |
| 1966-67 Topps USA Test | Bobby Orr | 35 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 1967-68 Topps | Bobby Orr Calder | 118 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 30 |
| 1967-68 Topps | Bobby Orr AS | 128 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 19 |
| 1967-68 Topps | Bobby Orr | 92 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 38 |
| Position | Defence |
| Shot | Left |
| Height Weight |
6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) 200 lb (91 kg; 14 st 4 lb) |
| Pro clubs | Boston Bruins Chicago Black Hawks |
| Nationality | |
| Born | March 20, 1948 (1948-03-20) , Parry Sound, ON Canada |
| Pro career | 1966 – 1978 |
| Hall of Fame, 1979 | |
Robert Gordon "Bobby" Orr, OC (born March 20, 1948) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player. A defenceman, he is considered to be one of the greatest hockey players of all time.[1][2] He played his National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Boston Bruins, with the exception of two brief seasons with the Chicago Black Hawks.
Orr won two Stanley Cup championships with the Bruins in 1970 & 1972 and was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoff MVP both years. Winning a record eight Norris Trophies as the league's best defenceman, Orr is often credited for revolutionizing his position.[3] He remains the only defenceman to have won the league scoring title with two Art Ross Trophies and holds the record for most points and assists in a single-season by a defenceman.
After his retirement, he became a player agent, a position he holds today.
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Born in Parry Sound, Ontario, Orr displayed his hockey talents at a very early age. He started skating and playing shinny at age four. He was discovered by the Boston Bruins at a bantam tournament in Ontario, prompting the club to invest $1,000 to sponsor his team and earn his rights.[3] He was signed by the Bruins at age 12 and as a 14-year-old, played for the Oshawa Generals in the junior league Ontario Hockey Association, competing against eighteen-, nineteen- and twenty-year-olds; National Hockey League rules dictated that he could not join the Boston Bruins before reaching eighteen. In his third season, Orr led the Generals to the OHA championship, winning the J. Ross Robertson Cup, and competing in the Memorial Cup Final in 1966. In his final season with Oshawa he averaged two points a game. Prominent Toronto lawyer Alan Eagleson negotiated his first contract with the Bruins, a $25,000 salary at a time when the typical maximum rookie salary was $8,000.[3] At the time it made Orr the highest-paid player in league history.
In his first professional season, he won the Calder Memorial Trophy as the league's most outstanding rookie. Late in the season, however, he missed nine games with a knee injury — presaging such woes through his career — when Detroit Red Wings defenceman Marcel Pronovost checked him into the boards. While the perennially cellar-dwelling Bruins finished in last place that season, Orr sparked a renaissance that propelled the Bruins to make the playoffs the following twenty-nine straight seasons. New York Rangers defenceman Harry Howell, the winner of the Norris Trophy as the league's best defenceman in Orr's rookie year, famously predicted that he was glad to win when he did, because "Orr will own this trophy from now on."[3]
An injury to his right knee limited Orr to just 46 games in the 1968 season, but he nonetheless won the first of eight straight Norris trophies. In 1970, he did the unthinkable, doubling his scoring total from the previous season to score 120 points, six shy of the league record and becoming the first (and to date, only) defenceman in history to win the Art Ross Trophy as the league's leading scorer. Besides the Norris and Art Ross, Orr also captured the first of his three consecutive Hart Trophies as regular-season MVP and later won the Conn Smythe Trophy for his playoff heroics, being the only player in history to win four major NHL awards in one season. He went on to lead the Bruins in a march through the playoffs that culminated on May 10, 1970, when he scored one of the most famous goals in hockey history to give Boston its first Stanley Cup in 29 years. The subsequent image of a horizontal Orr flying through the air, his arms raised in victory—he had been tripped by Blues' defenceman Noel Picard at the moment of shooting—became a prize-winning photograph and is arguably the most famous and recognized hockey image of all time.
The following year, 1971, in a season where the powerhouse Bruins shattered dozens of league offensive records, Orr finished second in league scoring while setting records that still stand for points in a season by a defenceman and for plus/minus (+124) by any position player. Orr's Bruins were heavy favourites to repeat as Cup champions, but were upset by the Montreal Canadiens and their rookie goaltender Ken Dryden. Orr led the Bruins to the Stanley Cup again in 1972, leading the league in scoring in the playoffs and scoring the championship-winning goal en route to his second Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP.
His knee problems would take an increasing toll after 1973. Despite being limited by knee injuries which would later force him to retire early, he continued to dominate the National Hockey League during his career, leading the Bruins to another first place league finish and the Stanley Cup Final in 1974. In a shortened career, he still won the James Norris Memorial Trophy as the league's most outstanding defenceman eight times, more than any other player in NHL history.
In 1976, despite several knee operations that left him playing in severe pain, Orr was named the most valuable player in the Canada Cup international competition.
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At the end of the 1976 season, the Bruins offered Orr one of the most lucrative contracts in sports history, including over 18% ownership in the Bruins organization. However, Eagleson, who by this time was doubling as Orr's agent and executive director of the NHLPA, falsely told Orr that the Chicago Black Hawks had a better deal.[citation needed] Conventional wisdom in NHL circles has long held that Eagleson never told Orr about the Bruins' offer of part-ownership.[citation needed] That is belied, however, by Eagleson's public disclosure of the Bruins' ownership offer - for example, the day before Orr signed with Chicago, Eagleson was quoted in the Toronto Star as saying "[Boston] offered a five-year deal at $925,000 or 18.6 percent ownership of the club in 1980." Then on June 9, 1976, after Orr signed with Chicago, Eagleson told the Toronto Globe and Mail that "Orr was to receive $925,000 in cash payable in June 1980. That was to be a cash payment or involve Orr's receiving 18.6 percent of the Bruins stock."[4] Years later, it emerged that Eagleson had very good relations with Black Hawks owner Bill Wirtz.
Orr subsequently signed with Chicago, but his injuries rendered him too severely hurt to play effectively, and, after playing in only 26 games over the next three seasons, retired in 1979. Famously, he never cashed a Chicago pay check, stating that he was paid to play hockey and would not accept a salary if he wasn't playing.[citation needed]
Orr retired having scored 270 goals and 645 assists in 657 games, adding 953 penalty minutes. At the time of his retirement, he was the leading defenceman in league history in goals, assists and points, 10th overall in assists and 19th in points. The only players in league history scoring more points per game than Orr are Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux and Mike Bossy.
Orr inspired the game of hockey with his command of the two-way game, which was unique for a defenceman. Defencemen with goal-scoring ability were not common in the NHL prior to his arrival. Orr was unique in that he could score goals as well, and he influenced countless defencemen who followed him. His speed, most notably a rapid acceleration, and his open ice artistry electrified fans as he set almost every conceivable record for a defenceman. In contrast to the style of hanging back defensive play common in the later 1950s and 1960s, Orr was known for his fluid skating and end-to-end rushing. Orr's rushing enabled him to be where the puck was, allowing him not only to score effectively but also defend when necessary. According to longtime Bruins' coach and general manager Harry Sinden, "Bobby became a star in the NHL about the time they played the National Anthem for his first game with us."[5]
Orr also benefited from playing most of his career in Boston Garden, which was nine feet shorter and two feet narrower than the standard NHL rink. This suited his rushing style very well, as he was able to get from one end of the ice to the other faster than in a standard rink.[6]
His style of play was also hard on his knees and shortened his career. "It was the way I played," Orr has said. "I liked to carry the puck and if you do that, you're going to get hit. I wish I'd played longer, but I don't regret it." Orr stated in 2008. "I had a style — when you play, you play all-out. I tried to do things. I didn't want to sit back. I wanted to be involved."[7]
By 1978, Orr had been through over a dozen knee surgeries, was having trouble walking and barely skated anymore. He ultimately came to the conclusion that he could no longer play and informed the Blackhawks that he was retiring. The NHL waived the mandatory three-year waiting period for induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame and he was enshrined at age 31—the youngest player ever to be inducted, and one of only ten players to get in without having to wait three years. "Losing Bobby", said Gordie Howe, "was the greatest blow the National Hockey League has ever suffered." One of Orr's lasting legacies is that his popularity helped to cement the expansion of the NHL in America. His number 4 jersey was retired by the Bruins in January 1979. At the ceremony, the crowd at Boston Garden would not stop applauding and as a result, most of the evening's program had to be scrapped at the last second due to the constant cheering.
He has been honoured with his name recorded on Canada's Walk of Fame. A museum exists in his honour in his home town of Parry Sound called the Bobby Orr Hall of Fame. In 1979 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Orr later played a role in the exposure of Eagleson's misconduct over the years. He'd once considered Eagleson a "big brother", but broke with him after suspecting that Eagleson wasn't being truthful with him. In addition to misleading his clients about contract terms, Eagleson used the NHLPA pension fund to enrich himself. Eventually, Eagleson was convicted in American and Canadian courts and sentenced to 18 months in Canadian prison, of which he served six months. Orr was one of 19 former players who threatened to resign from the Hall of Fame if Eagleson wasn't removed. Facing certain expulsion, Eagleson resigned from the Hall soon after his conviction in 1998. Although Orr had been one of the highest-paid players in the NHL, Eagleson's misdeeds left him almost bankrupt.
Subsequent to his playing career, Orr served briefly as an assistant coach for Chicago, and as a consultant to the NHL and the Hartford Whalers, spending the bulk of his retirement years as a Boston-area bank executive. He is currently a player agent in Boston. For a number of years, Orr coached a team of top Canadian Hockey League players against a similar team coached by Don Cherry in the CHL Top Prospects Game.
Cherry, his former coach in Boston, considers Orr to be the greatest hockey player who ever lived.
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| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | +/- | PP | SH | GW | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 1962–63 | Oshawa Generals | Metro Jr.A | 34 | 6 | 15 | 21 | 45 | |||||||||||
| 1963–64 | Oshawa Generals | OHA | 56 | 29 | 43 | 72 | 142 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 21 | ||||||
| 1964–65 | Oshawa Generals | OHA | 56 | 34 | 59 | 93 | 112 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 10 | ||||||
| 1965–66 | Oshawa Generals | OHA | 47 | 38 | 56 | 94 | 92 | 17 | 9 | 19 | 28 | 14 | ||||||
| 1966–67 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 61 | 13 | 28 | 41 | 102 | — | — | — | — | |||||||
| 1967–68 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 46 | 11 | 20 | 31 | 63 | +30 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 1968–69 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 67 | 21 | 43 | 64 | 133 | +65 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 10 | ||
| 1969–70 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 76 | 33 | 87 | 120 | 125 | +54 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 9 | 11 | 20 | 14 | ||
| 1970–71 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 78 | 37 | 102 | 139 | 91 | +124 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 10 | ||
| 1971–72 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 76 | 37 | 80 | 117 | 106 | +86 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 5 | 19 | 24 | 19 | ||
| 1972–73 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 63 | 29 | 72 | 101 | 99 | +56 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | ||
| 1973–74 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 74 | 32 | 90 | 122 | 82 | +84 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 16 | 4 | 14 | 18 | 28 | ||
| 1974–75 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 80 | 46 | 89 | 135 | 101 | +80 | 16 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | ||
| 1975–76 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 10 | 5 | 13 | 18 | 22 | +10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1976–77 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 20 | 4 | 19 | 23 | 25 | +6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1978–79 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 6 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | +2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| OHA totals | 193 | 107 | 173 | 280 | 391 | 29 | 9 | 32 | 41 | 45 | ||||||||
| NHL totals | 657 | 270 | 645 | 915 | 953 | +597 | 73 | 15 | 26 | 74 | 26 | 66 | 92 | 92 | ||||
International statistics
| Year | Team | Event | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM |
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| 1972 | Canada | Summit Series | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1976 | Canada | Canada Cup | 7 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 8 |
ORR Hockey Group is a Boston based player agent majority owned by Orr and repurchased in February 2002. The group represents such surging young talent as Jason Spezza, Eric Staal, Jordan Staal, Marc Staal, Rick DiPietro, Nathan Horton, Jeff Carter, Steve Downie, Anthony Stewart, Tomáš Kaberle, and Colton Orr.
Spezza, when asked on the experience of having Orr as an agent, replied: "I don't think I have a true feeling for how great he is. I have so much respect for him. I watch him on tapes and it's just ridiculous how good he was compared to the guys he was playing against. He's a great guy and you don't even know it's Bobby Orr, the way he talks to you."[8]
| Awards | ||
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| Preceded by Phil Esposito |
Winner of the Art Ross Trophy 1970 |
Succeeded by Phil Esposito |
| Preceded by Phil Esposito |
Winner of the Art Ross Trophy 1975 |
Succeeded by Guy Lafleur |
| Preceded by Brit Selby |
Winner of the Calder Trophy 1967 |
Succeeded by Derek Sanderson |
| Preceded by Serge Savard |
Winner of the Conn Smythe Trophy 1970 |
Succeeded by Ken Dryden |
| Preceded by Ken Dryden |
Winner of the Conn Smythe Trophy 1972 |
Succeeded by Yvan Cournoyer |
| Preceded by Phil Esposito |
Winner of the Hart Trophy 1970, 1971, 1972 |
Succeeded by Bobby Clarke |
| Preceded by Harry Howell |
Winner of the Norris Trophy 1968-1975 |
Succeeded by Denis Potvin |
| Preceded by Russ Jackson |
Lou Marsh Trophy winner 1970 |
Succeeded by Hervé Filion |
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| NAME | Orr, Robert Gordon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Orr, Bobby |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Professional ice hockey player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada |
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