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Jim Otto<\/a>, who started at center for the Oakland Raiders in every game from 1960 to 1974<\/a>, passed away on May 19<\/a>. He was 86. Otto was a member of the Raiders team that won the AFL Championship in 1967 and played the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl II. He was named a First-Team All-AFL player nine times, and a First-Team NFL All-Pro once. Otto was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1980.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today’s card of the day is one of Otto’s rookie cards, a 1961 Topps<\/a>. (The other is a 1961 Fleer<\/a>.) Fittingly, it is the only horizontally-oriented player card in the 1961 Topps set<\/a>. The card shows Otto wearing number 50, his number in 1960. From 1961 on, he wore his familiar 00–which could be read aught-oh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(I first noticed today that Topps used “offensive center” as Otto’s position on this card. I can’t think of any other card that lists a player as an offensive center, rather than just a center. Can you?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not surprisingly, Otto also appeared on many more cards and stamps during his career. You can see all of Jim Otto’s cards<\/a> in the Gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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