The sole Grover Cleveland Alexander card I have is this 1985 Woolworth Topps #2. Was 1985 the dawn of the Junk Wax Era? It might've been too early to legitimately call it a junk-wax card but when stores like K-Mart and Woolworth started to produce cards (through Topps) the mechanisms of the Junk Wax Era were at least being installed. While Woolworth was beginning to take steps toward its decades long slow death march in the mid 1980's it managed to put out a card set that isn't half bad. The card has nice coloring and while rather basic is a descent way of getting ahold of a player's card at an affordable price. Some of the strip cards from the 20's are affordable when they're in bad shape I guess, but this isn't a bad starter piece to get started on collecting Grover Cleveland Alexander.
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