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Grover Cleveland Alexander


I'm excited to present my Grover Cleveland "Pete" Alexander collection as he is a member of two of my main collections - the Nat'l Baseball Hall of Fame AND the Syracuse Baseball Wall of Fame!


[Follow L-R and T-B] First card is a 2013 Monarch Corona reprint mini depicting Alexander as a member of the 1910 Syracuse Stars baseball club - a rare sight and a card that I'm excited to have! Second card is a reprint from an early card set (cigarette?) I purchased from Fritsch. The third card in the first row is a tape damaged 1952 Callahan mini, which is a cool early art card. It's another favorite of mine and one of several (most all tape damaged) I got at a card show for a reasonable price (less than $1 each IIRC).

The next two cards are 1960 and 1961 Fleer cards, respectively. The 1961 Fleer cards are another favorite set of mine because I like the look and I love the variety of their subjects (former and then-current players, executives, and umpires). I also like that they're relatively readily available at mostly reasonable prices. The 6th card is a 1961 Golden Press HoF card I stumbled on recently. It was mixed in with hundreds of common cards from the early 90's! It has serrations on all four sides, so it must have come from a sheet of some sort.

The bottom left card is a 1970 Fleer card of the 1926 World Series that I got as a kid (love these cards), followed by a 1987 (?) Baseball Immortals (SSPC HoF), and the last one is a 1981 TCMA Galasso. Love this photo - looks like he just emerged from a coal mine.



The top left card is an 82 Donruss HoF Heroes, followed by an 87 Hygrade card, and an 88 Conlon World Wide Sports card. The next three cards are Conlon The Sporting News (TSN) cards. Conlon took some great photographs - love the one on the left. The bottom left card is an Upper Deck Ken Burns special card - a great mini series documentary. The 8th card is ANOTHER favorite of mine as it is one of a set of Syracuse Baseball Wall of Fame cards put out in 2000 by Grandstand (Turning Stone Casino and Time Warner Cable). I found the complete 30 card set (+/-) in the bottom of a wicker basket at a flea market marked for $1! The last card is 2019 Panini. I don't buy many current cards, but it's fun to run into cards of former players, and this one looks pretty great.


The last two cards include an 88 Score "Do You Remember" mini, and a 1980 Laughlin (300/400/500 series). It's an odd-shaped card that requires an odd pocket folder.

There you have it. I hope to grow this collection as an Alexander card is a check-off for two of my main collections.

Be well.
CinciCuse Bill
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  1. AnonymousDecember 27, 2019 at 3:12 PM

    The 2nd card looks like a 1915 Sporting News M101 card. I've scanned a majority of the set on a blog post. Just click on 1915.

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