Eighties Alphabetically - Jox

When the running craze hit America in the 1970s, running shoes became the thing.  And they had to have stripes on them like Adidas shoes.  America's biggest shoe retailer at the time, Thom McAn, launched their own athletic brand to capture some of the market.

They called their line "Jox," but you don't have to be one to wear them.  And yes, they had stripes on them.

Thom McAn took a one year plunge into the card market and issued a disc set in 1985.  It was an MSA produced-set so there were no logos on the pictures.

The back of the disc was the same on each of the 47 in the set.  The two biggest names from the 1984 division winning Cubs were included in this 1985 set.