Reviewing an amazing find of more than 170 1914 and 1915 Cracker Jacks is a memorable experience. Coming across the 1914 Christy Mathewson is an entirely different experience altogether. It's a show-stopping card one of the hobby's most desirable and one of Mathewson's most highly sought-after cards. One of just two examples of subjects included in both the 1914 and 1915 Cracker Jack sets where the player's pose was changed (the other being Del Pratt also featured in this auction) the 1914 Cracker Jack Mathewson is the undisputed king of the Cracker Jack run. The Cracker Jack Mathewson is so elusive that most Cracker Jack collectors are content to build the 1915 set rather than the 1914 or to use combined elements of both simply because of the unavailability of the Matty. Since 1914 Cracker Jacks are more rare than their 1915 counterparts in general and due to the aforementioned pose variation the 1914 Mathewson has reached nearly mythical proportions in terms of desirability. This is the most coveted of all the Cracker Jack cards and easily one of Mathewson's most desirable issues as well. Bosting an unbelievably clean surface and impossibly wide borders the color is bold and crisp the result of the card having been stored away unnoticed in a box for the better part of a century. The grade of GOOD+ 2.5 is attributed to corner rounding and a few corner crease the most pronounced of which can be found at the upper-left. Despite this this is a superb specimen one of the finest we have seen a fresh example of one of the hobby's most sought-after cards.