One of several examples of this card that we have auctioned in our history the 1914 Cracker Jack Del Pratt is an interesting card. Often considered to be one of the most scarce cards in the 1914 issue the Pratt achieved its notoriety largely due to being one of just two cards where the player's pose was changed from the 1914 set to the 1915 (the other being Christy Mathewson arguably the 1914 issue's most important card. Just 23 examples of the card have been graded between PSA and SGC combined this one being the most recent submission to PSA. Pratt was a decent ballplayer compiling a .292 lifetime batting average across a 13-year career that saw him do time in St. Louis New York Boston and Detroit. He led the league with 103 RBI in 1916 with the Browns and ran off a string of five consecutive .300 seasons to end his career. He continued on in the Texas League after his major league retirement playing ball through 1932 before finally hanging up his cleats. Still Pratt was never a Hall of Fame contender - the popularity of this card is due simply to its scarcity and its status as one of the toughest cards in one of the hobby's most popular issues. In fact until the submission of this example this past summer the Pratt was tied with card #87 of Hick Cady as the lowest-population card in the set in PSA's Population Report; just 13 graded examples exist and only four have been graded higher than this. The card itself is a beauty a clean vivid example with corner rounding being the primary condition flaw. As is the case with all the other Cracker Jacks in this find the card is fresh to the hobby having been stored away for a long time and only recently discovered. The result is a card that was clearly well-loved during its era of issue but which has since been largely untouched. The image fading and surfice wear that is typically found with cards of this vintage is largely nonexistent in this example. One of the finest examples of one of the issue's key rarities.