Exceedingly scarce pin from the 1896-97 Whitehead & Hoag set, commonly known as "Cameo Pepsin" due to the advertisement sometimes present on the reverse of the pins (though the pins are often found with or without Cameo Pepsin advertising). The first large set of pins to feature baseball players, more than 140 subjects are known and more are added to the checklist as they are discovered. Typically subject to image fading and other condition flaws due to age, the pins are quite condition sensitive today. 

Baltimore pitcher Bill Hoffer is pictured on this tough finback, one of few non-portrait images in the issue, as Hoffer is posing as if throwing a ball.  The image pictures the hurler from the chest up, capturing his hand and the baseball at the top of the pin.  Graded GOOD 2 by PSA, there is some significant fading to the image, as well as some light foxing and surface wear.  The Cameo Pepsin ad on the reverse is clean, with some light patina on the metal components.