1914 Cracker Jack #25 Michael Simon PSA GOOD+ 2.5

1914 Cracker Jack #25 Michael Simon PSA 2.5 - A Century-Old Piece of Cracker Jack History

The 1914 Cracker Jack #25 Michael Simon comes from one of the most instantly recognizable and important pre-war baseball sets ever produced. Its brilliant red background, compact portrait, and unmistakable Cracker Jack branding created a design unlike virtually anything else from the era. Simon, a catcher who spent time with the Pittsburgh Pirates, is presented here on an original 1914 issue that has now survived for more than 110 years.

Graded PSA GOOD+ 2.5, this example carries exactly the kind of honest age and character collectors expect from the first Cracker Jack release. The 1914 cards were distributed directly inside packages of Cracker Jack, exposing them to caramel staining, handling, and countless other condition hazards from the moment they were issued. That history makes every surviving example a small artifact of how baseball cards were actually collected and enjoyed during the Deadball Era.

Simon’s Major League career was relatively brief, but that is part of what makes building the full Cracker Jack checklist so compelling—the set preserves not only its Cobb, Jackson, Mathewson, and Johnson legends, but the players who filled out Major League rosters alongside them.