Santa Fe’s Partner (1907)

Baseball is a game of people. And while managers, owners, lawyers, umpires and statistics sometimes claim center stage, it’s the players who make baseball what it is…The Great American Game. Over the course of the past 150 years, thousands of great, and not-so-great, players have left their mark on the game. And, as anyone who knows history can tell you, there’s very little new under the sun…even when most baseball games are either played indoors or at night. Baseball…Then and Now takes a look at the players of the game, comparing yesterday’s players with the headliners and bottom feeders of today. Ty Cobb and Pete Rose. Honus Wagner and Alex Rodriguez. Dazzy Vance and Curt Schilling. Mario Mendoza and Rey Ordonez. Steve Blass and Rick Ankiel. Pete Reiser and Ken Griffey, Jr. In all 25 chapters, we’ll see how events from baseball’s past resonate today.