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Baseball History: The Embodiment of the Game

There really isn't much of a D-backs tie-in on this one, but I wanted to write it anyway.

The Arizona Diamondbacks have existed since 1998, which is a very short amount of time. Children born in 1998 will be graduating high school this year. But in baseball terms, it is a very long time. So long, in fact, that Baseball-Reference lists only seven players who played in 1998 as still being active players. Some are more famous, some are less so. One was a Diamondback, but he is active in a very different sense from the other six; Karim Garcia is still officially an "active" player, but hasn't played in the big leagues since 2004.