When Tyrus Raymond Cobb was born in 1886, the Worcester Ruby Legs had just folded, the Detroit Wolverines were on their last legs as a franchise, and baseball pitchers had been allowed to throw overhanded for all of two years. Cobb, that notorious asshole, made his National League debut with the Detroit Tigers in 1905, at which point he played in no fewer than two ballparks that would burn the hell down during the course of his career, all while the New York Yankees still went by the New York Highlanders.
Baseball, you see, has been around for a long damn time.