For years, Peter Mancuso chaired that committee, so he's intimately familiar with baseball of the 1800s, including all the obvious and subtle differences in the game then versus now.

If you were in a time machine, [laughs] you were able to do that, the first thing you would notice would be that you'd be looking at a infield diamond that looked pretty much the same as it looks today, although the spot where the pitcher stood to the spot of home plate is 45 feet rather than, uh, 60 feet, six inches.

Yeah.

Uh, another thing in Creighton's time is that you'd be looking at the players on the field, none of them, including the catcher, would be wearing a glove, [laughs] never mind a face mask.

[laughs] That doesn't come along for another almost 20 years, uh, after Creighton.

A third thing as play would begin is the, uh, idea that you did not have to catch a fly ball on a fly.

[laughs] That doesn't come along until about the, uh, about around the time of the end of the Civil War.