[Pelican]

Yes, and one stunning thing for me is that in the early "dead ball" years, they would use one baseball for the whole game. They weren't made as well as now, and they would get soft and lumpy, dirty and ripped. Obviously easy to get lots of movement, even without the then-legal spitball. It literally was a "dead" ball by the end of the game.

And yes, the farther back you go, the more pronounced the differences are. I don't know how anyone can play random debut, for that reason. It really becomes an apples and oranges comparison. It's barely the same game.