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What A Difference A Century Makes

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: June 17, 2008

In 1908 ...

•First baseman Tim Jordan of the Brooklyn Superbas won the National League home-run title with 12.

•Vaudevillian Jack Norworth wrote the lyrics to "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" on a train ride into Manhattan, combined the words with a musical score by composer Albert Von Tilzer and published one of the biggest hit songs of the year.

•Pirates SS Honus Wagner was the highest-paid player in the game with a salary of $10,000.

•The Yankees, still known as the New York Highlanders, had never won a World Series.

•The Cubs won their second consecutive World Series.

In 2008 ...

•24 NL players had 12 or more home runs through Sunday.

•Former Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda performed "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" at Wrigley Field during the seventh-inning stretch - for the sixth time.

•Yankees 3B Alex Rodriguez is the highest-paid player in the game with a salary of $27 million.

•The Yankees have won 26 World Series.

•The Cubs still have won only two World Series.

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