CLEARWATER, Fla. - It isn't often in baseball that you can watch the generations converge before your eyes. But when you see it, you know it's special.
So we now present a tale of two shortstops. One is J.P. Crawford. For the team that employs him, the Philadelphia Phillies, he represents the ultimate symbol of what they dream will be a beautiful future, lying just over the horizon.
The other is Larry Bowa. For the Phillies, he is a symbol of one of the most glorious periods from a past that hasn't often been overflowing with glory.