Getty Images/Ringer illustration The legendary center fielder, who died Tuesday at age 93, was more than just one of baseball's all-time greats. He was the best of them. The legacy he leaves behind—in every aspect of the game—has no equal. From the moment he retired—if we're being honest, from a few years before that—and for the rest of his life, Willie Mays had a compelling case as the world's Greatest Living Ballplayer. Mays died Tuesday, after a life lived in full, 93 circuits around the sun. He was the last surviving member of the iconic superstar class that defined baseball's self-proclaimed Golden Age. Mickey Mantle, Stan Musial, Ted Williams, Frank Robinson, Henry Aaron—inner-circle Hall of Famers whose careers overlapped in the late 1950s—all passed away before him. Mays's death closes the chapter on an entire era of baseball history, and rips open a void in the sport that will take time to heal. It's not simply that Mays was the last of those superstars, though. It's that he was the best of them. He was considered an all-time great throughout his career, and yet he was underrated. He played with a singular flair that influenced the game for generations to...