“Isn’t Willie Mays Wonderful?”

The sky seems a little less bright today. The music sounds just a bit bluer. The stars feel farther away.

Willie Mays is gone.

He stopped playing baseball more than 50 years ago, and yet you can see him, even if you never actually saw him. He’s chasing a fly ball, and he will never get there in time. Sayers was effortless. Orr was effortless. Griffey was…