Some of it might be attributed to the naturally elevated status given the recently deceased, but all week Willie Mays has been described as indisputably the greatest living baseball player. Let’s accept that to be true.
Who’s next? No one indisputable.
So let’s dispute. (And let’s not dispute the use of dispute as an imperative verb. It’s indisputable.)
Choosing the greatest living player now demands parameters. Barry Bonds — who happens to be Mays’ godson — amassed the most exceptional batting statistics in the history of baseball and Roger Clemens did close to the same as a pitcher in the modern era.