It’s a quirk of baseball that we ponder such a thing. Does anybody try to identify the world’s greatest actuary? Or Florida’s finest living taxidermist? But baseball fans, especially tradition-savvy St. Louis Cardinals fans, never lose affection for past superstars. Opening Day festivities always include Clydesdales and a troop of Hall of Famers — Gibson, Lou Brock, Ozzie Smith, etc. — in red blazers. In St. Louis, former greats are rarely out of sight and never out of mind.
Selecting the greatest living post-Gibson Cardinal should be an easy task. Look up the still-living players with the highest career WARs during their St.