New York/San Francisco Giants great Willie Mays picked up another laurel on Monday: Jon Posnanski of The Athletic named him the greatest MLB player in history (subscription required).
The notoriously longwinded baseball columnist has been counting down his 100 greatest baseball players series since December. By his own admission, the project surpassed 280,000 words.
Mays has earned his position atop the list. (Longtime JoePos readers may not be surprised by this; after all, he did create the Willie Mays Hall of Fame a few years ago. The only inductee was .