Baseball has an annoying habit of granting All-Star berths to fading legends for sentiment’s sake. It’s a nice gesture but totally unfair to more deserving players. In ’73 the 42-year-old Mays, who would announce his retirement two months later, was a broken-down role player who was hitting .211 with six home runs. Sadly, whenever fans and the media debate whether a Hall of Fame talent should hang it up, they inevitably point to the Say Hey Kid as a cautionary tale.