Major League Baseball seems to be losing superstars from the second half of the 20th Century at a sorrowful rate lately, as their ages climb and their lifetimes wind down.

Remembering how the Oakland A's 'Man of Steal' chalked up so many awards it seemed he simply lent them out to others for a while.

In Rickey Henderson, Pete Rose, Willie Mays and Fernando Valenzuela the sport of baseball lost four of its most electric ...