The best of the game

Recommended reading: Gene Wojciechowski's ESPN piece headlined "Everything Maddux Wasn't" — which actually tells you everything Greg Maddux was — smart, classy, dignified, talented, a credit to the game of baseball.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=wojciechowski_gene&id=3749958&sportCat=mlb

And at his farewell news conference, Maddux was, well, himself.

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20081208&content_id=3706977&vkey=perspectives&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb