Nightengale's Notebook: Four retiring MLB legends you need to know; 2021 award picks

Each of them have earned World Series rings, but only one ever played Major League Baseball, and that was 50 years ago.

Only one can be found in the daily box score. Only one can be found folding laundry and handing out uniforms. And only one writes press notes, deals every day with the media and in 2021, orchestrates daily Zoom rooms.

Together, they make up baseball’s Mount Rushmore, the kings of their crafts.

And on Sunday each are walking away from the game they love, and, oh, how everyone in this game sure loved them right back.

There is umpire Gerry Davis, who will umpire behind the plate Sunday for the Cardinals-Cubs game in his hometown of St. Louis one last time, and retire after umpiring his 5,000th game.

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