Henderson didn’t believe in warming up before games. Famously, he never bothered to learn the names of team-mates or ...
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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.
Henderson left a mark on baseball and the city of Oakland that won't soon be forgotten. Commissioner Manfred issued the following statement regarding the passing of Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson ...
Rickey Henderson, the greatest leadoff hitter in baseball history, an irrepressible character whose on-field style and ...
Rickey Henderson was among the rare exceptions. He rose from the youth baseball diamonds of Oakland to become the undisputed greatest leadoff batter in the history of baseball. The news that ...
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. On Dec. 20, Rickey Henderson ...
In Rickey Henderson, Pete Rose, Willie Mays and Fernando Valenzuela the sport of baseball lost four of its most electric ...
279 batting average and .401 on-base percentage. “For multiple generations of baseball fans, Rickey Henderson was the gold standard of base stealing and leadoff hitting,” commissioner Rob ...
Widely regarded as the greatest leadoff hitter in baseball history, he was not just one of the game’s most exciting players but also one of its most eccentric. By Michael S. Rosenwald Rickey ...
The baseball world is mourning Rickey Henderson on Saturday. Social media was flooded with heartfelt messages for the sports icon who died at the age of 65. Henderson’s former Yankee teammate ...
Rickey Henderson, the greatest base stealer in baseball history, has died. He was 65. Henderson, who stole 1,406 bases during a Hall of Fame career that included stops with both the Yankees and ...