Tuesday's MLB: Tony La Russa on Rickey Henderson: 'Couldn’t scare him, couldn’t stop him'
“As smart as any position player I’ve ever been around,” La Russa said. “ (He had) that stance with the small strike zone, but he was ready to strike. He was smart. And he learned to be a great base stealer, learned to be a better hitter.
Rickey Henderson, a HOFer even without the steals. Plus 6 key MLB free agents
This is The Athletic’s MLB newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Windup directly in your inbox. Farewell to Rickey Henderson — one of baseball’s truly unique characters, and a singular talent. Plus: It’s first-base musical chairs time in baseball,
His snatch catch was so cool. Rickey Henderson would take a routine fly ball, usually one of baseball’s most yawn-inducing ...
A columnist reminisces on his youthful fandom and the intense devotion to the unorthodox player who made sports matter.
Former A’s manager Billy Martin was able to take ‘this raw talent and kind of mold it into maximum effectiveness.’ ...
Henderson's teammates on the San Diego Surf Dawgs remembered a player who was giving and down-to-earth during his time with ...
Baseball lost another all-time great this weekend when the greatest leadoff man of them all, Rickey Henderson, passed away at ...
Major League Baseball’s all-time stolen base leader Rickey Henderson died at the age of 65, according to his family, per the ...
The baseball community mourns the death of stolen base king Rickey Henderson. Henderson died on Friday at the age of 65.
MLB legend and all-time steals leader Rickey Henderson has passed away at age 65. Henderson, a Major League Baseball Hall of ...
He is baseball's all-time leader in stolen bases (1,406) and runs scored (2,295). He spent part of the 2000 season with the ...
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