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Remember A’s Rickey Henderson not just for his feats, but how he lived and loved baseball
Rickey Henderson loved baseball ... adjusting his batting gloves and straightening his sleeves, then got in a crouched stance that gave him a pint-sized strike zone, infuriated pitchers.
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Rickey Henderson finished his career in indy ball. There, a legend showed a different side
The night before the final day of Rickey Henderson’s professional baseball career, he concocted a makeshift drink that his team called “Championship Juice.” The moment didn’t come with the ...
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Called home: Giants’ Grant McCray deeply saddened by the death of Rickey Henderson
How impressive is his 82.6 percent success rate over that span? Consider that Rickey Henderson, who swiped a major league-record 1,406 bases, retired with a success rate of 80.6 percent.