@@matsalvatore9074He was thanking Mr. Brock for his guidance. The old timers knew their records could be broken, Mr. Brock saw that in Rickey. Class move from the old days. Wakefield helped RA Dickey with the knuckleball.
When you talk about the Ruths, Williams, Mays...he's not there. However, he reinvented not only the lead off position but the whole strategy of baseball. Ted Williams did that but nobody listened.
Rickey is responsible for possibly my favorite stat of all-time across any sport: He walked 796 times in his career when LEADING OFF AN INNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MY fave is this. Couple of baseball writers for the papers sitting on the bus talking about the Joe Carter walk off in 1993 and where they were. They're talking about high school and college. The newspaper folds at the back of the bus and Henderson says "I was on second base"
I don't think he did, I saw him in the early 80's. Maybe when got traded back to Tony Larussa's ROIDZONE. That maybe. I still don't think he did like MGWIRE and Canseco. Have I mentioned that Tony LaRussa is vile scum?
Boarding the team plane on his first road trip after signing with the Padres, his manager told him, "Sit anywhere Rickey- you have tenure." Ricky replied: "Ten year? Shit, Rickey been playing 15-16 year!"
He may have been a cocky little shit at times during his MLB career, but he was one of the best lead off hitters of all time. One of the fastest guys in the game.
Man, the golden age of baseball. Henderson was such a pleasure to watch, the dude was hilarious and talented for days. Miss watching the good old boys.
I’ve personally met Rickey on more then one occasion, and he was always very nice, polite and never said no to an autograph or picture. The last time I ran into him was actually just a few years ago, maybe 5. He was a base coach for the A’s double A team in my home town in west Texas. The whole time he was talking to my family and I, he kept talking in the 3rd person. “Hey you want Ricky’s autograph? Come over here and get a picture with Ricky.” Normally people like that are total assholes, but because he was so nice and easy going, we just knew that was Ricky being Ricky. He really was a character, I can’t imagine all the stories his teammates could probably tell. ... And by the way, that dude has legs like a horse. It looked like all he did in the gym were squats.
It's better to really quantify it, Rickey is the first person to reach 1,000 steals, he had 1,406, the next person had 938, that's 460 steals. Jimmy Collins is 46th all time in with 460 steals, that's top 50 out of everyone to ever steal a base from the MLB. If you looked at it on a graph you'd label him an outlier, the best of them weren't even in his ball-park.
I would be scared to walk down the street to the bank with a million dollar check in Oakland, but Rickey is Rickey, and is from Oakland, so nobody was going to mess with Rickey.
Got pulled over in the Bay area in his red Porsche with mirror tints and barely cracked his window and slid his baseball card out the when the officer knocked on the car window.
incredible athlete, i have no doubt barring injuries rickey would have been a great running back in the nfl. you can say all you want about cal ripken playing all those games in a row, but i'd rather have someone who played so hard he got hurt every now and then, but always bounced back and could single handedly change the outcome of a game with his athleticism and fearlessness.
I disagree, Rickey is about 5' 10" at most. He would have had a short career before the linebackers broke him. He was born to play baseball for 24 years.
