Rickey Henderson crushed souls with unprecedented efficiency | Dorktown 

Kirk Bounds it was back in NY with the mets

This story is apocryphal. There's a video of John Olerud explaining how the story came to be.

So why did Olerud wear a helmet on the field?

I love that story! Cracks me up to this day! I was fortunate enough to see Ricky play and steal second in '94-'95 when he was back with the A's. We were sitting a few rows up from first base and I KNEW he would run. That man made stealing bases look easy and I modeled my bases game after him growing up.

@@explosivereactionstv7414 I think he had an aneurysm earlier in life and wore it to protect the brain from further complications. something like that

I don’t see any issue with that

*scoffs* only fourth?!?!

Thank you indeed, RU-vid algorithm -- four times or 40!

Relatable

Same!!!

AWESOME!

GAME4WAR wdym you wrote a comment

I was gonna give you a like but....

@@Peezy2x r/woooooosh

negius hegratte r/wooooosh

HAHAHAHAHA..... fUNNY!!

I mentioned that to a friend a few months ago and he almost died laughing.

Pete Rose was the most awesome player I ever saw!

@@mr.wizard2974 sorry for your bad vision

This isn't exactly true. He had more than the team had in the time he'd been playing, but not all the years before that.

Than*

😂🤣😂😆

Allow me to pile on here, xVipeY. In 1982, Rickey Henderson was CAUGHT stealing (42 times) more than the Twins had stolen bases (38).

Don't worry, Minnesota sports teams are embarrassing themselves as it is.

Look at the bright side, at least you're not a Mariners fan

When?

@@windinthewillow1871 1989. It's a reference to the new Dorktown documentary, Captain Ahab: the story of Dave Stieb.

Ah yes, I remember that very short, not-asked-for documentary within a documentary. 😄

Pppppppp

And then the Jays signed him in '93

NJGuy1973 probably 3, but to me that just proves he probably was a steroid user, and if there's already one and almost certainly more in the hall of fame why not put the rest in?

David Mayberry how you split a guy in two and get 3 people

Albert Liu not quite but okay

I am not going to bore you with statistics, but I have a Master's centered around stats... Here are the facts, in 1998 at 34 an aging McGwire managed to put up 70 home runs. There is little doubt from that statistic McGwire was cheating. Given that his AB/HR decreased to 7.2 or 7.3 in comparison to more prime years, it would suggest a clear edge despite his aging. Had this been a performance 5 years later, statistics would suggest with a significant certainty McGwire was an outlier at an even greater magnitude amongst all other MLB players at the time. In either case, McGwire is an outlier accompanied with Bonds. Comparably in 1998, the 39 year old Rickey Henderson managed to out steal a much thinner Tony Womack who was 28 years old. The only difference here is that Rickey has done better than 66 SB's, but for his age he is now an outlier in history to the same degree McGwire was an outlier. The question you will have to answer is, "when will a 39 year old lead MLB in stolen bases, if the answer is never... and if you have seen the trends since 2003, you would know that it's impossible, the evidence is clear Rickey Henderson was cheating in the same way McGwire was cheating. I know you are a reasonable guy, don't you find that a bit suspicious?.

@@stateengineer8760 theyre all on steroids, the testing in the mlb is garbage so its fair game. at the end of the day if you have no definitive proof he took steroids (numbers are irrelevant) then hes innocent until proven guilty.

But Henderson did that.

yakovgolyadkin yes

Reminds me of Stottlemyre lol

Austin Full he is my spirit animal but has the record for being thrown out the most too.

999

If you set him as 100, nobody else can even be a 50.

Rickey was the best. I'm glad I lived through his career. And that of my favorite player of all-time, Ken Griffey, Jr. I only missed Jr's first season, in 1989. Started following him, Rickey, and others in 1990. And fjnly saw him play in person during his final season. He went 3 for 4 with a 1B and two 2B, 3 RBI and 2 runs scored. Only thing better would have been a HR. Edit: maybe NOT 1990. It may have been 1989. My first Griffey baseball card was a 1990 Upper Deck and that started it all. Also got Kevin Maas in that same pack and he was worth a little more than Jr at the time. Jr was still like $1.00 or something, so I started following him and collecting his cards. I've probably got 200. I quit collecting right when the card companies started over-producing cards and diluting the market, driving down prices.

wakawaka1976 yeah but that’s just through sheer quantity, he’s actually in the top ten all time for stolen base percentage

The longer it takes me to get a joke, the funnier it is.... and.... i can't stop laughing now! Lmao. THAT'S funny!

I don't get it

@@arthurkorff "tenure"= Ten year

@@jamesrustles8670 thanks

Rickie didn't have a big vocabulary

this game: www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/OAK/OAK199005090.shtml

That's such a good story! Never heard of that one before

And that losing pitcher for the NYY (Eric Plunk) was acquired from OAK... as part of the Rickey Henderson trade

Can anyone tell me how many throwing errors Steve Sax had in that game?

Cool story. Thanks for sharing it. I thought you were bullshitting at first.

The hell? Did fantasy bets exist that early? I had no idea it started before being popular

@@anaveragejoehanginground Lol. Believe it or not young blood. Fantasy sport teams existed before the internet. You got together on draft night, everyone in the same room. You wrote stuff down with a pencil on paper. And called each other on the phone to make trades. Yahoo chocolate milk was part of the tradition. Like, not just with us. But universally. It was so different. Yet Israel and Palestine still killed one another. So. Kind of the same.

I wouldn't be surprised if Rickey was caught stealing more times than the Twins stole bases either. Rickey stole his first 65 bases in only 70 tries. Then he stole his other 65 while being thrown out 37 times. Think about this: Damaso Garcia finished second in the AL with 54 steals that year. After that I think you had Julio Cruz and Paul Molitor. Rickey was caught stealing more times than Paul Molitor had stolen bases. So the top five were, Rickey 130, Damaso Garcia 54, Julio Cruz 46, Rickey "caught stealing" 42, Paul Molitor 41, and Willie Wilson 37.

I just dug this up from baseballreference.com. The Minnesota Twins were 60-102 in their first year in the Metrodome and had 38 stolen bases ALL SEASON LONG. So, YES, Rickey was caught stealing more than the Twinkies had stolen bases!!!

the even better one is that Rickey Henderson joined the Red Sox in 2002. Henderson had more career steals than the entire Red Sox franchise had in their history.

@@SuccimusPrime My mind still cannot process this. Like what???

@Catharsis Exactly. Nobody cares about little ball anymore.

That's pretty good right there!

Plus Jeter played for the Yankees during his entire prime. Henderson's first 6 seasons were on the A's where his best 3 single seasons were (100, 130, 108) and he totaled 493 before the trade to NY. Lol. Insane.

TheAnanaki It took Jeter 15 years to break the record. He could be considered "in his prime" for a while, but not 15 years. Jeters entire prime playing career wasn't enough to get as many stolen bases as Henderson had with the team when he was already in decline.

That's not at all what I was saying. I was adding to Henderson's legend by showing that he wasn't even in his prime on the Yankees. Jeter was. Ricky's 4 best seasons top Jeter's whole 20 year career. Lol. Hell it didn't even take Ricky 15 seasons to break Brock's MLB record. He did that at the beginning of his 13th season.

TheAnanaki I understood your point. Maybe I was unclear because I was trying to agree with you.

Statutory Grape Scott Podsednik was every bit his equal. For a year and a half.

Max Johnson no friggin way. Not even close. lol

Edmund Carter for a year and a half!

Nope, Scott Podsednik was never Rickey's equal ever no matter what his numbers were in that "year and a half"

Edmund Carter did rickey henderson hit a walk-off home run in the world series?

What about Joe DiMaggio's record for consecutive games with a hit

Johnny Vander Meer's back to back no hitters?

How about Nolan Ryan 2,795 walks? With the free swinging today, will anyone ever walk even 2000 batters?

Cal Ripken's iron man record is the most unbreakable record of baseball.

@@starwalk3r I don't know. Which is less likely, that a player will show up for work every day for 16 1/4 full seasons to play 2633 games in a row, or that a player in today's game will get 200 hits for 21 straight seasons and come back for a 22nd to get 57 more? Although if you could name one active player who you think stands an outside chance at 1407 stolen bases, I'd love to know who.

Cheat Code, indeed

theres no speed in rbi baseball. everyone is equal speed your thinking of another game

@@blackoutgstar9949 The old NES games? Yeah, there were speed differences. I remember guys like Cecil Fielder would always be thrown out on an infield ground ball, whereas guys like Ricky and Tim Raines would almost always be safe. You might be thinking of the fielders as they all moved at the same time and speed, but the base runners definitely had different running speeds.

@@SvendleBerries i actually never noticed that and i played that alot. ill look out for it next time. i always used Am and subbed out first hitter for the guy with max home runs

@@blackoutgstar9949 Man Rickey was unstoppable once he got in base in RBI Baseball. I played with the A's. Ricky Henderson was the most dangerous player in that game because he didn't need to hit a home run or to be batted in to score. All he needed was to just get a base hit

Because Jeter was more known for being a contact hitter

whooosh...

@@GLee-oe3op Do you think Rickey Henderson was hitting home runs to get his stolen bases? Or do you think he was an unbelievably quick "contact hitter"?

Seems right Rickey was 4x faster

@@jeremyhanna3852 And Jeter has 5x the number of WS rings.

What a speech, that'll be classic forever

The crazy part is that he broke that record 12 years before his final MLB game

I played RBI '93 religiously and always played as the 1990 A's so I could dominate with Rickey.

They did say, they can talk about Ricky all day, lol

Kamel : So true. This is just one of my favorite Rickey records. Couldn't let it not get mentioned here. :)

Mookie Betts is hot on his tail

Carl Keller yep that record is just as impressive and will never be broken.

I was lucky enough to see him hit numbers 60 and 61 at a doubleheader, back in '93. Boy was he fun to watch.

Ｙｕｎｇ Ｖｕｌｐｉｘ I didn’t get this because I’m rarted, can you explain it to me lol

Jack in Black it's called the empire State building you dense fuck

MrYouarethecancer chill you spaz

That's classic, like Mike Tyson's remark after he realized he was past his prime. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6tLrIkPK8kg.html

Rickey loved TMNT turtlepedia.wikia.com/wiki/Entire_State_Building

Salutations from Canada. Yeah, the Blue Jays got completely slaughtered by Rickey. Those ALCS nightmares were the biggest reason why the Jays signed him in 1993. They literally were too afraid of his ability to take control of a game to let him go to another team.

We apologize if this annoys you and/or ruins your flow. This is what Rickey does.

Their Dave Stieb doc covers this! You saw the future

Loved growing up watching him play. He was my idol

Absolutely. Back then it was all about Ricky Henderson, Dennis Eckersley, and of course the bash brothers Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire

Rickey is the reason why I chose #35 for my baseball uniform.

Rickey's early years in Oakland were mostly on losing teams. 4 of those first 6 seasons, the A's were sub 500 teams. With Shooty Babbitt manning second, you can understand why. It wasn't until his second stint with the A's, starting in 89, did he contribute to Oakland success. I spent a lot of time in the coliseum during the 80's and 90's. Saw well over a hundred games. My favorite things were watching Stewart kick Roger Clemens ass on a regular basis. Canseco and McGwire launch homers into the back rows on the bleachers. (A couple of times over the bleachers and onto the concourse.) And of course Rickey doing what Rickey did so well. Scare the shit out of pitchers and managers.

I still remember me and my friends sitting around the radio listening to Ricky break the single season record and absolutely loosing our minds when he did it. Great times.

My favorite player of all time.

Ichiro is easily in the conversation for greatest ever baseball player in my book.

Reading this after the mariners episode, god dammit, He's a beast. Even more astonishing, he's still playing

@@rockaway0beach The Dorktown Mariners recap is pretty good.

@@rockaway0beach ? ichiro retired march 2019, at least according to wiki... i guess in the micro sense that's kind of good though, if he'd planned to retire in 2020 covid-19 would have screwed up all the ceremony for him.

😂

I've broke the home run record too

Kyrie Irving thinks that people who don't refer to themselves in the 3rd person are weird.

Kyrie Irving also think the Earth flat.

This was probably what brought around the episode of 'The Jimmy' on Seinfeld.

That was Bo Jackson. It may have been RH too, but BJ's book was a favorite of mine as a kid and I remember that about him. It took him a while to get over doing that third person thing. Remember the commercial of him saying in the third person, "Bo knows"?

Darth Smirnoff he did😂😂😂 RH was what literally started me watching baseball. On 1st he just stared the picture down as he started to walk towards second base. Then he stole second base, it was amazing

AMAZING!!!

I could make an argument for Ichiro for best leadoff man of all time, but there's no need to argue the point. Both of them did their jobs with something that will never be paralleled in modern baseball.

Got this in my recommended and I don't watch sports... Still watched the whole video.

The most amazing stat I heard was Rickey was only thrown out five times in his first 70 attempts in 1982. Butch Wynegar gunned him down twice in that stretch.

Sounds like a Hall of Famer to me...

Who else hate defensive indifference! A stolen base is a stolen base!

@@edfallon5356 With Rickey, stolen bases were like potato chips; You can't just stop at one. Everyone knew that, and with Philadelphia leading in the bottom of the 9th the pitcher considered Rickey the most pressing threat to score.

I think they meant "players who are more interesting in how they play baseball" not "colourful characters who happen to play baseball for a living"

jimbo 2346 Bo Jackson

Al Hrabosky "The Mad Hungarian"

bois has a video on lonnie smith in pretty good. go check it out.

As I mentioned above, I would say Ty Cobb. actually, the reason I made my comment is because I really want to see a video like this on cobb.

You're telling me a one year old is blowing out candles?

@@WhiteWolf-lm7gj Well, Candle

@@DFCwastaken true

Colin Robertson there are a lot of really good bo jackson vids on yt, but i would enjoy hearing them talk about his crazy career in sports.

Colin Robertson That’s an interesting player.

Colin Robertson yes ...please do

Colin Robertson but Jon don’t know Bo...

Bo = GOAT

jmcrofts - Kind of. I only watch American football, so I have no idea who these baseball players are or were and so forth.

an argentinean here. If you asked me to name 15 retired baseball players I wouldn't be able to answer, don't even know the positions of football, never watched a hockey game in my life

Smh

jmcrofts i dont watch baseball(just football) but im into people being great at things, and statistics so I love this show.

jmcrofts i used to watch a lot of sports, but a few years ago i stopped watching everything besides american football.

I bat left and throw right, I also eat and write with left, but I learned to throw righty.

Jeeves Anthrozaur tall man throw

basketball is my favorite sport. i like the way they dribble up and down the court.

Jeeves Anthrozaur g

king of phone philadelphia 76ers

*broball

So is Pete Rose!

So why was it known as the "Pete rose" slide when I balled in the 90's

Angelos Rizoyannis. Eeuw Jon. Ck the name out!

Rare80 there's not quite enough charts to be a party. It's more like a chart gathering or a chart social

Chart chat?