not only one of the greatest baseball players ever, but one of the greatest sportsmen ever, a larger than life persona who had an entire genre of stories based on his eccentricities and so good you could have cut his career in half and both halves would have made the Hall of Fame
RIP, Rickey
RIP, Rickey
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He was larger than life! And louder.
Rest in peace, Rickey
It has been reported Rickey died of pneumonia.
Please everybody get your pneumonia vaccine.
a couple months later, the A's are balancing their books and they're $1M off, and they can't figure out why, so someone calls up Rickey to ask what he did with the check
and, Rickey being Rickey, that is exactly what he did
he's not thrilled about this, so one of his teammates tells him, Rickey, you've got tenure, make one of the rookies move
to which Rickey responds "Tenure? No, Rickey got 15 year"
Rickey sees the car out there before the game and goes "Whose ugly car is on the field?"
Olerud said it never happened, but it's too good not to be true.
he was a force of nature and I am heartbroken to lose him
superhuman and no one will ever do it like him
“Rickey Henderson is a run, man.”
and lo, if you look at the all time runs scored leaderboard, there in first place is Rickey
more than anything else, Rickey Henderson was a run