Please understand that Rickey Henderson stole 1,406 bases during his big league career and that no active player is within 1,000 of that total. - ThreadSky

codifybaseball.bsky.social • 72 days ago

Please understand that Rickey Henderson stole 1,406 bases during his big league career and that no active player is within 1,000 of that total.

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artielarkin9.bsky.social•72 days ago

Career leader in runs scored as well, best leadoff hitter in MLB hx.

mlip16.bsky.social•71 days ago

Freddie Freemon is the closest active player to Ricky’s run scored record. He’s need 1000 more to catch up

thecleanupstep.com•72 days ago

Definitely in the conversation of best ever (non-Bonds division)

clearancesection.bsky.social•71 days ago

They pay guys to get on base, not to get thrown out at second anymore.

bartleby6316.bsky.social•71 days ago

They pay guys to score runs and nobody scored more runs than Rickey.

primary-sources.bsky.social•72 days ago

How many more would he have stolen with today’s rules?

511ian.bsky.social•72 days ago

All of them. Literally ever single base.

matthewkane.bsky.social•72 days ago

That much larceny and never indicted. He should have run for president.

canofcorn.bsky.social•72 days ago

@canofcorn.bsky.social gonna miss Rickey

brattylittlewitch.bsky.social•71 days ago

Rickey wasn’t lying when he said he was the greatest of all time, he backed it up

jdkurtz.bsky.social•72 days ago

An AVERAGE of 56 steals per season, a number that would have led the majority of recent seasons.

A player has stolen 100 bases 8 times in MLB history. 3 of those times it was Rickey, including the record - 130.

jbryanlarson.bsky.social•72 days ago

He led the league in steals at age 39.

jdkurtz.bsky.social•72 days ago

A completely disruptive force.

gtgtok.bsky.social•72 days ago

That era produced some of the great base stealers of all time. Tim Raines, Vince Coleman to name a couple.

Definitely a lost art.

dodgersball.bsky.social•72 days ago

Who was the coolest running form base stealer? I think it was Lou Brock. If he had stuck to his record, I think he would have stolen more bases.

loudangry.bsky.social•72 days ago

Respect to the king. Rest in peace

rockwils1.bsky.social•72 days ago

And he was never prosecuted.

johnmccullough.bsky.social•72 days ago

More importantly than that is that Rickey scored 2,295 runs.

More than any other player.

How do you win games? Score runs. Rickey is the greatest baseball player of all time.

raystay75.bsky.social•72 days ago

Two records that will never be broken and I'd put money on it. Rickey's SB record and Cal's consecutive games streak.

jdkurtz.bsky.social•72 days ago

DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak. No one has had mote than 40 games since Rose in 1978.

themattshelton.bsky.social•71 days ago

I will add that I highly doubt any pitcher gets 512 wins (or even within 200 of that in this era), so Cy Young’s record seems safe. And, somehow this one is easier, but doesn’t seem likely, going to be tough to break Johnny Vander Meer’s record by throwing three straight no-hitters.

raystay75.bsky.social•71 days ago

Oh yeah. This is a good one. Nice.

soundnfury.bsky.social•72 days ago

Or someone could steal 60 bases a year for the next 23 years and he would still be in the lead.

jdcshaverford.bsky.social•72 days ago

Lou Brock is in second place, and would need to have stolen 50% more bases to catch Rickey Henderson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_career_stolen_bases_leaders?wprov=sfla1

lmc-texas.bsky.social•72 days ago

And the bases were smaller! Legend

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