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.
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 ...
While there was a Henderson in the lineup that day, it wasn't Rickey, but instead centerfielder Dave Henderson batting second for the Athletics. Rickey would be back in Oakland after being re ...
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.