In this bonus episode, we're taking a moment to remember the life of Rickey Henderson. The legendary baseball player died on December 20. He was 65. In a professional career that spanned almost 25 ...
The cover had already been designed, with Rickey Henderson striking that familiar, self-assured pose. The problem was, the subject of the cover story didn’t realize he would be the face of the first ...
Before he was a somebody, Rickey Henderson was already a constituency of one. Professional athletes are a different species, world-class talents whose sense of self and possibility do not often fit ...
Dec. 24—When Kevin Towers was the San Diego Padres' general manager, he received a voicemail delivered in a high-pitched, high-energy voice then familiar to most baseball people: "KT! It's Rickey!
Late in Rickey Henderson's career, hisSeattle Mariners teammate Mike Cameron would reach for the bus microphone as the team lumbered from airports to hotels, and he read aloud some of the recent ...
Rickey Henderson — Hall of Fame left fielder and beloved baseball icon — passed away on Saturday after a long battle with pneumonia. He was 65. And while MLB’s all-time stolen bases leader played the ...
My favorite Rickey Henderson story is one told by former major leaguer and MLB Network personality Harold Reynolds. It never gets old. The year is 1987. Henderson, dealing with hamstring issues, ...