OAKLAND — Rickey Henderson, the Oakland kid who became the greatest leadoff hitter in baseball history and his hometown A’s biggest star, has died. Henderson would have turned 66 on Christmas Day.
Beane, the executive vice president of baseball operations for the Oakland Athletics, challenged the prevailing wisdom of how to evaluate baseball players and assembled teams based on analyzing ...
Born on Christmas Day in 1958 in Chicago in the back of his parents' Chevy, Henderson grew up in Oakland and developed into a star athlete. He played baseball, basketball and football at Oakland Tech ...
Oakland? Whatever that threshold was, Henderson easily surpassed it, just like he did with baseball’s stolen-base record. (Henderson, who broke the record at age 32, wound up with 50 percent ...
OAKLAND, Calif. — Rickey Henderson, the Oakland kid who became the greatest leadoff hitter in baseball history and his hometown A’s biggest star, has died. Henderson would have turned 66 on Christmas ...