The 1980 Topps card is Rickey Henderson’s mainstream rookie and one of the most iconic and recognizable baseball cards of all time. Despite being graded by PSA more than 43,000 times, only 26 ...

The other 23,369 players in MLB history combined have four. Henderson recorded more than 3,055 hits and 297 home runs with a .279 batting average, while he also holds the record for runs scored ...

Late in Rickey Henderson's career, his Seattle 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 runs to first after hitting a single for the Surf Dawgs on May 24, 2005. (Lenny Ignelzi / Associated Press) But in most other ways, it wasn’t that they were in the presence of a ...

His detractors were not completely wrong. Rickey was difficult. Rickey was a force of his own making, for better and, for a manager, often for worse -- especially when he saw himself as underpaid.

Henderson beat them himself in the 1989 American League Championship Series. Not with any particular hit, but through his essential Rickeyness. In the second game of that series, he stole four bases.

Rickey Henderson waves to the crowd during a presentation after he stole third base against the Toronto Blue Jays in the seventh inning to break Ty Cobb's career stolen base record, at Oakland ...

Rickey Henderson was -- now and forever -- the greatest leadoff hitter ever. 136d Bradford Doolittle. Dodgers OF Hernandez (groin) out 'for a while' 5h ESPN News Services.

The tributes to the great Rickey Henderson are pouring in after we learned of the Hall of Famer’s sad, sudden passing, just days before his 66th birthday.Baseball’s “Man of Steal” has been rightly ...