A columnist reminisces on his youthful fandom and the intense devotion to the unorthodox player who made sports matter.

Since his passing, fans of the late Oakland A's legend Rickey Henderson have placed makeshift memorials at the gates of the ...

She recalls a moment, months before her husband passed when Henderson showed her and her son kindness at a meet-and-greet event. "We got up to the front of the line, he got Rickey's autograph ...

Rickey Henderson of the Oakland A’s signs an autograph for Josh Shaffer in 1981, captured by the young fan in this blurry photograph. Josh Shaffer Rickey Henderson signed an autograph for me twice.

Henderson left an indelible mark on the city of Oakland, where he grew up and thrived as the best player to wear an Oakland A ...

More than a Hall of Famer, Rickey Henderson is an icon, an emblem of the culture, an ambassador for the self-actualization so ...

Like you, I seldom slow down enough to reflect on the past, at least not in a deep way. But every now and then the past finds ...