RICKEY HENDERSON THAT DUDE

he's not still playing in some independent league, is he? but he was last year?

-- jergïns, Thursday, August 2, 2007 8:17 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

serious answer: he's a mets coach now

http://www.cantstopthebleeding.com/?p=10667

serious answer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q1kcftSGug

awes midwestern aspie guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL4WjXvtQD4
(shades of king of comedy)

ffw to the very end: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr8m8hONvpw
only worth it because some dude shouts "rickey touched my hand!"

odd silent collectro porn: http://one.revver.com/watch/124798

FineBrothers

Rickey Henderson and Bobby Bonilla playing cards in the clubhouse WHILE A GAME WAS UNDERWAY.

Seriously, I love Rickey. My dad freaked out when I hung a poster of him in my room when I was 12.

Henderson and Bonilla playing cards in the clubhouse WHILE A PLAYOFF GAME WAS UNDERWAY

Henderson and Bonilla playing cards in the OUTFIELD DURING GAME 7 OF THE WORLD SERIES

Henderson and Bonilla playing cards in the OUTFIELD DURING EXTRA INNINGS IN GAME 7 OF THE WORLD SERIES AFTER KILLING A BIRD

Henderson and Bonilla FUCKING A BIRD IN MONUMENT PARK

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/pics/rickey_henderson_autograph.jpghttp://img516.imageshack.us/img516/4411/rickeyrw0.jpghttp://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/pics/rickey_henderson_autograph.jpg

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^^^pls explain this, young man.

someone snatched Rickey's chain

Honor Rickey again

http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/bats-right-throws-left-the-best-players-in-major-league-history/

fuck that marginal hof inductee interloper jim rice with a fungo bat but:

http://www.youtube.com/v/RSRptJ8fj-Q&hl=en&fs=1

ignore the above this is better:

That was not a convincing "no" he gave about Game 6 of the 2004 World Series.

I'm going to "Rickey Henderson Night" at the Oakland Coliseum.

They are going to retire his jersey in a pregame ceremony and the first 10,000 fans get a retro-jersey. I love Rickey. discus.

I love Rickey too. He had every right to call himself the greatest. Lou Brock should've stole more bases if he didn't want to witness that.

I wonder if he actually "cashed" that million-dollar check.

damn i feel guilty posting those apocryphal stories upthread after seeing that mlb network special on him from last sunday. if it comes up again near induction time (and it will), watch or tivo the shit out of it. really great interviews, touching stuff.

oh just looked it up it's this sunday they're inducting JHEAH

The Henderson special is on again at 10:30am Saturday and 6:00pm Sunday (eastern).

http://pics.librarything.com/picsizes/12/d3/12d34f437efdbed5935474a5351434d414f4541.jpg

^^I owned and read this as a kid

http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_mlb_experts__32/ept_sports_mlb_experts-620854798-1248480943.jpg?ymwK.nBDDH7IpMnE

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Honoring-Rickey-Henderson-The-best-photos-and-q?urn=mlb,178662

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"They kept that s--- a secret from me ... I wish they had told me. My God, could you imagine Rickey on 'roids? Oh, baby, look out!" — Henderson on steroids, The New Yorker, Sept. 12, 2005

Love. This. Guy.

I haven't cared about the HoF in years, but between Rickey and Rice (who was my hero when I first started watching the game), I'll even listen to Harold Reynolds today.

my god it's full of runs

old and everyone's heard it, but illest quote ever:

"If you could split him in two, you'd have two Hall of Famers." — Bill James, baseball statistician

If you could split him in two, you'd have two guys who are bad at reading off of cards:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSRptJ8fj-Q

http://i.imgur.com/gcutz.jpg

Extremely detailed piece by Daniel Marks that tries to sort leadoff hitters through the years into families, finishing with a ranking of the 25 greatest:

1. Rickey Henderson
2. Tim Raines
3. Kenny Lofton
4. Pete Rose
5, Paul Molitor
6. Richie Ashburn
7. Brett Butler
8. Ichiro Suzuki
9. Stan Hack
10. Craig Biggio

First thought is that the families are too specific--there's like 20 of them, when a more generalized six or seven would be more user-friendly. Carew's omission from the rankings is easily explained: he only led off 370 games. Boggs at #20 less defensible, I'd say, even with the disclaimer that "I do give a fair amount of weight to having done the job for a long time"--he led off almost 1,000 games, and ranks below a number of inferior hitters who led off somewhere between 1,000-1,300 games. Anyway, impressive piece.

http://www.billjamesonline.com/%e2%80%9clet_your_first_striker_always_be_the_coolest_hand_of_the_nine%e2%80%9d/

Sorry, didn't realize that was behind the firewall. Almost always, if it's not by James it's publicly accessible.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/cc/b3/86/ccb3863562ddcd198d62ebdd065062a6.jpg

happy rickeymas! he is 60 today

gather those rosebuds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lssLGZH9fQM

If he were to play next year, I bet he wouldn't score more than 70 runs.

well, if Mike Trout was hitting behind him...

I said he was unique on the general RIP (non-baseball) thread. Checking into that, I haven't yet found a HOF'er with a lower Similarity Score for his #1 comp (just checking post deadball--different game before that). Henderson's was 713--not Raines (way down around 650), but, believe it or not, Craig Biggio.

Ruth and Williams and Bonds and Foxx and Gehrig were all kind of similar; lowest #1 in that group belongs to Ruth at 740 (Bonds). Gehrig/Foxx/Williams are all clustered together in the mid-high 800s.

Mays/Aaron/Robinson/Pujols/Griffey all have #1s over 800, usually drawn from that group.

Mantle would seem to have a foot in both those groups, but looks like he, Frank Thomas, Mike Schmidt, and Gary Sheffield have their own little cluster in the low-mid 800s.

Clemente? Vada Pinson and Al Oliver are both over 850. Jackie Robinson has a number of players in the 800s.

Sandy Koufax would seem to be unique because of his shortened career and extreme skill set, but his #1 is actually Rod Guidry around 900. I thought Ryan might be lower: his #1 is Carlton around 750. For closers, Rivera is generally viewed as being on his own planet, but his #1, Trevor Hoffman, is close to 900. Other famous closers become more and more interchangeable over the course of their careers--won't even bother checking.

That's about 20 minutes' worth of research. I really doubt that there was another post-deadball HOF'er as statistically sui generis as Henderson. If you limited the comparison to a five-year period, maybe even a decade, I'm guessing Henderson and Raines would have a much higher Similarity Score.

Holy shit. Just heard the news. He was my favorite player as a kid. The only athlete I ever had a poster of on my room.

Fuck stats
So much fun to watch play

Excellent point--mutually exclusive. We get caught up in things like Rickey's SB record solely because of the fun, not because there's a number involved.

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Anyway, Similarity Score is not a stat--it's a way of comparing two players to see how similar they are. I said, off the cuff, that there was no one ever like Rickey. Sometimes I like to check the stuff I say to see if there's any truth to it.

And just to completely contradict myself, something I wrote just after Henderson's HOF induction.

I remember when he came to the NYY and it was Henderson / Randolph / Mattingly / Winfield for a minute

I'm going to "Rickey Henderson Night" at the Oakland Coliseum.

They are going to retire his jersey in a pregame ceremony and the first 10,000 fans get a retro-jersey. I love Rickey. discus.

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I still wear this shirsey.

I remember when he came to the NYY and it was Henderson / Randolph / Mattingly / Winfield for a minute

Even with four-team playoff brackets, it's amazing (in retrospect) that they never made the playoffs with this crew. But the Jays/Tigers/Red Sox had incendiary teams too.

my main memory of watching rickey was as a 40 year old on the bobby valentine mets. he had 37 steals that year, which was a far cry from the 66 he had in oakland the year before

The only valuable baseball card I ever had was his rookie card.

why past tense? WHAT HAPPENED?!

https://www.dking-gallery.com/pix/Misc/OakAs_Henderson119_A.jpg

this is the poster i had on my wall as a kid

https://media-photos.depop.com/b1/48877929/2051402663_92c21c83d8a04705950fff71a524b5c4/P0.jpg

That’s dope
I have his 84 Donruss card, will pull that out later

i had this on my bedroom shelf as a kid

https://i.imgur.com/ukSfcnr.png

rip rickey henderson! you were otherworldly

Rickey's rookie card is 1980, so maybe the last great rookie card before Fleer and Donruss jumped in and everything got progressively more complicated.

https://i.postimg.cc/T32jbXVP/s-l1600.jpg

I've got a ton of Rickey cards, but not that one, and mostly late '80s/early '90s.

i have an ‘85 topps

i had this on my bedroom shelf as a kid

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rip rickey henderson! you were otherworldly

RIP

First player I think of when I hear the phrase "high motor"

He wasn't on the juice, he had The Juice. Legend.

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a commenter on a globe article noted that only 10 men have played 3000 mlb games and three of them died this year - rickey, pete rose and willie mays

the greatest bats right/throws left player ever

Rickey you were the best

A Facebook friend posted his HOF speech, and, when he singled out the scout who recruited him in 1976, he made mention of the fact that Oakland was willing to overlook his BR/TL combination, so I take it that many teams weren't.

the "ugly girlfriend" of '76