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― Batsman (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 26 July 2009 15:40 (fourteen years ago) link
"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.
― http://tinyurl.com/ggggst (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 26 July 2009 17:07 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Beanbag the Gardener (WmC), Sunday, 26 July 2009 17:19 (fourteen years ago) link
my god it's full of runs
― a narwhal done gored my sister nell (cankles), Sunday, 26 July 2009 17:27 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― sanskrit, Monday, 27 July 2009 01:02 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Monday, 27 July 2009 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/gcutz.jpg
― sanskrit, Friday, 12 October 2012 13:48 (eleven years ago) link
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 Henderson2. Tim Raines3. Kenny Lofton4. Pete Rose5, Paul Molitor6. Richie Ashburn7. Brett Butler8. Ichiro Suzuki9. Stan Hack10. 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/
― clemenza, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link
Sorry, didn't realize that was behind the firewall. Almost always, if it's not by James it's publicly accessible.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 21:44 (seven years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/cc/b3/86/ccb3863562ddcd198d62ebdd065062a6.jpg
― calstars, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 22:58 (seven years ago) link
happy rickeymas! he is 60 today
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 25 December 2018 16:46 (five years ago) link
gather those rosebuds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lssLGZH9fQM
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 03:28 (five years ago) link
If he were to play next year, I bet he wouldn't score more than 70 runs.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 05:08 (five years ago) link
well, if Mike Trout was hitting behind him...
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 15:06 (five years ago) link