Whats the most impressive thing on that list ? 
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clt says Ichiro should be unanimous HOF pick
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clt says skenes better be alert
Oh wow.
Wow.
You younger NNN posters… What do you know about this guy?
If you’re not old enough to remember, he was the 
. The absolute base stealer. There was him and then like Vince Coleman that one year, but most years the gap between him and the next best base stealer was a country mile wide. And he could hit too, and get on base. And he could play the outfield… He would talk trash sometimes, but is it really trash if completely back it up?
I was a SF Giants fan when he played for the A’s, so I should have hated him, but I didn’t, because he was amazing.
R.I.P.
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Henderson, a 10-time All-Star and two-time World Series champion, stole 1,406 bases in his 24-year career — a record that remains intact to this day. In fact, that’s 468 more steals than Lou Brock, who is second all-time with 938.
He is also MLB’s all-time leader in runs scored, having touched home plate 2,295 times in his career. And he ranks second all-time in walks to Barry Bonds.
Henderson led the league in steals 12 times, in runs five times and in walks four times.
The 1990 American League MVP, Henderson also holds the MLB single-season record for stolen bases (130 in 1982). He’s the only player in AL history to steal 100 bases in a season, having done so three times.
Henderson, a Gold Glove Award recipient (1981) and three-time Silver Slugger Award winner, was part of nine different clubs, but was most widely known for his time spent with the Oakland Athletics (1979-84, 1989-93, 1994-95, 1998).
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Sorry to hear this, especially just days short of his 66th birthday. Definitely one of the greatest to ever play the game.
RIP Rickey 
Diving into my foggy memory bank to when I was a baseball junkie…
He was the guy. I mean THE GUY that made the phrase “turning a single into a triple” a real thing. He was a terror on the base paths. Most pitchers and catchers would just give up / hope they already had 2 outs so they could ignore him and focus on the guy at the plate. Because if you were a pitcher and you let him get to you, the next thing you knew you lost your focus and hung a curve ball that got blasted over the left field wall by the next hitter.
Back in the 80s and 90s, most games still weren’t on TV, and I still think I remember him stealing 2nd and 3rd at least a dozen times. I also think I only saw him get thrown out at 2nd one time, and I never saw him get picked off.
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Neat remembrance by Callahan:
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