News Rickey Henderson Dead at 65

[liner]

Same here, except we didn’t have a tv so I had to wait for the newspaper the next day.

Ahh I also loved reading the box scores before school the next morning of games I had spent 3 hours watching the night before.

I also played ball all growing up and in HS. Baseball used to be my life.

A's games started at 7p. If it went past 10 I had to go to bed but would listen to the game quietly on my clock radio and then listen to the radio highlights if they won after it was over.

 

[KoreanZawmbie]

damn, rip.

 

[Berserker13]

RIP

 

[Berserker13]

Hopefully I don't have a heart attack today

 

[Jack Reacheround]

Damn. Only 65.

 

[Spounman]

I grew up going to A's games when he was on the team. RIP to the legend.

 

[GSP_37]

I love all these players and can still see each of them playing in my minds eye. Bordick has that weird stance and was fun to watch in the field. Baines looked so relaxed at the plate.canseco, fuck he was amazing he was so wound up at the plate and just swung out his shoes every time. Eck. a fav from around the Rickey time was Dave Stewart, that hat pulled down low, he was the man.

Watched a bunch of Rickey related videos on MLB app and didn't know Dave Stewart knew Rickey when they were 12 yrs old and playing kid ball against each other and on same team vs. international teams. There was one from Mattingly too, Andre Dawson.

 

[HHJ]

He was a real one.

 

[Brampton_Boy]

I also have some baseball cards laying around nearly all of them of Frank Thomas.

Got a Sammy Sosa rookie card, autographed Rick Dempsey, and a Ken Griffey/Barry Bonds duos card

Wish I would have kept them all. I collected a lot of them.

Frank Thomas was my favorite baseball player as a kid - The Big Hurt is a criminally underrated player.

He was the only guy from his era to voluntarily testify at the Mitchell report hearings about steroid abuse in baseball.

Forget Sosa, McGuire and Bonds. Thomas and Griffey Jr are the real all stars of the 90s.

 

[Prefect]

What did he die from? He didn't seem like a guy that would do drugs while retired. I imagine steroids on the A's but that was like 20+ years ago.

 

[Bobby Boulders]

He was the first player (really, maybe the only) I wanted to emulate, back when I played ball. He was a lefthanded lead-off hitter, and I was, as well. He was so fast to first base, and fast stealing bases, and watching him play was a real inspiration to me as a young player. Was pretty bummed to see the news he is gone. Peace be with his family and loved ones

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

Damn, RIP.

Part of Toronto Blue Jays legendary roster during the 1993 season.

 

[GSP_37]

Blue Jays, Dodgers, Yankees, maybe Redsox often have the best players pass through for a bit.

 

[italiamusica]

I loved Rickey Henderson as a kid. When he broke the all-time stolen base record it was a day game and no internet back then. The second I got home from school turned on sports center to see the highlight.

I miss those days. I don't watch any sport now aside from MMA, but I remember that too, getting out of school and running home to watch Sports Center to check out all the top plays and highlights.