![]() ![]() Henderson embraced this shift with his trademark style, playing for nine different teams throughout his decades-long career and sculpting a brash, larger-than-life persona that stole the nation’s heart. And it’s a story of a sea change in sports, when athletes gained celebrity status and Black players finally earned equitable salaries. But perhaps even more than his prowess on the field, Rickey Henderson’s is a story of Oakland, California, the town that gave rise to so many legendary athletes like him. ![]() “If you cut Rickey Henderson in half, you’d have two Hall of Famers,” the baseball historian Bill James once said. He holds the record for the most stolen bases in a single game, and he’s scored more runs than any player ever. Few names in the history of baseball evoke the excellence and dynamism that Rickey Henderson’s does. “Seldom does a sports biography-especially a page-turner-so comprehensively explain the forces that made an icon the way they are.” – Sports Illustrated From the author of The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron comes the definitive biography of Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson, baseball’s epic leadoff hitter and base-stealer who also stole America’s heart over nearly five electric decades in the game. ![]()
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