1993 — Rickey Henderson of the Oakland Athletics opened both games of a doubleheader with a homer to become the second player to accomplish the feat. Harry Hooper of the Boston Red Sox homered to ...

In the early 1980s, the A's accounting department was freaking out because their books were off by $1 million -- and as the famous story goes, Henderson had taken a $1 million bonus check and ...

Late in Rickey Henderson's career, his Seattle Mariners teammate Mike Cameron would reach for the bus microphone as the team lumbered from airports to hotels, and he read aloud some of the recent ...

Rickey Henderson on the field with New York Mets team-mates before a play-off game against the Arizona Diamondback in Phoenix on October 6th, 1999. Photograph: Ozier Muhammad/New York Times ...

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Here’s a look at some of our favorite moments from Henderson’s career and, as he would have said, Rickey being Rickey. How it started The Oakland Tech grad was just 20 and barely three years ...

The MLB record book is filled with Henderson’s name. Some of his records, such as career marks for stolen bases, runs scored, leadoff home run and even times caught stealing, may never be broken.