Ricky steals the couch

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• MikeSeaver Member Posts: 5,276

  December 21

  Rip

  What a fuckin player. He gave me one of his bats at a spring training game about 30 years ago. I still have it.

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• RaceBannon Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 106,789

  December 21

  He's a legend

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• DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 64,051

  December 21

  Fuck. 66 is way too young for a guy that seemingly healthy. RIP to one of my favorites

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• DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 64,051

  December 21

  https://twitter.com/nut_history/status/1870559169549566194?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

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• chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,188

  12:11AM

  Today he is the greatest.

  Seriously. There haven't been many players in his level in my lifetime. He was an odd dude that I mostly hated while he was playing, but I never once heard anything bad about him as a teammate or person.

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• digits Member Posts: 1,595

  12:57AM

  My favorite MLB player of all-time for a myriad of reasons.
  
  RIP Ricky.

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• digits Member Posts: 1,595

  2:09AM edited 2:12AM

  Great article, I never knew he was a highly recruited football player:
  
  

  https://apnews.com/article/rickey-henderson-dead-stolen-base-king-bdeb785acf343e95fc53d008b2f8803e

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• Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,454

  4:18AM edited 4:21AM

  Rickey is the only MLB HOF’er that batted right handed and threw left handed (aka the Canadian Curse, because hockey)…with his speed, he might have hit 20-30 points higher from the left side…RIP

  EDIT: I just read that he said he batted right handed because when he was a kid, everyone he played with batted right, and that was how he thought you were supposed to do it.

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• Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,454

  4:39AM

  I just remembered a story that I first read in George Will's book, Men at Work (excellent read), and got to hear it in person several years later from his rookie ball manager, Tom Trebelhorn.

  Treb gave Rickey the green light to steal, whenever he wanted to go. Rickey wanted Treb to give him signs like everyone else got. After trying to talk Rickey out of it, Treb gave him the signs…steal, bunt, hit and run, and the take off sign, to wipe them clean. Rickey gets on base, Treb gives him some signs, playing along, and then takes it off…Rickey steals second. Treb gives another set, takes them off, and Rickey steals third.

  After then game, Treb said (loosely quoting), "Why do you want me to give you signs if you ignore them?" Rickey said "What do you mean? You gave me the take off sign, so I took off for second, and took off for third"…csb, he was one of a kind

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