Remembering Rickey Henderson

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In this bonus episode, we're taking a moment to remember the life of Rickey Henderson. The legendary baseball player died on December 20. He was 65. First, we'll revisit an essay written by Jesse Thorn in 2017 about what made Rickey one of the best to ever play the game. Then, an interview from 2022 with writer Howard Bryant, author of Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original.

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0:18.6	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of maximum fun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:26.7	It's Bolzai.
0:27.8	I'm Jesse Thorne.
0:29.7	Ricky Henderson died on December 20th.
0:32.7	He was one of the greatest baseball players of all time.
0:35.4	And I mean that very literally, one of the 10 or so greatest baseball players of all time. And I mean that very literally, one of the 10 or so
0:39.5	greatest baseball players of all time. He was also my favorite baseball player of all time.
0:45.9	Now, if you listen to this show for a long time, you probably know that I'm a San Francisco
0:50.7	Giants fan, but I grew up in a household led by an Oakland A's fan.
0:57.0	My dad grew up in Kansas City, rooting for the A's.
0:59.3	His favorite player as a kid was Vic Power.
1:01.8	And he lived two decades in the East Bay in Oakland and Berkeley.
1:07.4	So if we went to a game when I was a kid, it was usually an A's game. And I don't think
1:12.5	there has ever been a more exciting addition to a team, certainly I've never witnessed one,
1:19.5	than Ricky Henderson being traded back to the A's in 1989. It didn't end well for my favorite
1:26.6	team, the San Francisco Giants, who lost to the A's in the
1:30.2	World Series that year. But it made a lifelong fan of me. I'm not a huge memorabilia guy, but there is one
1:40.3	piece of baseball memorabilia here with me in my office. And that is an autographed batting
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