The Life and Legend of Rickey Henderson

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🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Rickey Henderson is not only the MLB’s all-time stolen base king, not just the all-time leader in runs scored, he’s one of the best players the game has ever seen…or as baseball writer Bill James once said, “you could cut him in half and have two Hall of Famers.” But Henderson wasn’t always as revered as he is now, as his bold personality clashed with baseball purists at the time. Howard Bryant, author of the new book RICKEY: The Life and Legend of an American Original, looks back on Rickey’s 25-year career and tells us why baseball was never able to control him…no matter how hard it tried. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	ESPN Daily is presented by Supercuts, the smarter, easier way to get a haircut.
0:07.0	It's not just any haircut.
0:08.8	It's Supercuts.
0:28.8	He has the voice of Hall of Famer Ricky Henderson on May 1st, 1991 in all of his splendor.
0:34.4	He has just broken Lou Brock's record for career stolen bases and Howard Bryant, when you
0:39.3	hear those words from Ricky today, what comes to mind, man?
0:44.4	Well, I think two things immediately come to mind.
0:47.3	The first is the hilarity of the moment.
0:50.8	Because when he said I am the greatest of all time, his own teammates were in the dugout
0:55.4	Dave Henderson and Willie Wilson and Connie Lansford, they were all looking at each other and
1:02.1	they said, did he really just say that I am the greatest today?
1:08.2	Did he just say that with Lou Brock five feet from him?
1:13.0	Yes.
1:14.0	That's the hilarity of it.
1:16.0	But the bigger picture piece of it is, wow.
1:22.5	Ricky Henderson obliterated the record books.
1:25.8	When you think about all time records, you gotta be an old man to break those records.
1:31.8	When you're Barry Banger in your 40s, when you're Hank Aaron to break Bay Booth's record,
1:36.3	it's a 40 year old Hank Aaron trudging around the bases when you see Pete Rose breaking
1:40.8	the all time record.
1:42.3	He's 40 years old.
1:44.3	Ricky was 32 to break in all time record and still play for 10 more years.
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