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Deion Sanders Honors MLB Legend Rickey Henderson in IG Picture: ‘My Baseball Hero’

Timothy Rapp @@TRappaRT Featured Columnist IV December 22, 2024 Andrew Wevers/Getty Images Colorado football head coach Deion Sanders paid his respects to Rickey Henderson on Sunday after the MLB legend died on Saturday at the age of 65, calling Henderson his “baseball hero.” MLB @MLB “Rickey Henderson is my baseball hero!” Deion Sanders pays his

Deion Sanders Honors MLB Legend Rickey Henderson in IG Picture: ‘My Baseball Hero’

Timothy Rapp@@TRappaRTX.com LogoFeatured Columnist IVDecember 22, 2024

BOULDER, COLORADO - NOVEMBER 29: Head coach Deion Sanders of the Colorado Buffaloes walks the field prior to the game against the Oklahoma State Cowboys at Folsom Field on November 29, 2024 in Boulder, Colorado. (Photo by Andrew Wevers/Getty Images)

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Colorado soccer head coach Deion Sanders paid his respects to Rickey Henderson on Sunday after the MLB legend died on Saturday on the age of 65, calling Henderson his “baseball hero.”

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“Rickey Henderson is my baseball hero!”

Deion Sanders pays his respects to the nice Rickey Henderson ❤️ pic.twitter.com/ev73RYWvQ0

Sanders was a two-sport athlete throughout his enjoying days and spent 9 seasons in Main League Baseball, accumulating 186 stolen bases in his profession, together with 56 within the 1997 season.

Had Sanders performed baseball full time, he in all probability would have been far increased on the all-time steals listing, given his elite quickness and pace.

He would not have gotten near Henderson, nonetheless, as a result of no one in MLB historical past got here near the previous MVP and 10-time All-Star. Henderson’s 1,406 stolen bases is essentially the most in MLB historical past and a whopping 468 greater than the No. 2 participant on the listing, Lou Brock.

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Sanders additionally wasn’t the hitter that Henderson was, with a profession .263 batting common and .319 on-base share, in comparison with Henderson’s .279 profession batting common and .401 on-base share. Henderson was the sport’s biggest base-stealer as a result of he was arguably one of the best lead-off hitter within the historical past of the game, giving him loads of probabilities to swipe luggage.

Considered one of Henderson’s most legendary video games was one the place he didn’t get a single hit, as a substitute strolling 4 occasions, stealing 5 bases and scoring 4 runs throughout a 1989 contest. Strolling Henderson was principally the identical as giving up a double, and one of many the reason why he was revered by each his friends and the gamers who adopted.

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