Corridor of Famer and Main League Baseball’s profession steals chief Rickey Henderson has died on the age of 65, in line with a number of reviews, and confirmed by the New York Post.
Henderson, who’s broadly thought-about to be one of many best leadoff hitters and base stealers within the historical past of the game, performed for 9 totally different groups in his 25-year profession, compiling 3,055 hits, 297 dwelling runs and 1,115 RBI. His 2,295 profession runs and 1,406 stolen bases stay Main League information.
Henderson was a 10-time All-Star, and gained the league MVP in 1990 with the Oakland Athletics, when he hit .325 with 28 dwelling runs, 61 RBI and 65 stolen bases. He additionally boasted a 1.016 OPS (on-base plus slugging) that season and a .439 OBP. He gained two World Sequence titles in his Corridor of Fame profession, one with the Athletics in 1989 and one other with the Toronto Blue Jays in ’93.
He was inducted into Cooperstown as a first-ballot Corridor of Famer in 2009.