“Rickey lived his life with integrity, and his love for baseball was paramount.”
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MLB legend and all-time steals chief Rickey Henderson has handed away at age 65.
Henderson, a Major League Baseball Hall of Famer and two-time World Sequence champion, died on Friday (Dec. 20) from problems associated to pneumonia.
The baseball star was beforehand admitted to a hospital on account of his deteriorating well being previous to information of his demise, which shortly unfold all through the sports activities world upon affirmation by Henderson’s household.
Rickey Henderson #24, Left Discipline for the Oakland Athletics swings at a pitch in the course of the Main League Baseball American League West sport in opposition to the California Angels on twenty first June 1992 on the Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim, California, United States. The California Angels received the sport 4 – 2.
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“A legend on and off the sector, Rickey was a faithful son, dad, good friend, grandfather, brother, uncle, and a very humble soul,” Henderson’s spouse, Pamela Henderson, said of her late husband in an announcement launched on Saturday (Dec. 21).
“Rickey lived his life with integrity, and his love for baseball was paramount. Now, Rickey is at peace with the Lord, cherishing the extraordinary moments and achievements he leaves behind.”
Former Oakland Athletics Rickey Henderson (L) and Dave Stewart (R) stands collectively after Henderson threw out the ceremonial first pitch previous to the beginning of the opening night time sport between the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and Oakland Athletics on the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum on April 3, 2017 in Oakland, California. The Athletics renamed the sector “Rickey Henderson Discipline.”
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MLB commissioner Rob Manfred additionally acknowledged the previous American League MVP for his stellar play and contributions to the sport.
“For a number of generations of baseball followers, Rickey Henderson was the gold normal of base stealing and leadoff hitting,” Manfred stated in an announcement. “Rickey was one of the crucial achieved and beloved Athletics of all time.”
Former Oakland Athletics participant Rickey Henderson sits within the dugout earlier than the Oakland Athletics sport in opposition to the Texas Rangers on the Oakland Coliseum on September 26, 2024 in Oakland, California. Immediately would be the closing Athletics sport performed on the Coliseum.
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The commissioner continued, including that Henderson “additionally made an affect with many different golf equipment throughout a quarter-century profession like no different. Rickey epitomized velocity, energy, and leisure in setting the tone on the prime of the lineup.”
Drafted by the Oakland A’s within the fourth spherical of the 1976 MLB Draft, Henderson was known as as much as the most important leagues in 1979, shortly turning into one of many extra sensational gamers in all of baseball.
He turned the third participant within the trendy period to steal 100 bases in a single season throughout his rookie yr and later broke Corridor of Famer Lou Brock’s single-season report with 130 stolen bases in 1982.
Alex Rodriguez #13 of the New York Yankees and baseball Corridor of Famer Rickey Henderson look on in the course of the groups Previous Timer’s Day previous to a sport in opposition to the Detroit Tigers at Yankee Stadium on June 20, 2015 within the Bronx borough of New York Metropolis.
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Henderson could be traded to the New York Yankees in 1984 earlier than returning to the A’s in 1989, profitable the MVP of the American League Championship Sequence and main the A’s to their first World Series title in franchise historical past.
Henderson would additionally play for the Toronto Blue Jays, with whom he received his second and final World Sequence in 1993, the San Diego Padres, Anaheim Angels, New York Mets, Seattle Mariners, Boston Purple Sox, and Los Angeles Dodgers earlier than retiring in 2003 after 25 seasons.
Henderson stays MLB’s all-time steals chief with 1,406 bases stolen bases and was inducted into the Corridor of Fame in 2009.
Rickey Henderson shakes the hand of Pepsi MAX “Discipline of Desires” contest winner Tim Wisecup previous to the beginning of the Pepsi MAX “Discipline Of Desires” sport at Huntington Park on Might 12, 2012 in Columbus, Ohio.
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