Rickey Henderson's Speech
 

One of my favorite players of all time.

One of my favorites too, along with Don Mattingly and Dave Winfield.

He played almost 30 years in the MLB too right? I know '79 was his first year and if I'm not mistaken he was still playing up until a few years back.

Same here. Loved Mattingly and Winfield. Too bad Mattingly didn't play longer. He was great.

I sooo wanted to see him in the Manager position with the Yankees. Maybe next time.

Just watched the replay, yesterday on ESPN Classic, where he broke Brock's record. I love the way he ended his in-game speech.

Lou Brock was the symbol of great base stealing. But today, I'm the greatest of all time. Thank you.

I remember I had mono and was in fifth grade when the A's were rocking it with Ricky Henderson.

Fuck the Yankees... but what a line-up... fuckers. :D

(disgruntled O's fan here)

I loved the quote about Reggie Jackson where Ricky talks about how Reggie wouldnt give him an autograph but would give him named pens instead funny

Or as George Steinbrenner so eloquently referred to him: "Mr. May."

I Have met Rickey many time when I lived in the bay area when he played for the As. He along with other players were very "ME First" kind of guys.. Rickey never did anything to give back to the community while he was in oakland. The year he held out for more money, He just made himeself look even worse...Remember this speech.. he was talking to a reporter from a local tv station about his holding out.." They just gonna look around and say bing bing where he at" That was rickey at his best.. what a joke... Just my 2 cents..

That was my favorite part lol

He isn't getting put in the hall of fame for his community service. While he might be selfish he was a hell of a ball player. No one is going to touch that stolen base record.

Now you just gave me chills! My all time favorite was Don Mattingly, followed by Ricky and then Dave.

When my brother Stephen and I were young (starting when we were 4 and 5 as we were a year apart), my Dad would take us to all the Yankees spring training games that were played here in Fort Lauderdale at the 'Little Yankee Stadium'.

My Dad was friends with the guy who did the security for the player parking lot and would let us come in and hang our waiting for all the players to arrive. Needless to say our toe-heads were always at full attention with our gloves, sharpie pens and baseball cards for the assorted players in hand. I cannot tell you how many times I saw, spoke with, and received autographs from the 3 players mentioned above.

Another memorable person that we met was Whitey Ford. I believe he was helping as batting coach back then. Oh and I have a pretty funny story about us meeting Steinbrenner at one of the Spring training seasons too.

For the life of me I can't remember what Don or Dave drove, but Ricky always had this bad ass blue tricked out mercedes.

I was big in baseball growing up and always played first base and wore the number 23. As I got older and played many different sports, I still always wore 23, and by that time everyone assumed it was because of Jordan. Nope, it went a lot further back than that and was always my ode to Mattingly.

Ricky Henderson was our hero, watching him steal bases and break season records year after year was a big part of my childhood :)

Damn you are perfect :winkwink:

That about sums it up.