Word: rickey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...however, with his awesome speed and helmet-first style, Rickey Henderson, 23, has brought the slippery science out of the bars and back to the bleachers. The reason? The Oakland Athletics' ebullient outfielder riddled Brock's seemingly shatterproof record last Friday night in a four-steal spree. Said a jubilant A's manager, Billy Martin: "He's the most exciting player since Mickey Mantle...
Smith had less patience with twolegged animals, particularly when they ran athletics into the ground. George Steinbrenner was George III. Avery Brundage and his flunkies on the International Olympic Committee were the "waxworks." He idolized owners like Connie Mack and Branch Rickey but later sided with the players "in the slave cabins...
...look at baseball's Total Average stars in 1980. Boswell notes, illustrates the strengths of the statistic. Slash-hitter George Brett, speedster Rickey and Henderson, and sluggers Reggie Jackson and Mike Schmidt all topped the prodigious 1,000 mark: yet all are vastly different offensive animals from one another. Overrated stars like Omar "The Out Maker" Moreno (.682) and Steve "No Walks" Garvey are uncovered under the precise camera of Totals Average. Boswell gleefully gloats...
Oakland got its only run in the fifth on a single by Rob Picciolo, a double by Rickey Henderson and a run-scoring ground out by Duane Murphy...
...gave the game the garish doubleknit uniforms that became commonplace. He harassed his managers by telephoning strategy to the dugout, yet installed a 16-year-old fan as vice president. For all his buffoonery, Finley was as shrewd a judge of talent as any in the sport since Branch Rickey. Roll the names over in the mind: Jackson, Rudi, Bando, Hunter, Fingers, Blue. But he lost them all, and others, because he was unwilling to pay them well. Toward the end, he ordered that his players' half-fare airline coupons be collected as they stepped off the planes from...