Word: rickey
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Conversely, superstars such as Rickey Henderson, Barry Bonds and Albert Belle have been vilified in the press as self-centered millionaires whose attitude negates their talent...
Scoring: H--Rich Wilmot (Armando Petruccelli), 13:50; H--Chns Wojcik (penalty kick), 47:50; H--Toure McCluskey (Wilmot), 53:41; H--Wilmot (Rickey Le), 56:57; H--McCluskey (T.J. Carella), 63:43; H--Kevin Silva (unassisted), 68:59; H--Zach Viders (Petruccelli), 77:41; Viders (Petruccelli...
...Series for the Braves, Sanders batted .533 with five stolen bases in four games. The Braves traded him to the Reds in May, partly because the front office had tired of his act, but there are those who think that if he sticks to baseball, he might put up Rickey Henderson-like numbers...
...also a bit much. In its grandiloquent excess, Baseball reflects the sport's increasingly hallowed status in American life. Somewhere along the road from Cap Anson to Rickey Henderson, baseball ceased being merely a game; it became a poem. Grubby, declasse sports like football and basketball might draw more crowds and more national TV coverage, but for truly discriminating fans -- the ones with Ivy League degrees who never sit in the bleachers -- baseball became the sport supreme. It's the one with the perfect, immutable dimensions and no clock to artificially limit the action; the one that values finesse...
...blood human being. We comfortably call him "O.J.," even though we've never met him, because in our mind he's a friend. Even if convicted of murder, he'll never be an abstract symbol of evil like the typical death-penalty customer with three names -- Robert Alton Harris, Rickey ; Ray Rector, John Wayne Gacy et al. For once, in the competition of humanization between the murderer and his victims, the murderer would have an unbeatable edge...