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...Rickey Henderson...
Does this bother you, Billy, having the best players play the game? "Well, that catch Ken Griffey made was terrific, and can you believe the way Rickey Henderson was playing? He hit 20 homers, and the Yankees didn't even get him for his power. But, I mean, we invented the game. They can't just take it over...
...resurgence of the stolen base in baseball over the last ten years is manifest. Speed merchants like Lou Brock, Willie Wilson, Tim Raines and Rickey Henderson have changed the game Try to name the pair of players who have combined for the greatest number of stolen bases in a single season for the same team. Take five points for each half of the fleet-footed combination...
...place on the ticket would have enormous symbolic power. Ann Lewis, like some other feminists, makes the Jackie Robinson analogy when she talks about a woman vice president. "If Branch Rickey had asked people whether to put a black on the field, would they have ever told him, 'Now'? Putting Jackie Robinson in a Dodgers uniform was good for the Dodgers, good for baseball and good for the country...
Minor League Commissioner Bill Bramham exploded: "Father Divine will have to look to his laurels, for we can expect Rickey Temple to be in the course of construction in Harlem soon." Ex-Star Rogers Hornsby put his finger on a sore spot: "Ball players on the road live [close] together. It won't work." Most baseball men, after an initial blush, realized that it could and perhaps would work (it had worked pretty well in college sports...