And it's a story of a sea change in sports, when athletes gained celebrity status and Black players finally earned equitable salaries. "If you cut Rickey Henderson in half, you'd have two Hall of Famers," the baseball historian Bill James once said.īut perhaps even more than his prowess on the field, Rickey Henderson's is a story of Oakland, California, the town that gave rise to so many legendary athletes like him. He holds the record for the most stolen bases in a single game, and he's scored more runs than any player ever. From the author of The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron comes the definitive biography of Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson, baseball's epic leadoff hitter and base-stealer who also stole America's heart over nearly five electric decades in the game.įew names in the history of baseball evoke the excellence and dynamism that Rickey Henderson's does.
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