When I was an 11-year-old kid with skinned knees, tube socks and a Huffy bike, the Oakland A’s occupied about 90% of my thoughts: who was pitching that day, who was batting .300, and above all else, ...

Rickey Henderson was born fast. It was Christmas Day in 1958, and Henderson’s mother was in the back seat of an Oldsmobile speeding toward a Chicago hospital, unexpectedly caught in a race against her ...

Rickey Henderson, the Hall of Famer who colorfully combined style, flash and an unrivaled brilliance on the basepaths to become one of the defining players of his generation, died on Friday, according ...

Rickey Henderson defined a generation of baseball that's played much differently than today. Part of his legacy is how he defined the 1980s as a baseball player. In the playground, we wanted to run as ...

Baseball’s stolen base king was born at high speed, on Christmas Day 1958, in the back of an Oldsmobile hurtling through a blizzard toward a Chicago-area hospital. The man who would go on to swipe a ...

Rickey Henderson, the greatest leadoff hitter and base stealer in Major League Baseball history whose blazing speed, discerning eye and unusual home run power complemented an irrepressible swagger ...

A couple days after Rickey Henderson made his major league debut on June 24, 1979, a silver station wagon pulled up to a yellow house, awaiting moving vans that wouldn’t fully arrive for a week or two ...

Rickey Henderson, the Hall of Famer who colorfully combined style, flash and an unrivaled brilliance on the basepaths to become one of the defining players of his generation, died on Friday, according ...