Rickey Henderson

CTL-E-6992 · Person · other · born 1958

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Rickey Henderson (born December 25, 1958, in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Oakland, California) is baseball's all-time leader in stolen bases (1,406) and runs scored (2,295), and the defining leadoff hitter in the game's history. Across twenty-five seasons — principally with the Oakland Athletics, in four separate stints — Henderson stole a single-season record 130 bases in 1982, won the 1990 American League MVP Award, and won World Series championships with Oakland in 1989 and Toronto in 1993. A ten-time All-Star, he holds the records for leadoff home runs (81) and unintentional walks at his retirement, and in 2003 he scored his final run to close records no active player approaches. The stolen-base mark, set in 1991 when he passed Lou Brock, has been called unbreakable by the statisticians who track such things; Henderson broke it mid-game and told the crowd, with Brock standing beside him, that he was the greatest of all time. He was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2009, his first year of eligibility.

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• Also known as: Rickey Nelson Henley Henderson, Man of Steal

Notes

Sports Encyclopedia roster CTL-SPE-0288. Firsts disposition: no 'first' asserted; records stated as the Hall of Fame states them (all-time stolen bases and runs; single-season 130 steals). His Chicago birth is carried as the Hall of Fame and Wikipedia state it — the roster's 'None documented' Chicago coding is superseded by those sources and flagged here for the roster. Curator's Judgment (DRAFT): Henderson did not just break the stolen-base record; he retired the category. Photo: CLEARED (as Mets coach, 2007, CC BY 2.0).

Sources

• National Baseball Hall of Fame. "Rickey Henderson." Accessed 2026-11-03. (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia. "Rickey Henderson." Accessed 2026-11-03. (build store)

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