![]() Now, in the hands of critically acclaimed sportswriter and culture critic Howard Bryant, one of baseball’s greatest and most original stars finally gets his due. Seldom does a sports biography-especially a page-turner-so comprehensively. Henderson embraced this shift with his trademark style, playing for nine different teams throughout his decades-long career and sculpting a brash, larger-than-life persona that stole the nation’s heart. Buy a cheap copy of Rickey: The Life and Legend of an. 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. “Seldom does a sports biography-especially a page-turner-so comprehensively explain the forces that made an icon the way they are.” – Sports Illustratedįrom 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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