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My wife read of a wonderful Rickey obit from the NYT--in the link below. Since I didn't have free hand at the time, she read it out loud to me. After she read a paragraph, I would recall a story about Rickey, and then that story would pop up in the very next paragraph. What a memorable person and player. My wife is not a baseball fan, but even she was drawn into the story of Rickey's life and personality.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/spor ... -dead.html
One quote--among many-- from the obit:
And here's another:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/spor ... -dead.html
One quote--among many-- from the obit:
Once, playing against the Orioles, he stood on first base and seemed to flash the peace sign — two fingers — to the third baseman, Floyd Rayford.
“Rayford didn’t know what he meant,” the sportswriter Joe Posnanski wrote in “The Baseball 100,” in which he ranked Henderson the 24th-greatest player ever. “That’s because it wasn’t a peace sign — Rickey was holding up the number two. And two pitches later, he was standing on third with Rayford after having stolen two bases.”
And here's another:
His crouched batting stance shrank his already small strike zone. (The Los Angeles Times sportswriter Jim Murray would later write that “Henderson has a strike zone the size of Hitler’s heart.”)