The Athletics announced on Monday that every player will wear the No. 24 to honor late franchise legend Rickey Henderson when ...

To honor the greatest player in franchise history, every A’s player and coach will wear number 24 for the team’s home opener on March 31. To commemorate the first home game of their inaugural season ...

Rickey Henderson is Black history ... but he might be the slowest brother from the batter’s circle to the home plate,” Junior joked. Former Oakland A’s pitcher Dave Stewart remembered ...

Consider that Rickey Henderson, who swiped a major league-record ... “Unfortunately, God calls everybody home at some point,” McCray said. “It was a really sad day for me.

His leadoff home runs (81, an MLB record ... he was inducted on the first ballot with 94.8% of the vote. Rickey Henderson and Jim Rice at their Hall of Fame induction in 2009.

“The rumor was that Rickey was a selfish player,” said ... he attended as a kid was in Oakland, where he saw Henderson hit a leadoff home run. He kept Henderson’s poster in his room.

He could finish with more home runs than his godfather, Willie Mays. He's won eight Gold Glove awards. Playing left for San Diego was Rickey Henderson. He was the MVP in 1990, the year before he ...

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