“Tenure? Rickey Got 15-Year”

David Cross favorite and sometime Oakland Athletics left fielder Rickey Henderson is finally on the ballot for the Baseball Hall of Fame, contingent on his not randomly being picked up by a Major League team sometime between now and the vote in July. Rickey will clearly be elected on the first ballot, but probably not for the correct reasons. I all but guarantee that the first thing mentioned on Henderson’s plaque in Cooperstown will be his ownership of baseball’s all-time stolen base record. However, Rickey’s base-stealing prowess merely augmented his actual value on the baseball field, as well as in the hearts and minds of a generation of novelty connoisseurs.

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