Rickey Henderson Elected into Hall of Fame

January 12, 2009 2 Comments

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It’s about damn time, too! Being one of my all-time favorite baseball players, it’s awesome to find out that he was voted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, joining the likes of others such as Wade Boggs, Cal Ripken Jr., Ty Cobb, Hank Aaron, Cy Young, Babe Ruth and Ted Williams, to name a few.

Rickey Henderson, widely considered the greatest leadoff hitter in the history of baseball, was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame Monday on his first ballot with 94.8 percent of the votes cast by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.

…Henderson established himself as baseball’s supreme leadoff hitter by banging out 3,055 hits in a 25-season career spanning four decades (1979-2003) that included four tours with the Athletics and stops with the Yankees, Blue Jays, Padres, Angels, Mets, Mariners, Red Sox and Dodgers.

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Unfortunately, this event just reminds me that I have yet to locate the one baseball card I have wanted every since I saw it as a kid: The one with Lou Brock and Rickey Henderson in suits holding a base with the number 939 on it, to commemorate May 1, 1991, when Rickey surpassed Lou’s record.

On a semi-related note, the Oakland A’s just got Giambi back, so next season is TOTALLY our season!

In b4 “people still watch baseball?”