The last time I saw Rickey Henderson was late September in the Athletics’ clubhouse as the last, sad homestand at the Oakland Coliseum wound down to its final game. I’d known him since 1979 when he was brought up to the big leagues in his first run with the A’s.

Rickey Henderson, a prolific lead-off hitter for the Oakland Athletics in the 1980s and 90s who became baseball's all-time stolen bases leader, dies at 65.

Henderson wasn’t just one of the greatest to play baseball — as he once acknowledged about himself. He was certifiably cool, radiating with the swagger Oaklanders see in themselves and

A week after Rickey Henderson’s death, enough of the notion-as-fact nonsense. He was not the “greatest baserunner in history.”

The baseball community mourns the death of stolen base king Rickey Henderson. Henderson died on Friday at the age of 65.