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BP Daily: Desperately seeking Rickey

By Jay Jaffe
Baseball Prospectus

Friday, July 24, 2009

Rickey Henderson will be inducted into the Hall of Fame on Sunday, an honor that, while it comes at the first opportunity, feels long overdue for the player who holds the records for stolen bases and runs, is a member of the 3,000 Hit Club, and is widely acknowledged as the greatest leadoff hitter of all time. "If you could split him in two, you'd have two Hall of Famers," Bill James wrote about Henderson nearly a decade ago. The bearded bard of sabermetrics was onto something, and not only in ...

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