Rickey Henderson loved baseball ... adjusting his batting gloves and straightening his sleeves, then got in a crouched stance that gave him a pint-sized strike zone, infuriated pitchers.

Cameron once asked him how he could hit so well from that stance. "That's how Rickey see the game ... Ibanez often watched Henderson in batting practice, working through his swing among teammates ...

No matter how hotly Mets general manager Steve Phillips denies his plan to release Rickey Henderson, it's clear the left fielder used up the reservoir of goodwill he created last year by hitting ...

He never led the league in a Triple Crown category — batting average ... if you are irritated by that estimation, then Rickey Henderson, who died at 65 on Friday, would probably be happy.

While there was a Henderson in the lineup that day, it wasn't Rickey, but instead centerfielder Dave Henderson batting second for the Athletics. Rickey would be back in Oakland after being re ...

How impressive is his 82.6 percent success rate over that span? Consider that Rickey Henderson, who swiped a major league-record 1,406 bases, retired with a success rate of 80.6 percent.