The Oakland A’s clubhouse was a rowdy, rollicking place during the 1981 season. Billy Martin ran the show, as only he could, and there was fervent national interest in a group of starting pitchers who ...

Baseball's stolen base king was born at high speed, on Christmas Day 1958, in the back of an Oldsmobile hurtling through a blizzard toward a Chicago-area hospital. The man who would go on to swipe a ...

Before he was a somebody, Rickey Henderson was already a constituency of one. Professional athletes are a different species, world-class talents whose sense of self and possibility do not often fit ...

Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson, an Oakland native and one of the greatest players in baseball’s history, died Friday at age 65. The longtime Oakland Athletics player is Major League Baseball’s ...

Rickey Henderson, the Hall of Famer who colorfully combined style, flash and an unrivaled brilliance on the basepaths to become one of the defining players of his generation, died on Friday, according ...

Widely considered the greatest leadoff man in MLB history, his first name became synonymous with the stolen base. Here are 10 ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson, the brash speedster who shattered stolen base records and redefined baseball's leadoff position, has died. He was 65. Henderson died on Friday.

Undisputed singular superlatives are rare in sports because debate is natural and constant turnover always delivers a counterpoint. The physical evolution of humanity declares that today’s greatest of ...