A truly singular player.

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Goddam. 2 of my top 5 favorites have croaked within 2 weeks.

65. Do we have a COD?

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"I honestly don't see a good bet on the board here."

Geez that stinks.

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Elections have consequences.

My favorite player of all time.

Damn.

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Shakes did it

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Is this Rickey being Rickey?

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2018
#ExtendLafleur
10 More Wins

Link, please.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Dang, definitely one of the all time greats.

In college I had a professor that was a huge baseball fan and he would get distracted at times in class and go on these long rants. One of his favorite was going on a rant about how Rickey was the best baseball player to ever live and he had all these stats and examples. He would get super worked up about it.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Weird...neither ESPN nor Wikipedia have it yet.

And Newsweek just reported "former MVP Anthony Rizzo" signed with the Yankees for $12.5m, when it was actually Goldschmidt.

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No one will ever come close to his stolen base record
All time leader in runs
All time leader in walks when he retired
3000 Hits

This guy should have gone in the Hall with 100% of the vote

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completely agree.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Oh no question about it. I think he's in the top 5.

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He was also known for taking the most pitches per AB, which later on became recognized as a great skill by the stat geeks.

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He died of pneumonia. Doesn't that usually kill older folks? 65 seems young for pneumonia

Easily one of my favorite baseball players.

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Often there is a more significant health issue which leads to pneumonia, and the pneumonia finishes you off.

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“How do you get to be president and you’re stupid?” Donald J Trump - 4/10/25
When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus. - Turkish Proverb

Read the Howard Bryant biography on Rickey within the last year. Was not enamored with the book.

Rickey was always in phenomenal shape. Still was up till the day he died. Can’t believe it was pneumonia if it really was.

With all the other odd and unique things about Rickey, people overlook he had great post season numbers.

it's not Rickey. it's Richard.

Richard Henderson.

where did u get this info? The family and media refused to report the cause of death.

Fuck off

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I remember after the A’s were humiliated by the Reds in a 4-0 sweep in 1990, Rickey claimed that “if we played the Reds 100 times, we’d win 70.”

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It's a great story, one of the best I ever heard, but Olerud had to open his big mouth and debunk it a few years ago. I'll try to find it. Hopefully it's been wiped from the internet as disinformation.

That story is as old as the hills. From his post, it seems like Antioch had never heard it before, which is mildly surprising.

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Elections have consequences.

Why would I do it? I owe the guy my life. Very sad to hear the news.

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There is a score interview from the golden era where they are interviewing Don King and local state senator Rickie Hendon somehow gets on the line for a three way interview. Don proceeds to praise him as if he were Ricky Henderson

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.