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From the author of The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron comes the definitive biography of Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson, baseball's epic leadoff hitter and base-stealer who also stole America's heart over nearly five electric decades in the game. Few names in the history of baseball evoke the excellence and dynamism that Rickey Henderson's does. He holds the record for the most stolen bases in a single game, and he's scored more runs than any player ever. "If you cut Rickey Henderson in half, you'd have two Hall of Famers," the baseball historian Bill James once said. But perhaps even more than his prowess on the field, Rickey Henderson's is a story of Oakland, California, the town that gave rise to so many legendary athletes like him. And it's a story of a sea change in sports, when athletes gained celebrity status and Black players finally earned equitable salaries. Henderson embraced this shift with his trademark style, playing for nine different teams throughout his decades-long career and sculpting a brash, larger-than-life persona that stole the nation's heart. Now, in the hands of critically acclaimed sportswriter and culture critic Howard Bryant, one of baseball's greatest and most original stars finally gets his due.
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"Tracing Henderson's road to baseball's Hall of Fame, Bryant skillfully weaves in detailed analyses of the athlete's game ..."
"Henderson ultimately had the last laugh: Today he's seen as an all-time great."
"A readable, appropriately fast-moving portrait of a baseball giant."
"What Howard Bryant is doing here in his biography of Rickey Henderson is to assert the primacy of the box score over the sportswriter's craft."
"Bryant brings a historian's perspective to the life of Rickey Henderson, with great success."
"This is a baseball book, a chronicle of Rickey's excellent work between the white lines in the biggest games in the biggest stadiums in America."
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