Editing Rickey Henderson (section)

==Legacy==
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|quote=It took a long time, huh [Pause for cheers] First of all, I would like to thank God for giving me the opportunity. I want to thank the Haas family, the Oakland organization, the city of Oakland, and all you beautiful fans for supporting me. [Pause for cheers] Most of all, I'd like to thank my mom, my friends, and loved ones for their support. I want to give my appreciation to [[Tom Trebelhorn]] and the late [[Billy Martin]]. Billy Martin was a great manager. He was a great friend to me. I love you, Billy. I wish you were here. [Pause for cheers] Lou Brock was the symbol of great base stealing. But today, I'm the greatest of all time. Thank you.
|source= —Rickey Henderson's full speech after breaking Lou Brock's record.<ref>Henderson et al., ''Off Base: Confessions of a Thief'', pp. 153–154</ref>}}

On May 1, 1991, Henderson stole his 939th base to pass [[Lou Brock]] and became the sport's all-time stolen base leader.<ref name="number939"/> Henderson's speech after breaking Brock's record was similar to the standard victory or award speech. He thanked God and his mother, as well as the people that helped him in baseball. Because his idol was [[Muhammad Ali]], Henderson decided to use the words "greatest of all time."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?mid=200808043235127|title=MLB.com Rickey's 939|publisher=Mlb.mlb.com|date=August 4, 2008|access-date=May 30, 2009}}</ref> These words have since been taken by many to support the notion that Henderson is selfish and arrogant,<ref>{{cite news|title=2-Minute Bio, Rickey Henderson|last=Cruz|first=Gilbert|work=TIME Magazine|date=January 13, 2009|url=http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1871278,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114235902/http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1871278,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 14, 2009|access-date=July 7, 2010}}</ref> although years later, Henderson revealed that he had gone over his planned remarks ahead of time with Brock, and the Cardinals Hall of Famer "had no problem with it. In fact, he helped me write what I was going to say that day."<ref name=Manoloff>{{cite news|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCI/is_2_62/ai_95915327|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120709173321/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCI/is_2_62/ai_95915327|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 9, 2012|access-date=February 17, 2008|title=One on one with Rickey Henderson: future Hall of Famer – Interview|work= Baseball Digest|first=Dennis|last=Manoloff|year=2003}}</ref> On the day of the speech, Brock later told reporters amiably, "He spoke from his heart." Brock and Henderson had had a friendly relationship ever since their first meeting in 1981. Brock pronounced the young speedster as the heir to his record, saying, "How are we gonna break it?"<ref name="Rickey Henderson 2009"/>

Henderson has mixed feelings about his comments:

{{Blockquote|As soon as I said it, it ruined everything. Everybody thought it was the worst thing you could ever say. Those words haunt me to this day, and will continue to haunt me. They overshadow what I've accomplished in this game.<ref name=Manoloff/>}}

At the end of his July 2009 Hall of Fame induction, Henderson alluded to his earlier speech, saying:

{{Blockquote|In closing, I would like to say my favorite hero was Muhammad Ali. He said at one time, quote, "I am the greatest," end of quote. That is something I always wanted to be. And now that the Association has voted me into the Baseball Hall of Fame, my journey as a player is complete. I am now in the class of the greatest players of all time. And at this moment, I am ... ''[pause]'' ... very, very humble. Thank you.}}

Asked if he believes the passage of time will improve his reputation, Henderson said:

{{Blockquote|If you talk about baseball, you can't eliminate me, because I'm all over baseball... It's the truth. Telling the truth isn't being cocky. What do you want me to say, that I didn't put up the numbers? That my teams didn't win a lot of games? People don't want me to say anything about what I've done. Then why don't you say it? Because if I don't say it and you don't say it, nobody says it.<ref name=Manoloff />}}

Henderson had 468 more stolen bases in his career than Brock, one short of 50% more than the game's second-most prolific basestealer.<ref>{{cite web|title=Career Leaders & Records for Stolen Bases|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/SB_career.shtml|access-date=August 28, 2008|work=[[Baseball Reference]]}}</ref> In 1993, Henderson stole his 1,066th base, surpassing the world record established ten years earlier by [[Yutaka Fukumoto]] for the [[Hankyu Braves]] in Japan's [[Pacific League]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/oak/history/timeline5.jsp |title=History: Athletics Timeline |access-date=March 9, 2008 |work=MLB.com |archive-date=March 24, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080324144123/http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/oak/history/timeline5.jsp |url-status=dead }}</ref> In his prime, Henderson had a virtual monopoly on the stolen base title in the American League. Between 1980 and 1991, he led the league in steals every season except 1987,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/SB_leagues.shtml|title=Year-by-Year League Leaders for Stolen Bases|access-date=June 25, 2007|work=[[Baseball Reference]]}}</ref> when he missed part of the season due to a nagging [[hamstring]] injury,<ref>{{cite news|last=Martinez|first=Michael|title=Henderson Placed on Disabled List|access-date=June 5, 2007|date=August 2, 1987|newspaper=New York Times|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE1D7173CF931A3575BC0A961948260}}</ref> allowing Mariners second baseman [[Harold Reynolds]] to win the title. Henderson had one more league-leading season after that stretch, when his 66 steals in 1998 made him the oldest steals leader in baseball history. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Henderson also owns the record for times caught stealing (335). Due to incomplete historical recordkeeping for that statistic, though, it is unknown whether he is the actual career leader.<ref name="Cs1920">[http://www.baseball-statistics.com/Leaders/glossary.htm Glossary of terms; Baseball Statistics.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416040130/http://www.baseball-statistics.com/Leaders/glossary.htm |date=April 16, 2021 }} – Caught stealing totals went largely unrecorded until 1920; it is therefore statistically likely that [[Eddie Collins]] (7th in steals) was thrown out more times than Henderson.</ref>  However, Henderson's overall 81% success rate on the basepaths is among the highest percentages in history.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/stolen_base_perc_career.shtml|access-date=December 8, 2020|work=[[Baseball Reference]]|title=Career Leaders & Records for SB %}}</ref> ([[Carlos Beltran]] ranks first among players with at least 300 career attempts, at just over 86%.)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-almanac.com/recbooks/rb_stba.shtml|access-date=December 8, 2020|work=Baseball Almanac|title=MLB Stolen Bases Records}}</ref>

On July 29, 1989, Henderson stole five bases against the Mariners' left-handed [[Randy Johnson (pitcher)|Randy Johnson]], his career high, and one shy of the single-game major league record. Unusually, Henderson was hitless in the game (he had four walks). Henderson had 18 four-steal games during his career. In August 1983, in a three-game series against the Brewers and a 2-game series versus the Yankees, Henderson had 13 stolen bases in five games. [[Baltimore Orioles]] third baseman [[Floyd Rayford]] described the confusion he felt during a particular game, when Henderson was leading off first base and signaling him with two fingers. Henderson quickly stole second base, then third, and Rayford understood the gesture.<ref name="sportsillustrated1" />

Longtime scout [[Charlie Metro]] remembered the havoc caused by Henderson: '"I did a lot of study and I found that it's impossible to throw Rickey Henderson out. I started using stopwatches and everything. I found it was impossible to throw some other guys out also. They can go from first to second in 2.9 seconds; and no pitcher catcher combination in baseball could throw from here to there to tag second in 2.9 seconds, it was always 3, 3.1, 3.2. So actually, the runner that can make the continuous, regular move like Rickey's can't be thrown out, and he's proven it."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/quotes/quohenr.shtml|title=Rickey Henderson Quotes|website=www.baseball-almanac.com}}</ref>

Sportswrite [[Joe Posnanski]] marveled that Henderson had 796 career walks when leading off an inning:

{{Blockquote|Think about this again. There would be nothing, absolutely nothing, a pitcher would want to avoid more than walking Rickey Henderson to lead off an inning. And yet he walked SEVEN HUNDRED NINETY SIX times to lead off an inning. He walked more times just leading off in an inning than Lou Brock, [[Roberto Clemente]], [[Luis Aparicio]], [[Ernie Banks]], [[Kirby Puckett]], [[Ryne Sandberg]] and more than 50 other Hall of Famers walked in their entire careers.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.si.com/more-sports/2008/12/11/rickey-henderson|title=Oh Rickey you're so fine|magazine=Sports Illustrated|date=December 11, 2008|access-date=July 7, 2010|last=Posnanski|first=Joe}}</ref>}}

Henderson was a headfirst slider. In September 2008, Henderson discussed his base-stealing technique at length with ''Sports Illustrated'':

<blockquote>I wanted to know how to dive into the base because I was getting [[bruise|strawberries]] on my knees and strawberries on my ass... I was thinking about head-first versus feet-first, and wondering which would save my body. With head-first I worried about pounding my shoulders and my hands, and with feet-first I would worry about my knees and my legs. I felt that running was more important to me, with my legs, so I started going head-first. I got my [low-to-the-ground] technique from airplanes... I was on a plane and asleep and the plane bounced and when we landed we bounced and it woke me up. Then the next flight I had the same pilot and the plane went down so smooth. So I asked the pilot why, and he said when you land a plane smooth, you get the plane elevated to the lowest position you can and then you smooth it in. Same with sliding... If you dive when you're running straight up then you have a long distance to get to the ground. But the closer you get to the ground the less time it will take... I was hitting the dirt so smooth, so fast, when I hit the dirt, there wasn't no hesitation. It was like a skid mark, like you throw a rock on the water and skid off it. So when I hit the ground, if you didn't have the tag down, I was by you. No matter if the ball beat me, I was by you. That was what made the close plays go my way, I think.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/baseball/mlb/09/10/ballard.hendersonrollins/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915044841/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/baseball/mlb/09/10/ballard.hendersonrollins/index.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 15, 2008|title=Chris Ballard: More from Rickey Henderson and Jimmy Rollins on the art of the steal|magazine=Sports Illustrated|access-date=February 15, 2009|last=Ballard|first=Chris|date=September 10, 2008}}</ref></blockquote>Padres closer [[Trevor Hoffman]] said, "I don't know how to put into words how fortunate I was to spend time around one of the icons of the game. I can't comprehend that yet. Years from now, though, I'll be able to say I played with Rickey Henderson, and I imagine it will be like saying I played with [[Babe Ruth]]."<ref name="sportsillustrated1" /> When Henderson was 44 years old and playing for the Newark Bears in 2003, Padres general manager [[Kevin Towers]] said, "I get e-mails daily from fans saying, 'Sign Rickey.'... I get more calls and e-mails about him than anybody... We've had some special players come through San Diego. But there's an aura about him nobody else has."<ref name="sportsillustrated1" />

[[Tony La Russa]], Henderson's manager in the late 1980s in Oakland, said, "He rises to the occasion—the big moment—better than anybody I've ever seen."<ref name="sportsillustrated1"/> Coach [[Rene Lachemann]] said, "If you're one run down, there's nobody you'd ever rather have up at the plate than Rickey." Teammate Mitchell Page said, "It wasn't until I saw Rickey that I understood what baseball was about. Rickey Henderson is a run, man. That's it. When you see Rickey Henderson, I don't care when, the score's already 1–0. If he's with you, that's great. If he's not, you won't like it."<ref name="wiley"/>

A's pitching coach [[Dave Duncan (baseball)|Dave Duncan]] said of Henderson, "You have to be careful because he can knock one out. But you don't want to be too careful because he's got a small strike zone and you can't afford to walk him. And that's only half the problem. When he gets on base he's more trouble still." Sportswriter [[Tom Verducci]] wrote, "Baseball is designed to be an egalitarian sort of game in which one player among the 18 is not supposed to dominate... Yet in the past quarter-century Henderson and [[Barry Bonds]] have come closest to dominating a baseball game the way [[Michael Jordan]] could a basketball game."<ref name="verducci"/>

In July 2007, ''[[New York Sun]]'' sportswriter Tim Marchman posited that Henderson's accomplishments were "not because of his body, but because of his brain". He praised his ability to detect if a pitcher was throwing to first or [[home plate]], and his discipline to coax walks as a means to get on base.<ref name="marchman"/> Added Marchman:

{{Blockquote|Maybe he'd get a bit more credit for all this if he were some boring drip like [[Cal Ripken Jr.]], blathering on endlessly about humility and apple pie and tradition and whatever else, but we're all better off with things the way they are... Everyone had their fun when he broke Lou Brock's stolen base record and proclaimed, 'I am the greatest', but he was, of course, just saying what was plainly true."<ref name="marchman">{{cite journal|title=Rickey Henderson A Steal for the Mets|first=Tim|last=Marchman|journal=The New York Sun|date=July 17, 2007}}</ref>}}

===Career milestones===
[[File:Rickey Henderson 2011 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|Henderson at the [[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum|Hall of Fame]] parade in 2011]]
{{As of|2024}}, Henderson ranks first all-time in runs scored (2,295) and stolen bases (1,406), fourth in career games played (3,081), 13th in at bats (10,961), and 26th in hits (3,055). He has the second-highest career [[power–speed number]], behind [[Barry Bonds]], at 490.4.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/power_speed_number_progress.shtml |title=Progressive Leaders & Records for Power-Speed # |website=[[Baseball Reference]] |access-date=January 24, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://research.sabr.org/brj/index.php/thunder-and-lightning |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130415210240/http://research.sabr.org/brj/index.php/thunder-and-lightning |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 15, 2013 |title=Thunder and Lightning |publisher=Research.sabr.org |first1=Michael |last1=Sciarretta |access-date=January 24, 2013 }}</ref> Henderson reached 20+ homers and 50+ steals in the same season a record four times.<ref>{{cite web|first=John|last=DiFonzo|title=César Cedeño|publisher=Society For American Baseball Research|url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/cesar-cedeno/|access-date=December 29, 2024}}</ref> His record for most career walks (2,190) has since been broken by Barry Bonds; Henderson is now second but continues to hold the record for most unintentional walks (2,129).<ref name="HOFPlaq"/> While his career batting average of .279 is considered somewhat modest for a leadoff hitter, his walks helped him post a stout .401 on-base percentage (OBP) for his career. He posted an OBP of at least .400 in 16 separate seasons, with a high mark of .439 in his 1990 MVP season. Henderson averaged 115 walks per 162 games over his career.<ref name="BaseballReferenceRickyHenderson" />

Henderson also holds the record for most home runs to lead off a game, with 81;<ref name=wancho/> [[George Springer]] is second with 60 going into the 2025 season.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.mlb.com/news/most-career-leadoff-home-runs-in-mlb-history | title=Most career leadoff home runs in MLB history | website=[[MLB.com]] }}</ref> During the 2003 season, Henderson surpassed Babe Ruth for the career record in secondary bases (total bases compiled from [[extra base hit]]s, walks, stolen bases, and times [[hit by pitch]]). In 1993, he led off both games of a doubleheader with homers. At the time of his last major league game, Henderson was still in the all-time top 100 home run hitters, with 297. [[Bill James]] wrote in 2000, "Without exaggerating one inch, you could find fifty Hall of Famers who, all taken together, don't own as many records, and as many ''important'' records, as Rickey Henderson."<ref>James, ''The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract'', 654</ref>

Henderson's record for the most postseason stolen bases was broken by [[Kenny Lofton]]'s 34th career steal during the [[2007 ALCS]];<ref>{{cite web|title=Kenny Lofton sets postseason record for stolen bases|publisher=ESPN|agency=Associated Press|url=https://www.espn.com/espn/wire?section=mlb&id=3066983|date=October 27, 2007|access-date=August 28, 2008}}</ref> Henderson is the only American League player to steal more than 100 bases in a single season (having accomplished the feat three times),<ref name=wancho/> and he is the all-time stolen base leader for the Oakland A's.<ref>{{cite web|title=Celebrating 40 Years of Oakland Athletics|work=MLB.com|url=http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/oak/fan_forum/anniversary.jsp|access-date=August 29, 2008|archive-date=September 22, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080922074605/http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/oak/fan_forum/anniversary.jsp|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1999, before breaking the career records for runs scored and walks, Henderson was ranked number 51 on ''[[The Sporting News]]''' list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players,<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990508010320/http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/100/index-51.html|title=Baseball's 100 Greatest Players|work=The Sporting News|archive-date=May 8, 1999 |date=May 8, 1999|url=http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/100/index-51.html}}</ref> and was a nominee for the [[Major League Baseball All-Century Team]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://static.espn.go.com/mlb/news/1999/1023/129008.html|title=All-Century Team final voting|work=[[ESPN.com]]|date=October 23, 1999|access-date=July 7, 2010}}</ref> In 2005, ''The Sporting News'' updated their 100 Greatest Players list, and Henderson had inched up to number 50.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://baseballevolution.com/top100s/sportingnews2005.html|title=Baseball Evolution – The 2005 Sporting News Top 100|first=Scott Asher|last=Keith|website=baseballevolution.com}}</ref> On January 12, 2009, Henderson was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year on the ballot, receiving 94.8% of the vote.<ref name=Manoloff/> This was the 13th highest percentage in major league history.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/hof.shtml|title=MLB Baseball Hall of Fame Inductees|work=[[Baseball Reference]]|access-date=July 7, 2010}}</ref>

Asked to choose the best player in history, Henderson declined, saying, "There are guys who have done different things very well, but I don't know of anyone who mastered everything." Offered the chance to assess his own placement among the game's greats, he said, "I haven't mastered the homers or RBI. The little things, I probably mastered." Of his various records and achievements, he values his career-runs-scored mark the most: "You have to score to win."<ref name=Manoloff/>

===Records===
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|+'''MLB Records'''
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!Accomplishment
!Record
!Refs
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! style="background:#dde;" colspan="3"|Career
|-
|[[List of Major League Baseball career stolen bases leaders|Most stolen bases]]
|1,406
|<ref name=hall/>
|-
|Most times caught stealing
|335
|<ref name="BBRef"/><ref name="Cs1920"/>
|-
|Most runs scored
|2,295
|<ref name=hall/>
|-
|Most games led off with a home run
|81
|<ref name=wancho/>
|-
|Most unintentional walks
| 2,129
|<ref name="HOFPlaq">{{cite web |title=Rickey Henderson's Hall of Fame Plaque |url=https://baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/henderson-rickey |website=Baseball Hall of Fame |access-date=December 22, 2024}}</ref>
|-
|Most consecutive seasons – 1 or more HR
| 25
| <ref>{{cite web |title=MOST SEASONS WITH 60, 50, 40, 30, 20 OR 10 HOME RUNS |url=https://www.baseball-almanac.com/recbooks/Most_Seasons_With_xx_Hrs.shtml |website=Baseball Almanac |access-date=December 22, 2024}}</ref>
|-
|Most seasons leading the league in stolen bases
|12
|<ref>{{cite web|title=Most Times Leading League Batting Statistics|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/leaders-most-times-bat.shtml|website=[[Baseball-Reference.com]]|publisher=[[Sports Reference LLC]]|access-date=April 24, 2017|language=en}}</ref>
|-
! style="background:#dde;" colspan="3"|Single–season
|-
|[[List of Major League Baseball annual stolen base leaders|Most stolen bases]]
|130 <small>(1982)</small>
|<ref name="BBRef"/>
|-
|Most times caught stealing
|42 <small>(1982)</small>
|<ref name="BBRef"/>
|-
|Most stolen bases in a single postseason series
|8 <small>([[1989 ALCS]])</small>
|<ref>{{cite web |title=CONGRATULATING RICKEY HENDERSON; Congressional Record Vol. 155, No. 89 |url=https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/volume-155/issue-89/senate-section/article/S6577-2 |publisher=111th Congress |access-date=December 22, 2024 |date=June 15, 2015}}</ref>
|-
|Most stolen bases in a single postseason
|11 <small>(1989)</small>
|<ref>{{cite web |title=All-time and Single-Season Postseason Batting Leaders |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/Playoffs_batting.shtml |website=[[Baseball Reference]] |publisher=Sports Reference |access-date=December 22, 2024}}</ref>
|}

===Awards and honors===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Award/Honor
!# of Times
!Dates
!Refs
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|American League [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star]]
| style="text-align:center;"|10
|1980, 1982–88, 1990–91
|<ref name="BBRef"/>
|-
|[[American League Championship Series MVP]]
| style="text-align:center;"|1
|1989
|<ref name="BBRef"/>
|-
|American League [[Gold Glove Award]] (OF)
| style="text-align:center;"|1
|1981 <small>(strike shortened)</small>
|<ref>{{cite web|title=Gold Glove winners|work=MLB.com|url=http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/awards/mlb_awards_content.jsp?content=gold_gloves_history|access-date=August 28, 2008}}</ref>
|-
|American League hits champion
| style="text-align:center;"|1
|1981
|<ref name="BBRef"/>
|-
|[[Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award|American League MVP]]
| style="text-align:center;"|1
|1990
|<ref>{{cite web|title=Most Valuable Player winners|work=MLB.com|url=http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/awards/mlb_awards_content.jsp?content=mvp_history|access-date=August 28, 2008}}</ref>
|-
|American League [[Silver Slugger Award]] (OF)
| style="text-align:center;"|3
|1981, 1985, 1990
|<ref>{{cite web|title=Silver Slugger winners|work=MLB.com|url=http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/awards/mlb_awards_content.jsp?content=silver_slugger_history|access-date=August 28, 2008|archive-date=November 9, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141109205428/http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/awards/mlb_awards_content.jsp?content=silver_slugger_history|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|[[List of Major League Baseball annual stolen base leaders#American League|American League stolen base champion]]
| style="text-align:center;"|12
|1980–86, 1988–91, 1998
|<ref name="BBRef"/>
|-
|American League walks leader
| style="text-align:center;"|4
| 1982–83, 1989, 1998
|<ref name="BBRef"/>
|-
|Major league on-base percentage leader
| style="text-align:center;"|1
|1990
|<ref name="BBRef"/>
|-
|Major league runs scored leader
| style="text-align:center;"|5
|1981, 1985–86, 1989–90
|<ref name="BBRef"/>
|-
|[[List of Major League Baseball annual stolen base leaders|Major league stolen base champion]]
| style="text-align:center;"|6
|1980, 1982–83, 1988–89, 1998
|<ref name="BBRef"/>
|-
|[[TSN Comeback Player of the Year Award]]
| style="text-align:center;"|1
|1999
|<ref name=pros>{{cite web|url=http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=2243|title=Prospectus Q&A: Rickey Henderson|last=Silver|first=Nate|author2=Carroll, Will |work=Baseball Prospectus|date=August 26, 2003|access-date=March 10, 2008}}</ref>
|-
|[[List of World Series champions|World Series champion]]
| style="text-align:center;"|2
|[[1989 World Series|1989]] (Oakland A's)<br />[[1993 World Series|1993]] (Toronto Blue Jays)
|<ref name="BBRef"/>
|}