{"id":13559,"date":"2024-12-28T13:25:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T20:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13559"},"modified":"2025-01-06T13:27:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T20:27:27","slug":"rickey-henderson-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/12\/28\/rickey-henderson-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Rickey Henderson Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearmarkets.com\/articles\/2024\/12\/28\/the_late_rickey_henderson_is_an_exciting_look_into_the_future_1081059.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Real Clear Markets<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Late Rickey Henderson Is An Exciting Look Into the Future<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearmarkets.com\/articles\/2024\/12\/28\/the_late_rickey_henderson_is_an_exciting_look_into_the_future_1081059.html#comments-container\"><\/a>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearmarkets.com\/authors\/john_tamny\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John Tamny<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rickey Henderson Highlights\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MMMfx9hBJxM?start=5&#038;feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt 5-foot-10, Henderson was smaller than many big leaguers, but he overcame his size with a combination of horse power, a savant-like ability to exploit deficiencies in pitchers, and an extreme bravado that many players viewed as cockiness.\u201d That\u2019s how Michael Rosenwald described the recently passed Rickey Henderson in an obituary that&nbsp;<em>Forbes<\/em>&nbsp;publisher Rich Karlgaard correctly described as a \u201cmasterpiece.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To think about Rosenwald writing Henderson\u2019s obituary was to imagine that he had as much fun writing about Henderson as Henderson had playing baseball. Same with George Will in his own column memorializing Henderson. Henderson loved baseball, and those who love baseball are returning his affection to him. This is a big deal not just because Henderson was so special, but because understanding a little about Henderson is a way of understanding a future in which many more people will work with joy similar to Henderson&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What was most appealing about how Rosenwald described Henderson was in his focus on the player&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>mind<\/em>. He had \u201ca savant-like ability to exploit deficiencies in pitchers,\u201d while Will\u2019s column was titled \u201cMan of Steal, mind of titanium.\u201d Will wrote that \u201cThe cerebral Tony La Russa, who won more games than any manager not named Connie Mack, and who managed Rickey and against him, remembers him even more for \u2018his baseball IQ\u2019 than for his legs.\u201d Yes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearmarkets.com\/articles\/2024\/12\/28\/the_late_rickey_henderson_is_an_exciting_look_into_the_future_1081059.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at RCM<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Real Clear Markets The Late Rickey Henderson Is An Exciting Look Into the Future By\u00a0John Tamny \u201cAt 5-foot-10, Henderson was smaller than many big leaguers, but he overcame his size with a combination of horse power, a savant-like ability to exploit deficiencies in pitchers, and an extreme bravado that many players viewed as cockiness.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}