Baseball Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson dead at just 65 years old

[pwaldo]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/ml...henderson.html

Baseball fans and stars poured on the tributes for Rickey Henderson after the legendary player's death was reported on Saturday.

Henderson, who was widely considered one of the greatest leadoff hitters and base stealers in history, passed away at the age of 65.

According to TMZ Sports, the two-time World Series champion died in the Oakland area and had been receiving treatment for a battle with pneumonia.

After the news broke, tributes from around Major League Baseball flooded X as stars mourned his passing.

'Sad day for our Hall of Fame family with the passing of Rickey Henderson one of the greatest to ever play the game you’ll be dearly missed Brother RIP Rickey,' wrote Hall of Fame third baseman Wade Boggs.

'Super Sky Point to Rickey Henderson, the greatest leadoff man and base stealer to ever set foot on a baseball diamond. I’m stunned. Some guys seem larger than mortality. Rickey was one of them,' one user captioned a photo of Henderson holding a stolen base.

[ethunder]

So sad to hear this one!

[pwaldo]

So sad to hear this one!

Yeah it was shocking too. 65 is way too young

[spuds1961]

I will say for someone as iconic as Rickey Henderson was his passing was pretty much silent.

[pwaldo]

I will say for someone as iconic as Rickey Henderson was his passing was pretty much silent.

I thought the same about Willie Mays. He was much bigger than Rickey and it really wasn't that big of a deal. But Jim Brown and a couple of the other NBA legends like Jerry West passed away and there wasn't much reaction. Henderson should have been a bigger deal just because of how shocking it was. Even Pete Rose's death wasn't in the news for long.

[spuds1961]

I thought the same about Willie Mays. He was much bigger than Rickey and it really wasn't that big of a deal. But Jim Brown and a couple of the other NBA legends like Jerry West passed away and there wasn't much reaction. Henderson should have been a bigger deal just because of how shocking it was. Even Pete Rose's death wasn't in the news for long.

I guess it’s just a different time and people are just a little colder.

[pwaldo]

I guess it’s just a different time and people are just a little colder.

It is a different time but I think people have just been desensitized to people dying lately. For the past couple of years they see their friends, families, and neighbors dropping like flies or getting sick/injured that they don't care when celebrities or famous people die anymore. And I don't blame them.

[spuds1961]

It is a different time but I think people have just been desensitized to people dying lately. For the past couple of years they see their friends, families, and neighbors dropping like flies or getting sick/injured that they don't care when celebrities or famous people die anymore. And I don't blame them.

Very true