Rickey - Howard Bryant

Rickey

By Howard Bryant

  • Release Date: 2022-06-07
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
4.5 Score: 4.5 (From 41 Ratings)

Book Synopsis

“Seldom does a sports biography—especially a page-turner—so comprehensively explain the forces that made an icon the way they are.” – Sports Illustrated

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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Latest Impressions

  • I never knew Ricky was so important

    5
    By international Sean
    Howard Bryant is able to show Ricky for whom he is. A complex figure that had a career in baseball as good as (or better) than those that are put on Mount Rushmore of baseball. I now know how important Ricky was to baseball.
  • Joyless

    1
    By Hendershot72
    This wasn’t the Henderson biography that I’ve been waiting for. Overwrought, tiresome and unenjoyable.
  • Rickey

    4
    By Bethany Panda
    Probably my favorite player. Liked the history background of Oakland and its athletes; bummed about the Olerud story.