Rickey Henderson, the greatest base stealer in Major League Baseball history and one of the game’s most enduring players, has died, Major League Baseball confirmed Saturday. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred called Henderson the “gold standard of base stealing and leadoff hitting” in a statement Saturday that expressed the league’s condolences Saturday. In 2001 while playing for San Diego — one of the nine teams he played over a 25-year career — Henderson passed Babe Ruth as MLB’s all-time walks leader. A field near his high school, Oakland Tech, still bears Henderson’s name. “There was only one Rickey Henderson in baseball,” George Steinbrenner, the former Yankees owner, once said, according to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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