I was in the store doing my usual last-minute Christmas shopping – thank goodness for gift cards – when my cell phone rang.

(AP) — Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson ... in Chicago in the back of his parents' Chevy, Henderson grew up in Oakland and developed into a star athlete. He played baseball, basketball and ...

Kamala Harris loses, a baseball icon dies, new mayors for Oakland and San Francisco, and scandal rocks a Dublin prison ...

Part of what makes baseball the best are the feats and amazing stats accruing left and right, every single day. We chronicle ...

Like you, I seldom slow down enough to reflect on the past, at least not in a deep way. But every now and then the past finds ...

Former forward Matt Barnes is an NBA player who knows just how good Henderson was back in his playing days. It takes a lot in ...

Rickey Henderson loved baseball. I mean, he loved baseball. He loved baseball so much that I used to imagine him missing his Hall of Fame induction ceremony because he had a game. Rickey played until ...

A handful of Athletics fans wait outside the stadium for the gates to open, but this is a different demographic than the ...

SAN DIEGO — Rickey ... stick with baseball, a sport that Tony Gwynn’s mother championed when Gwynn was a basketball standout, did Henderson forgo a football career as a running back.

Sure, Rickey Henderson ... he was best at football, then baseball, then basketball. He had a lot to learn because his first choice was to be a great running back." Henderson used to say that ...

Rickey Henderson defined a generation of baseball that's played much differently than today. Part of his legacy is how he defined the 1980s as a baseball player. 1990; Unknown location, USA; FILE ...

The night before the final day of Rickey Henderson’s professional ... Still, Smythe, a baseball card collector, was nervous to approach Henderson about signing one with his likeness.