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Rickey Henderson, who electrified fans with his historic and unparalleled base-stealing ability and scored more runs than any player in baseball history, passed away, according to multiple reports late Friday and confirmed Saturday by Interstate 70 Sports Media.

He stole 1,406 bases in his career, Henderson played in Oakland, New York, Toronto, San Diego, Anaheim, Seattle, Boston and Los Angeles along the way.

Born in Chicago and raised in Oakland, Henderson played 14 of his 25 major league seasons for his hometown Athletics. By the time he played his final game with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2003, he was also baseball’s all-time leader in runs scored with 2,295. In 2017, the A’s named the Oakland Coliseum field after Henderson.

Over the course of his quarter-century career, which spanned from 1979 to 2003, Henderson also compiled 3,055 hits, 297 home runs and 1,115 RBI. Henderson was a 10-time All-Star, and won the league MVP in 1990 with the Oakland Athletics, when he hit .325 with 28 home runs, 61 RBI and 65 stolen bases. He also boasted a 1.016 OPS (on-base plus slugging) that season and a .439 OBP. He won two World Series titles in his Hall of Fame career, one with the Athletics in 1989 and another with the Toronto Blue Jays in ’93.

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