Late in Rickey Henderson's career, his Seattle Mariners teammate Mike Cameron would reach for the bus microphone as the team lumbered from airports to hotels, and he read aloud some of the recent achievements of his fellow players from the media relations notes.
Maybe someone was about to hit a round number -- 400 career RBIs, 500 strikeouts. In comparison, though, Henderson's numbers were otherworldly, Cameron recalled. It was if Henderson were an alien designed to play the earthly game called baseball, and to look great doing it.
During Henderson's 25-year career, he played 3,141 games with 671 teammates, for 15 managers, against 3,099 opponents.