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RICKEY HENDERSON WAS a three-sport star at Oakland Technical High School, a great athlete, unflinching competitor, and excellent, if raw, baseball player whose best physical attribute was his outstanding speed. That was enough to catch the eye of J.J. Guinn, a Berkeley, Calif. police officer and part-time Oakland Athletics scout who signed the 17-year-old Henderson.
"Rickey said 'I want to be the greatest base stealer of all time'," Guinn recalled approvingly. Henderson went on to fulfill his audacious ambition, stealing 1,406 bases in a Hall of Fame career that mostly unfolded in an era when teams prized players' ability to run.