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If you could name one player in the history of baseball who was the Platonic ideal of a leadoff hitter, who would you name?
Rickey.
Even today, 21 years after Rickey Henderson's last big league appearance and as the news of his death just four days before his 66th birthday reached us, that first name is likely the immediate response to the question. That's your answer whether you're a Gen Xer who was a child when Henderson broke in with the Oakland Athletics, or a Gen Zer who was a child when he played his last game for the Los Angeles Dodgers 25 years later.