I got a chance to connect with some of the guys I grew up with Sunday.
At the other end of the phone were Dave Stewart, Dennis Eckersley, Rickey Henderson, Mark McGwire, Sandy Alderson, Terry Steinbach and Tony La Russa.
This isn’t a case of dropping names here. These are some of the guys I talked to after the news came out that Dave Henderson, center fielder par excellence for the A’s from 1988-93 had died in Seattle at 57 of a massive heart attack.
These were men who had been Dave Henderson’s contemporaries with the great A’s teams of the late 1980s and early 1990s.