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Here's a question for everyone. With Rickey Henderson's 81 leadoff the game homeruns (which is 28 more than 2nd place Alfonso Soriano)...hold on...have you guys looked at Rickey's numbers? Freaking unbelieveable. I love Rickey. Definately my favorite player ever. I used to stand like this guy in Little League as if I was actually going to steal a base. Then I'd go back to the base because you can't lead in Little League. But when I first started following Rickey and collecting his baseball cards that was when I realized I loved baseball, and black people. Ok, mostly baseball.
So check this out. He's second in total walks all time. Who is #1? Bonds. Why? Because he was juicing all those years and everyone intentionally walked him. So I think that is a record that was destroyed because of steroids. Rickey got screwed out of that #1 placement. Really unfortunate. Bonds would NOT have had 200 plus walks several years in a row if he wasn't hitting 70 homeruns. He wouldn't have hit 70 homeruns if he wasn't on steroids. Therefore Rickey wins again.
My real question is, and I can't find this stat yet on the internet, is what do you think the batting average is of the guy that followed Rickey after his leadoff the game homeruns was? Conversely, what was the success rate of the pitcher following Rickey's 81 homeruns? It would be interesting to know if that lead off the game homerun led to a walk the next guy up or another hit because he may have been rattled or if the pitcher beared down and k'd the #2 guy? It could be researched but would take some time digging through box scores. Which would actually be a lot of fun! Place your bets now, I'm going to figure it out!
