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wordygurdy	Post subject: Rickey on Rickey Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 4:34 pm
Joined: Sat Nov 01, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 741 Location: The Empire State	And now, to bring a smile to your frostbitten (if you live on the East Coast) face, here's something that will probably make you smile, from a Sept. 12, 2005, profile in the New Yorker by David Grann: Once, when he couldn't find his limousine upon leaving a ballpark, he was heard saying, "Rickey don't like it when Rickey can't find Rickey's limo." ******* What's the record for referring to yourself in the third person in one sentence? That's got to be a contender, if not the winner. The piece also notes that statman Bill James once wrote, "Without exaggerating one inch, you could find fifty Hall of Famers who, all taken together, don't own as many records" as Henderson. Indeed, as Henderson says, "I'm a walking record."
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Wabberjocky	Post subject: Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 6:16 pm
Joined: Mon Feb 07, 2005 6:47 pm Posts: 1734 Location: Washington	Then again, he's one of the greatest players in baseball history, and as such more than entitled to his elephantine ego.
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Bumfketeer	Post subject: Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:39 am
Joined: Fri Nov 15, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 3557 Location: Cusp of retirement, grave or both	With an ego like that, he should work at a newspaper.
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Wabberjocky	Post subject: Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 10:25 pm
Joined: Mon Feb 07, 2005 6:47 pm Posts: 1734 Location: Washington	I'm looking forward to the book "Rickey And Rickey On Rickey" ... Rickey Henderson and his third-person alter ego offer critical perspective on the enduring legacy of Branch Rickey.
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wordygurdy	Post subject: Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 12:41 am
Joined: Sat Nov 01, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 741 Location: The Empire State	Wabberjocky wrote: I'm looking forward to the book "Rickey And Rickey On Rickey" ... Rickey Henderson and his third-person alter ego offer critical perspective on the enduring legacy of Branch Rickey. And when you approached Rickey for an interview for said tome, you would be lucky if he didn't greet you the way he greeted the New York media on his first day of spring training as a Yankee in 1985: "Don't need no press now, man."
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