Benjamin Hoffman

My guy @ScottCacciola talked to John King, the man behind Minnesota's "All Hockey Hair Team" rankings, about the lettuce and flow at this year's tournament. https://t.co/ukBVhCMZfb

RT @caitleg: Nothing more romantic than spelling out 32 to comply with AP Style

Warriors getting Jimmy Butler would serve two purposes 1. Playoff Jimmy is super engaged and in the most ideal scenario helps Steph get another ring 2. His inevitable meltdown ends up making the KD divorce seem super friendly and we can retcon those into happier memories

RT @ScottStrazzante: On a whim, I sent former Oakland Coliseum vendor and Academy Award winning actor Tom Hanks a couple of prints and a re…

Jim Plunkett every time someone says Eli is an obvious HOFer because he won two Super Bowls https://t.co/qbIGSuaNnS

Last year the top NBA game on Christmas had 5 million viewers and the worst NFL one had 27 million but OK https://t.co/GRW2D1xat3

On what would have been Rickey’s 66th birthday, it’s worth remembering that the record he was arguably most proud of was career runs scored. There are a lot of ways to evaluate players but the actual game is decided by scoring runs. No one scored more runs than Rickey. https://t.co/um7YmQuyUu

No one in baseball history understood their assignment more than Rickey Henderson. Get on base. Find a way to score. If no one is on base yet, feel free to drive yourself in.

National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ⚾ @baseballhall

The Man of Steal… and so much more. 1,406 stolen bases — 1st all-time 2,129 unintentional walks — 1st all-time 2,295 runs scored — 1st all-time 81 leadoff home runs — 1st all-time https://t.co/AIoB0QSCai

My favorite comment on steroids was Buck O’Neil saying the only reason they didn’t take them was they didn’t exist. My second favorite was Rickey: “They kept that [stuff] a secret from me. I wish they had told me. My God, could you imagine Rickey on ’roids? Oh, baby, look out!”

RT @JoseCanseco: I’m heartbroken and devastated. Rickey Henderson was an incredibly talented player but an even better human. I’ll never…

RT @Sid_Seixeiro: 1993 World Series. Bottom of the 9th inning. The late Rickey Henderson’s leading off and calls for time on the first pitc…

Still in its original packaging from 1991. https://t.co/t0QMv9L4EP

3,055 hits as a left-handed guy who batted right-handed because no one told him he was doing it wrong as a kid. I wonder how many singles he cost himself.

Benjamin Hoffman @BenHoffmanNYT

Before the last game at the Coliseum, I was lucky enough to talk to Rickey for a few minutes in the tunnel. I told him how my love of baseball started with him and that he and the Coliseum would always be baseball at its best for me. Rickey, as Wiley used to say, was a run. https://t.co/ebynBoAzYJ

If you didn’t see Rickey in his prime I can assure you he was better than you can imagine. If a rookie this year stole 50 bases, and then averaged 50 steals a year for *27* more seasons after that, they’d still be six steals shy of Rick’s record.

No greater combination of writer and subject has ever existed than Ralph Wiley covering Rickey Henderson https://t.co/htNoOw0q1C