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  1. Throughout his career, Rickey
  2. Henderson has done a lot more than
  3. just steal bases. He holds the career
  4. record for most home runs leading off a
  5. ball game (66, through the 1994 sea-
  6. son). He has led the American League
  7. five times in runs scored. In 1985, even
  8. after missing the first 10 games of the
  9. season with a sprained ankle, he
  10. scored 146 runs, the most in baseball
  11. since Ted Williams scored 150 in 1949.
  12. Rickey is considered the greatest
  13. leadoff hitter in baseball history.