Rickey Henderson played 25 seasons (1979–2003) for ATH, NYY, TOR and 6 other clubs. Career regular-season line: 3,055 hits, 297 home runs and a .279 average. Mountain Arc career, peaking in 1990. Led the league in a statistical category 11 times. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2009. Honors: 10× All-Star Selections and 3× Silver Sluggers.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
Career boards only, within MLB
On the MLB Career Dominance board — top-25 in more than one all-time category at once.
Cross-sport prominence: 99.9th percentile among MLB careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
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MLB Advanced — ERA+ & OPS+ LeadersMLB Age Milestones — Youngest to 1,000 Hits, 100 HR, 100 Wins and 1,000 K
Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.
Bio, rosters, and year-by-year/career stat splits come directly from MLB's own official public StatsAPI.
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Rate Rickey Henderson — All-Time
24 seasons · peak 20.3 in 1990 · league-best season: 1990
VAL (Value Above League) measures each MLB season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
92.0 career wins over 24 seasons · 1 win = 2.61 VAL
Best season · 1990 · +7.8 wins
Latest season · 2002 · +0.5 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a MLB player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
Career milestones Rickey Henderson reached that no other MLB player has — each claim is literally true and checkable.
How often Rickey Henderson led or placed top-ten on a MLB season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
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11
league-leading seasons · 29 top-ten finishes
Career arc
Mountain Arc
The classic build → peak → decline arc — rose to a dominant peak, then faded. Peak 1990, 24 rated seasons.
Season boards
29
top-ten finishes across the MLB season boards
The season chip above measures Rickey Henderson's single best year. This measures the whole career: every rated season's standing against its own era's peers, summed. A season at the era median adds nothing and a below-median season subtracts — so this number is time spent above your era, not time served.
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Wore 9 distinct franchise crests across 25 seasons (1979–2003) — a true nomad. The crest trail: