By Brian Joura
2000 TOPPS RICKEY HENDERSON
Baseball cards taught me that Hall of Famers Yogi Berra, Duke Snider and Warren Spahn played for the Mets. I have vivid memories of Hall of Famers Willie Mays, Mike Piazza and Tom Seaver playing for my favorite team. Yet, somehow, it’s not an immediate memory for me of Rickey Henderson as a Met, even though he played for the 1999 squad, one of my all-time favorite Mets teams.
It could be because he was so bad in the NLCS, after having a stellar NLDS. More likely, it’s because he crashed and burned the following year, earning his release after just 31 games. Perhaps the most likely reason of all is that the last card set put together by me in the season it happened was the 1998 Topps Finest one, a year before he joined the Mets. Henderson didn’t even have an entry in that 275-card set, perhaps because he was a free agent who didn’t sign for 1998 until January 22.
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