“If I was playing today, I would get 162, right now, without a doubt,” he stated. “Because if they had had that rule, you can only throw over there twice, you know how many times they would be throwing over there twice and they’d be going, ‘Ah, (shoot), can y’all send him to third? Give him two bases and send him to third.’ That would be me.”
Henderson’s accomplishment that record-breaking day in 1991 was barely overshadowed that evening when Nolan Ryan threw his file seventh profession no-hitter. Henderson already had been Ryan’s 5,000th profession strikeout sufferer, which led him to say, “If you haven’t been struck out by Nolan Ryan, you’re nobody.”
That was clearly not the case for Henderson. He’s additionally the profession chief in runs scored with 2,295 and in leadoff residence runs with 81, ranks second to Barry Bonds with 2,190 walks and is fourth in video games performed (3,081) and plate appearances (13,346). He completed his profession with 3,055 hits over 25 seasons spent with Oakland, the New York Yankees, Toronto, San Diego, Anaheim, the New York Mets, Seattle, Boston and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
He fittingly completed his profession with the Dodgers at age 44 in 2003 by scoring a run in his last play on a significant league discipline.