


But perhaps even more than his prowess on the field, Rickey Henderson's is a story of Oakland, California, the town that gave rise to so many legendary athletes like him. "If you cut Rickey Henderson in half, you'd have two Hall of Famers," the baseball historian Bill James once said. He holds the record for the most stolen bases in a single game, and he's scored more runs than any player ever. The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron was published in 2010, which also won the CASEY Award and was a New York Times Notable Book of 2010.īryant appeared in The Tenth Inning, Ken Burns's extension of his 1994 documentary Baseball.īryant was arrested in 2011 for allegedly assaulting his wife in front of their then 6-year-old son.About the Book "Few names in the history of baseball evoke the excellence and dynamism that Rickey Henderson's does. Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball, which was New York Times Notable Book of 2005. In 2002, Bryant published his first book, Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston, which won the CASEY Award for the best baseball book of 2002 and was a finalist for the Society for American Baseball Research's Seymour Medal. Bryant left the Herald for the Washington Post, where he covered the Washington Redskins from 2005 to 2007. He then reported for the Bergen Record from 2001 to 2002, covering the New York Yankees, before joining the Boston Herald as a columnist from 2002 to 2005. In San Jose, Bryant covered the telecommunications industry before returning to sports to cover the Oakland Athletics. He is a frequent panelist on The Sports Reporters and since 2006 has been the sports correspondent for Weekend Edition with Scott Simon on National Public Radio.Ī native of Boston, Bryant began his career in 1991 with the Oakland Tribune covering sports and technology, before moving to the San Jose Mercury News from 1995 to 2001. He writes weekly columns for and ESPN The Magazine, ESPN, and appears regularly on ESPN Radio. Howard "Howie" Bryant (born November 25, 1968) is a sports journalist, and radio and television personality.

Sports journalist, author, television personality
