![]() ![]() Like so many elite athletes, he excelled at other sports and initially wanted to play for the Oakland Raiders.Īt Oakland Tech High School, Henderson also ran track for a bit, played football, basketball and baseball. Henderson came of age during the tumultuous 1960s and 1970s and found his way in sports. And they understood why, Hutton was just 18 – the same age Rickey and his group were now – when he was killed by police two days after Martin Luther King, Jr. The kids saw the (Black) Panthers, dressed like superhero-revolutionaries, who were armed to protect them, and saw what the FBI did to them, from little Bobby Hutton to Fred Hampton. “That attitude seemed to permeate the city. “Almost as a collective, residents of Black Oakland had arrived in town seeking better and by disposition were ready to demand their rights without asking for permission,” Bryant writes. ![]() At the 1984 All-Star Game with Eddie Murray (left) and Chili Davis (right), Henderson was now a perennial All-Star - but fumed about not being paid as much as the game’s home-run hitters. ![]()
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