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Rickey Henderson, shown here attempting to steal a base in 1983, is the MLB career leader in stolen bases. This article lists records for stolen bases within Major League Baseball (MLB). For individual players, leaders in stolen bases for a career, single season, and single game are provided, along with leaders in stolen base percentage for a ...
Stolen bases were more common in baseball's dead-ball era, when teams relied more on stolen bases and hit and run plays than on home runs. [2] Rickey Henderson holds the MLB career stolen base record with 1,406. [3] He is the only MLB player to have reached the 1,000 stolen bases milestone in his career.
Max Carey led the National League in stolen bases ten times, the most times of any player. Maury Wills led the National League in stolen bases in six consecutive seasons. Vince Coleman is the only other player to do so. John Montgomery Ward was the first player to lead the National League in stolen bases for different teams.
Rickey Nelson Henley Henderson (born December 25, 1958), nicknamed Man of Steal, is an American former professional baseball left fielder who played 24 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for nine teams from 1979 to 2003, including four separate tenures with his original team, the Oakland Athletics.
In 1887, Hugh Nicol set a still-standing Major League record with 138 stolen bases, [4] many of which would not have counted under modern rules. [3] Modern steal rules were fully implemented in 1898. [5] Graph depicting the yearly number of home runs (blue line) and stolen bases (pink line) per MLB game.
In the 1967 World Series, Brock hit for a .414 average, scored 8 runs, and set a World Series record with seven stolen bases as the Cardinals defeated the Boston Red Sox in seven games. [ 20 ] The Cardinals won the National League pennant for a second consecutive year in 1968 as Brock once again led the league in stolen bases as well as in ...
The first player to steal a base in a World Series is called the "Taco Hero", [16] with that term first appearing during the 2016 promotion. [27]Mookie Betts is the only player to have been a Taco Hero more than once, having accomplished the feat in 2018 with the Boston Red Sox and in 2020 with the Los Angeles Dodgers. [28]
Maurice Morning Wills (October 2, 1932 – September 19, 2022) was an American professional baseball player and manager.He played in Major League Baseball as a shortstop from 1959 to 1972, most prominently as an integral member of the Los Angeles Dodgers teams that won three World Series titles between 1959 and 1965.