Henderson Looks Back on His (Disappointing) Days as a Yankee

From Bill Madden : Proud and joyful as he was about playing for 25 years and establishing career records for runs scored and stolen bases, Rickey Henderson admitted regretting that his Yankee career wasn't longer. His manager with the A's and Yankees , and surrogate father figure, Billy Martin , had told Henderson that he was destined to be a Yankee and that once he was, he would surely earn himself a place in Monument Park. "Billy Martin brought me to the Yankees - he always said I should've been a Yankee star - and I do have regret that when I was there we had a great team that somehow never could get by Toronto ," Henderson said. "For me, I was never able to overcome everything about that hamstring injury." Ah, yes, the famous Henderson "hammy" that dominated the New York baseball news that summer of 1987. By then, Lou Piniella was the Yankee manager - Martin had been fired by George Steinbrenner two years earlier, for the third time - and a season that had started out with much ... (link)