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Rickey Henderson Might Become Mets 1st Base Coach

McLovin posted 7/12/2007 from nytimes.com

The Mets, seeking to inject some life into a struggling offense, have fired their hitting coach, Rick Down, and have added Rickey Henderson to the coaching staff. Henderson will most likely replace Down, but according to a club official, the Mets were deliberating whether to make him the first-base coach and bump Howard Johnson to hitting coach. Henderson, baseball’s career leader in ...