Roger Clemens’ big announcement this week has Rickey Henderson hoping some club might give him one more chance to make a major league comeback.Otherwise, he will call it a career — for good this time.
“Seeing Roger come back, all the seed that it plants is ask me to come back one time,” Henderson said Tuesday in the Mets clubhouse before New York played the San Francisco Giants.
“I’m going to look at it at the end of the year. I might come out with some crazy stuff, a press conference telling every club, ‘Put me on the field with your best player and see if I come out of it.’ If I can’t do it, I’ll call it quits at the end,” he said.“I see Roger can come back and play. I can come back and play,” the 48-year-old Henderson said. “They say I’ve done too much. What’d he accomplish? ... The players they put on the field nowadays, they couldn’t make it in my day. They’d get sent back to Triple-A.”
But if he landed a deal like Clemens’ one-year contract for $28,000,022, Henderson said he could get himself back in baseball shape in a hurry. By June, no less.Henderson also is a realist.
“I’m through, really. I’m probably through with it now,” he said. “It’s just one of those things. I thank the good Lord I played as long as I played and came out of it healthy. I took a lot of pounding.”
Henderson said the “bitter” thing about it is that he didn’t get to leave the sport on his own terms: finishing on the field.
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05-09-2007, 10:09 AM
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