Thirty years have drifted by since a baseball player has stolen 80 bases in a season. Thirty … long … years. That used to be a thing. In the 20 seasons between 1969-88, it happened 16 times by eight different players. It was cool.
Then, all of a sudden, it stopped. It's no surprise that the most recent players to do it were Rickey Henderson and Vince Coleman; those two, along with Tim Raines, represented a whole different way of playing baseball. Add in Eric Davis, who stole 80 bases in his extraordinary 1986 season -- look for more about him in an upcoming Throwback Thursday.