OAKLAND -- Rickey Henderson can't quite recall how many times he pulled off the feat as a kid, slithering his way into the Coliseum without a ticket in hand. He is sure of this, though: "Did I get caught? No, I was too fast."
Of course.
"They used to have the bleachers out there," Henderson explained, "and they had just a fence out there, so we would find a way to get underneath the fence, or cut the fence, and then game time we would sneak in and see the ballgame.
"Most of the kids behind me got caught.