Rickey Says "Happy Birthday!"

Dialj

The only player to ever talk in 3rd person. "Rickey says that Rickey told everyone that today is Rickey's birthday."

MrNearMint

Did he really speak in 3rd person?

lawnmowerman

<< <i>Did he really speak in 3rd person? >>



All the time. In fact, he was so into himself, he didn't know who his own teammates were sometimes.

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billwaltonsbeard

There are dozens of great Rickey stories. Two of my favorites:

Rickey once framed a very large paycheck and hung it on his wall, not realized that he had to take it to the bank to actually get the money.

Late in his career, the team was all getting onto a bus and a discussion came up between a coach and a younger player regarding the seats in the front of the bus. The coach advised the player that only players with tenure could sit in those seats. Rickey overheard the discussion and said, "Tenure? I got Twenty year!!"

MrNearMint

Yikes!!

Sounds like a fun guy and good teammate

billwaltonsbeard

I just read through that list. The Olerud story is hilarious. I had forgotten about that one.

lawnmowerman

<< <i>I just read through that list. The Olerud story is hilarious. I had forgotten about that one. >>



My fav as well!

Tomi

<< <i>Did he really speak in 3rd person? >>



Bo Jackson did a lot of that. I'm a big fan, but it was annoying listening to him talk about himself in the 3rd person.

Stone193

Rickey used to have me over every Thanksgiving.

Till I told him he "runs like a girl."

Now? Not even a card.

seebelow

Link not working here. Is the olerud story when he told him he had a teammate that looked like him?

Classic Rickey story....the day he set the stolen base record he says "today I'm the greatest in the world" then later that day Nolan Ryan throws his seventh no hitter. So wasn't the headliner on sportscaster, evening sports. Sometimes there is balance in the universe.

Tomi

Rickey said that the Olerud story was not true in an interview.