"I'm sadder that I left so suddenly and so early"
In a telephone interview with MHN Sports on the 23rd (Korea Standard Time), KBSN commentator Jeon Joon-ho, the KBO (Korea Professional Baseball) League's "stealing king," said of Ricky Henderson (66), the major league's "Daedo" who suddenly died, "I'm sadder that I left so suddenly and early," adding, "It's often called the '100-year-old era,' but Henderson died in his mid-60s." He is at an age when he can work for a long time for baseball development…"I couldn't stop talking.
The LA Times reported on the 22nd, "Ricky Henderson, who played 25 seasons in the Major League and had the most steals (1406) in history, passed away suddenly on the 21st," adding, "His former team, the Oakland club, announced the news of Henderson's obituary a day later, on the 22nd, "His death was so surprising and heartbreaking."
According to the media, the cause of Henderson's death is still unknown. Some online media cited "pneumonia" as the cause of death, but it has not been confirmed whether it is accurate.
"When I was a player for a long time in the mid-1990s, there was no Internet. That's why we couldn't easily access Major League Baseball or Japanese baseball," Jeon said. "When I was playing for Hyundai in the U.S., I heard a lot about Henderson through the instructors there. I learned a lot from watching his video clips during the training in the U.S."
Jeon started his professional career by joining Lotte in 1991. He stood out in hitting and running base from his first year, and contributed greatly to Lotte's victory in the Korean Series in 1992. Lotte has no longer won the Korean Series since then. 스포츠토토
Jeon, who transferred from Lotte to Hyundai through a trade in 1997, later made a big mark in the history of Korean professional baseball, winning the Korean Series four times as a central member of the "modern dynasty."