Dateline: A Mexican discotheque in the early 1970s. “Rickey [Henderson] had a pair of heels on that were about four inches high. Everything was fine until these people came in yelling that they had guns. Then they started shooting” ... Henderson ducked under a table as gunfire strafed the room. When the shooting ended, Henderson looked down and saw a bullet hole had gone all the way through the heel of his shoe. “If tall heels hadn’t been popular, Rickey Henderson might have had his career ruined.” The narrator was former Japanese baseball legend, Randy Bass (aka Ba-su), from a 1987 SI profile: The Hottest American Import in Japan.
If tall heels hadn’t been popular
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