brains in his feet

"He played as if he had brains in his feet." That's what Branch Rickey said about Ty Cobb. It's a quotation that stays in the mind. I last saw it under Cobb's picture, in the rotunda of the Hall of Fame. It came to mind again today when I heard that Rickey Henderson (and Jim Rice) had been elected to the Hall of Fame. Henderson is the all-time steals leader, with 1,406, and runs leader, with 2,295.