Rickey Henderson is the all-time stolen base leader. Rickey liked to run. A lot.

In fact, Henderson attempted 172 stolen bases – and only had 143 hits. That is is the only time in Major League history that a baserunner has attempted to steal more times than he hit.

Here’s what it looked like:

His high on-base percentage buoyed by a lot of walks obviously made the feat possible, but – again – he’s the only one who ever did it. And the only one who ever really came close.

Here is a list of players whose stolen base attempts equaled at least 3/4 of the number of hits:

Good base stealers there.

For his career, Henderson attempted to steal 1,741 bases on 3,055 hits – which is nearly 3/5 the number of hits. That ratio trails only the career numbers Vince Coleman and Otis Nixon – who (combined) had fewer stolen base attempts, hits and stolen bases than Henderson: