Stolen base

In baseball, a stolen base occurs when a baserunner successfully advances to the next base while the pitcher is delivering the ball to home plate. In baseball statistics, stolen bases are denoted by SB. If the catcher thwarts the stolen base by throwing the runner out, the event is recorded as caught stealing (CS).

Record Holders

Rickey Henderson is the most prolific base stealer in Major League Baseball history, with 1,406 over his career. This total is 468 more than the runner-up (Lou Brock, who has 938) and, as of the end of the 2004 season, an astonishing 824 more than the next-highest active player (Kenny Lofton). Henderson also holds the modern record for steals in one season, with 130 in 1982.

Related Topics:
Rickey Henderson - Major League Baseball - Lou Brock - 2004 - Kenny Lofton - 1982

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There are only two players in Major League Baseball history with at least twelve seasons of fifty or more stolen bases: Lou Brock (12) and Rickey Henderson (13). Interestingly, Lou Brock's twelve seasons were ALL consecutive, whereas Rickey Henderson "only" had seven of his twelve 50+ steal seasons consecutively. At the end of the 1983 season, Rickey Henderson had become the first and only player to have 2 consecutive seasons (1982 & 1983) with more than 100 stolen bases. Four years later, Vince Coleman broke that unbelievable record when he stole more than 100 bases for 3 consecutive seasons (1985, 1986 & 1987).

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