Over at the Fun Hut, Matt Snyder is reporting that Rickey Henderson enthusiast Rickey Henderson is still interested in playing in the majors. The 50-year-old Henderson has hemmed and hawed about his desire to play for the better part of this decade, but this latest development is interesting because, as far as I’m aware, Henderson could be the only Hall of Famer to ever play the game.

Signing and playing Rickey Henderson, of course, would be tantamount to a gimmick, but gimmicks are fun, right? When Minnie Minoso, whose career debuted in 1949, returned for a cup of coffee with the White Sox in 1976 and again in 1980, he wasn’t productive, but the fans loved it.

Stranger things have happened. When the Olympics were in Atlanta, the Braves held a tryout for a Czech Olympic javelin thrower with no baseball experience. Garth Brooks once participated in Spring Training with the Padres. And Felix Pie is a baseball player. Teams are still willing to make ridiculous gambles on guys who almost certainly won’t pan out, so despite the recent lack of interest in Rickey after his “I want to play” overtures, a return of Rickey Henderson to the majors actually makes a marginal amount of sense in an “eh, what the Hell” sort of way. So hey, if there are any cavalier general managers out there: a lot of us would love to see Rickey play at the major league level again, if only out of curiosity. Sure, he’ll probably hit .205, but sometimes you just have to take one for the league.