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==Records== [[Rickey Henderson]], the all-time [[stolen base]] leader with 1,406 steals, holds the major league and [[American League]] records for being caught stealing. Henderson was caught stealing 335 times in his career, including a record 293 times in the American League. [[Lou Brock]], who ranks second on the all-time stolen base list and holds the [[National League (baseball)|National League]] record for career steals with 938, also holds the National League record for times caught stealing. Brock, who spent his entire career in the National League, was caught stealing 307 times.<ref name=caught>{{cite web|title=Caught Stealing Records|url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/recbooks/rb_stbac.shtml|work=[[Baseball Almanac]]|access-date=14 July 2017}}</ref> Henderson also holds the major league and American League records for being caught stealing in a single season. He was thrown out 42 times in 1982, when he also set the post-1900 record for steals in a season with 130. ([[Hugh Nicol]] set the all-time record for steals with 138 in 1887 when he played for the [[Cincinnati Red Stockings]] of the [[American Association (19th century)|American Association]]. Caught stealing records were not kept then.) [[Miller Huggins]] set the single season caught stealing record in the National League in 1914, when he was thrown out 36 times (although he did steal 32 bases that year).<ref name=caught /> [[Robby Thompson]] of the San Francisco Giants was the first player in major league history to be caught stealing four times in one game. This occurred against the [[Cincinnati Reds]] on June 27, 1986.<ref>{{cite news |title=Thompson Sets Wrong Mark |agency=Associated Press |work=Rome News-Tribune |page=10B |date=June 29, 1986 |access-date=June 14, 2018 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kBgwAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IjYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6594,4849614&dq=robby+thompson&hl=en}}</ref>
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