Somerville: Phone lost at Raiders game returned by Rickey Henderson

Jessica Herrera says the man who answered her brother's lost phone was A's great Rickey Henderson. Jessica Herrera says the man who answered her brother's lost phone was A's great Rickey Henderson. Photo: Jessica Herrera Photo: Jessica Herrera Image 1 of / 7 Caption Close Somerville: Phone lost at Raiders game returned by Rickey Henderson 1 / 7 Back to Gallery

This is a story about a lost phone. Why would I do a story about a lost phone? It's all because of who found it. Here's what Jessica Herrera sent me:

I wanted to share an amazing story that happened on Sunday, September 17th.

My brother and I went to the Raiders game and my brother lost his phone. You could imagine that I was irritated with him at that point because there are thousands of people all leaving the game and we are backtracking our steps to find his phone.

I called and texted his phone numerous times with no response or answer. At that point, I told him he is out of luck. Since there were so many people leaving, we decided to wait in the parking lot to let the traffic die down.

My brother asked me to call his phone again, so I did. To my surprise, a man answered it.

I informed him that he has my phone and am willing to meet him anywhere to pick it up from him.

The man informed me that he was in North Oakland, which was pretty far from the Coliseum, but he provided a place to meet off of Highway 13.

My brother's friend knew where the place was to meet him, so I told the man that I will call him when I get there.

Before we hung up, I asked the man for his name and he said "Rickey Henderson." (For those who don't know Rickey Henderson is a Hall of Fame player from the Oakland A's)

In complete disbelief of this information, I laughed at the man and said "yea, right!" But if you really are him, I'm going to take a lot of photos and get some autographs.' LOL.

The man ("Rickey") laughed as well and hung up. I told my brother and his friend about what this man said and we all laughed about it. So we get to the meeting place and I call "Rickey" to tell him that I am there. He said that he is almost there.

We are all waiting for the phone to show up and sure enough, in a black Escalade, it was Rickey Henderson!

We were all so excited to see him and actually meet him in person! He was so sweet and kind.

He took pictures with us and signed autographs for us. It was absolutely amazing!

We asked him how he found the telephone and he said that someone left the phone on his bumper.

LOL.

I am sending you this story because I would like Rickey Henderson to know how appreciative we are of him for being so humble, nice and actually willing to meet us to give the phone back.

Additionally, I just think this story is so amazing and random! This was LITERALLY one of the best experiences of our lives. We are Oakland natives who grew up watching him and we still live in Oakland.

-Jessica Herrera

Great story.

Way to go Rickey.

Frank Somerville is a contributor to SFGATE and anchors the 5, 6, and 10 p.m. news on KTVU. This post originally appeared on his Facebook page.