Boston gave Rickey an Appreciation Day one year. One of the team's owners, Tom Werner, asked Rickey what might be a good idea for a gift from the team. "I always wanted a mobile home," Rickey said. Werner, staggered, said, "A mobile phone?" "No," Rickey said, "a mobile homer" Werner asked Rickey for another suggestion. He asked for " John Henry's Mercedes" referring to the vehicle of another of the team's owners. Werner explained the club might have difficulty finding and taking delivery of the same make and model on short notice. "No, I mean John Henry's Mercedes," Rickey said. Henry wasn't about to hand over his car. On Rickey's Day, a new car was being delivered to Fenway Park just as Henderson arrived. It was a shiny red Thunderbird. "Whose ugly car is that?" Henderson said. That was the car the Red Sox purchased for him as a gift. "It's an old man's car, and I'm not an old man."