Branch Rickey
Branch Rickey
Wesley Branch Rickeywas an innovative Major League Baseballexecutive elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1967. He was perhaps best known for breaking Major League Baseball's color barrier by signing African American player Jackie Robinson, for drafting the first Afro-Hispanic superstar, Roberto Clemente, for creating the framework for the modern minor league farm system, for encouraging the Major Leagues to add new teams through his involvement in the proposed Continental League, and for introducing the batting helmet...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth20 December 1881
CityPortsmouth, OH
CountryUnited States of America
I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I'd want to be the best at whatever I do.
The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.
A full mind is an empty bat.
Problems are the price you pay for progress.
I'm a man of some intelligence. I've had some education, passed the bar, practiced law. I've been a teacher and I deal with men of substance, statesman, business leaders, the clergy... So why do I spend my time arguing with Dizzy Dean?
Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
It (a baseball box score) doesn't tell how big you are, what church you attend, what color you are, or how your father voted in the last election. It just tells what kind of baseball player you were on that particular day.
Don't look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.
I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable.
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
He's the best prospect I've ever seen.
Never surrender opportunity to security.
Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.
Don't worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too.