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
Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse.
Luck is a residue of design.
Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything—even spikes on a new pair of shoes—but they will eventually...they are bound to.
When (Rube) Waddell had control and some sleep, he was unbeatable.
Baseball is a game of inches.
Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it's a deal.
Branch Rickey made me a better man.
I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.
There was never a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than (Jackie) Robinson.
Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
I did not mind the public criticism. That sort of thing has not changed any program I thought was good.
Luck is the residue of opportunity and design.
He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.
I was in the top ten percent of my law school class. I am a Doctor of Juris Prudence. I have an honorary Doctor of Laws. So, would somebody please tell me why I spent four mortal hours today conversing with a person named Dizzy Dean.