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
Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.
Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.
Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse.
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.
There was never a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than (Jackie) Robinson.
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.
Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.
The world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t.
These are uncertain times. We cannot be content to rest on yesterday's laurels. These are times when we must strengthen rather than let down those standards which have stood in such good stead in crises that are past. Baseball cannot be selfish, or irresponsible, or lax. Neither can the men who operate it.
The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
He's the best prospect I've ever seen.