Branch Rickey
Wesley Branch Rickey (December 20, 1881 – December 9, 1965) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) executive. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1967.
He was 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.
Further reading
- Branch Rickey: Baseball's Ferocious Gentleman, by Lee Lowenfish (University of Nebraska Press); winner of the Seymour Medal for 2008, nominee for 2007 CASEY Award, Roy Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
- Branch Rickey: A Biography by Murray Polner Atheneum; Signet; and MacFarland, publishers
- Branch Rickey by Jimmy Breslin; Viking 2011
Branch Rickey Media
The seal of the U.S. Department of the Army.
Rickey batting for the Browns in 1906.
Rickey speaks with young shortstop Dick Groat in 1955, his final year as general manager of the Pirates
Rickey in Cincinnati in the early 1960s
Lobby card for The Jackie Robinson Story, 1950. Minor Watson (left) portrays Rickey and Jackie Robinson portrays himself
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