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	Branch Rickey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rickey was born outside of Portsmouth, Ohio, the son of Frank W. and Emily Brown Rickey.
		However, Rickey was not ready for the rigors of the tough Central League and was assigned to LeMars, Iowa of the Class D Iowa-South Dakota League.
		Rickey was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame as a contributor in 1967.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Branch_Rickey (1609 words)

	Branch Rickey - BR Bullpen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Branch Rickey was a baseball player, manager, and executive who was the driving force behind two of the most important changes in baseball in the 20th Century: the development of the farm system and the end of baseball's color line.
		Rickey's most important contribution to the team was probably his signing of George Sisler, a former player for Rickey at Michigan who had been declared a free agent because of irregularities in his initial signing.
		As president and manager, Rickey brought the team to its first sustained success in over 30 years; the 1921 and 1922 teams were the first since the 1890 and 1891 versions to finish with winning records in consecutive seasons.
	www.baseball-reference.com /bullpen/Branch_Rickey (1851 words)

	Branch Rickey's Obituary
		Rickey, who was known as the "master trader" of his time, used shrewd judgment in trading many top stars, often when they had passed their peak as performers but could still draw a high price.
		Branch Wesley Rickey was born on a farm at Stockdale, Ohio, on Dec. 20, 1881, the second of three sons, to Jacob Franklin and Emily Rickey, who were known for their piety.
		Rickey had taken the Cardinals when the club was $175,000 in debt and, by spending only enough for a railroad ticket at times, had developed players who brought the club the National League pennant in 1926, 1928, 1930, 1931, 1934 and 1942, along with World Series victories in four of those years.
	www.cardinalshistory.com /branch_rickeys_obituary.htm (2019 words)

	BookRags: Wesley Branch Rickey Biography
		Branch Rickey was born on December 20, 1881, in Stockdale, Ohio, and was raised in nearby Lucasville.
		Rickey's intense moralism and sermonlike speeches led sportswriters to dub him the "Deacon" or the "Mahatma" (after Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi), and his office became known as the "Cave of the Winds." But by 1946 Rickey, now a part owner of the Dodgers, had once again constructed a pennant-contending team and his popularity soared.
		Rickey, who believed that segregation was immoral, correctly recognized that political pressures would soon bring about the integration of baseball and perceived that the first owner to tap this new source of players would benefit both in the standings and at the box office.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/wesley-branch-rickey (894 words)

	MLB.com - Negro Leagues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Branch Rickey, right, with Preacher Roe, is the main reason the Brooklyn Dodgers won six pennants and one World Championship from 1947 to 1956.
		Branch Rickey said a lot of things -- he was a baseball executive, evangelist, and Shakespearian actor all rolled into one -- and so his statements, both the humanitarian and the coldly practical, should not be taken at face value.
		Rickey was both a righteous man and a first class baseball operator; the former could not have thrived without the latter, and he knew it.
	www.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/history/mlb_negro_leagues_story.jsp?story=rickey_branch (2332 words)

	Branch Rickey Papers (Library of Congress)
		The papers of Branch Rickey, major league baseball player, manager, and executive, were given to the Library of Congress by his daughters and daughter-in-law, Sue Rickey Adams, Mary Rickey Eckler, Alice Rickey Jakle, Jane Rickey Jones, Elizabeth Rickey Wolfe, and Mary Rickey, in 1972, supplemented by an addition received in 1980.
		Copyright in the unpublished writings of Branch Rickey in these papers and in other collections of papers in the custody of the Library of Congress is controlled by the donors during their lifetimes.
		The papers of Wesley Branch Rickey (1881-1965) span the years 1890-1971, with the bulk of the papers concentrated in the period from 1936 to 1965.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/rickey.html (2175 words)

	Breaking the Barriers: A Houston Chronicle Special Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Rickey was a conservative white Republican and a devout Methodist, known throughout the game as someone with whom not to tangle.
		Rickey kept a private portfolio of personal papers, the contents of which were not revealed until 10 years after his death in 1965.
		Shortly before Rickey's death in 1965 at age 83, he sent a telegram to Robinson, who by that time was retired from baseball and involved in the Civil Rights movement with Martin Luther King.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/sports/special/barriers/rickey.html (547 words)

	Branch Rickey
		Rickey's all-seeing eye enhanced his knack for trades, for he always knew precisely the players he wanted and exactly the players he was prepared to give up.
		However noble his motives may have been, he was undeniably the first beneficiary of the change: it certainly was a brave move to sign Jackie Robinson, breaking the silently-upheld color barrier that had existed since the 1880s.
		Rickey was not much of a ballplayer himself, although he came to the Reds in 1904 well-recommended as a catcher.
	www.baseball-statistics.com /HOF/Rickey.html (839 words)

	TheDeadballEra.com :: BAD TO THE BONE: BRANCH RICKEY
		Branch Rickey was one of the greatest executives in baseball history, and also one of it's cheapest.
		Branch Rickey caught briefly in the majors, later managing the Browns and Cardinals.
		Rickey's motto was: "it's better to trade a player a year early instead of a year late." He was also a cartoonist's dream, a living caricature with bushy eyebrows and big jowls.
	www.thedeadballera.com /BadBoneRickey.html (771 words)

	Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson
		A flamboyant, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, 63-year-old midwesterner whose ordinary speech often resembled a sermon, Rickey was the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, one of the longest established major-league baseball teams.
		Rickey himself followed a strategy of denying that he was trying to integrate baseball, much less make an impact on the broader society.
		Rickey then gave Robinson a copy of Papini's Life of Christ and asked him to read the sections on nonviolence (this was more than ten years before the Montgomery bus boycott).
	www.worldandi.com /newhome/public/2003/march/mtpub.asp (5491 words)

	Chautauqua 2000 - Bios: Branch Rickey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Branch Rickey played a major role in shaping modern professional baseball, thus influencing all professional sports.
		Among Rickey’s many accomplishments, the most significant were inventing the farm team system, breaching the color barrier and forcing league expansion.
		In 1942 Rickey moved to the Brooklyn Dodgers, where he pursued an old goal of integrating major league baseball.
	www.explorepeninsula.com /chautauqua_2000/rickey.html (241 words)

	Branch Rickey \| BaseballLibrary.com
		The honorific The Mahatma combined respect for Rickey's baseball sagacity with amusement at his pontifical manner and florid speech, which gave him the air of a con man playing a parson.
		Rickey, acquired last February from the Browns, is pressed into service despite a bad shoulder because of the injury to starter Red Kleinow.
		Rickey's first throw to 2B ends up in right field and the subsequent tosses are not much better.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/R/Rickey_Branch.stm (2734 words)

	Branch Rickey Quotes by Baseball Almanac
		Rickey's office and sat across the table from him.
		Rickey had great insight into everyday life as well as baseball.
		Rickey went out of his way to do so much to put fls in the major leagues.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /quotes/quobr.shtml (1039 words)

	Branch Rickey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Branch Rickey was a free thinker, and devised a number of "gadgets" that helped improve the game and help speed the development of the young talent he was accumulating.
		Rickey then was able to draw the best talent out of the minors to play for the parent club.
		Rickey also brought to the game the first batting helmets, batting cages, pitching machines, and a string to outline the strike zone for pitchers working on their control.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h2076.html (911 words)

	ESPN Classic - Classic Sports Reporters: Branch Rickey
		Rickey is the man who invented the farm system for baseball.
		Rickey's minor league system is one reason the Cardinals won five flags in nine years (1926-1934).
		Rickey was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1967.
	espn.go.com /classic/s/classic_branch_rickey.html (197 words)

	JohnPBeavers.com -- Branch Rickey's Measure of a Person: Work Ethic and Desire - September 1998
		Branch Rickey is most famous for giving Jackie Robinson the opportunity in 1947 to pursue a career in major league baseball.
		When the YMCA manager asked Rickey to have Thomas leave, Rickey reportedly said, "Under no circumstances will I leave or allow Thomas to be put out." Apparently Rickey won the confrontation, and Thomas stayed in Rickey’s room.
		What attracted Rickey to men like Thomas and Jackie Robinson was their desire to be, and their work ethic to become, championship players.
	www.johnpbeavers.com /parenting/Rickey.asp (815 words)

	The Official Home of Baseball Historian Dr. Harold Seymour and the SABR Seymour Medal Award
		Rickey is also remembered for his role in developing the minor league farm system back in the 1920s, when he was general manager for the St. Louis Cardinals.
		Rickey is less remembered for his role in inadvertently bringing about the expansion of major league baseball from sixteen teams at the end of the 1960 season to twenty at the start of the 1962 season.
		Rickey was not a simple man. Famed sportswriter Red Smith once said of him, “Rickey was a player, manager, executive, lawyer, preacher, horse-trader, spellbinder, innovator, husband and father and grandfather, farmer, logician, obscurantist, reformer, financier, sociologist, crusader, sharper, father confessor, checker shark, friend and fighter.
	haroldseymour.com /article.asp?articleid=60055 (1843 words)

	Branch Rickey, Jackie Robinson to be honored by Ohio Wesleyan
		Branch Rickey, Jackie Robinson to be honored by Ohio Wesleyan
		between Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson, and what it meant to society at this year's Commencement is as meaningful as it could be," says Courtice, adding that this is Rickey's centennial OWU graduation anniversary year.
		Prior to his involvement as a league president, Rickey spent more than 20 years in major league baseball with the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Cincinnati Reds as a scout, as an assistant scouting director and as a director of player development.
	www.collegenews.org /x3199.xml (595 words)

	Branch B. Rickey III - 10 With MLN Interview on the Sports Business & Albuquerque Baseball (p.1) - MLN Sports Zone ...
		Wesley Branch Rickey, born in Flat, Ohio in 1881 was the architect of the modern farm system, developing farm clubs for the Cardinals and the Dodgers.
		His grandson, Branch B. Rickey III, carries on the tradition of pushing the sport forward into a modern era.
		One of the most intelligent and articulate stewards of the game, Rickey talks one-on-one with MLN about modern era stadia, and the "leap of faith" needed in cities like his latest project: Albuquerque, New Mexico.
	www.minorleaguenews.com /features/10withMLN/Rickey/10MLN043001.html (567 words)

	Baseball and Jackie Robinson - Baseball, the Color Line, and Jackie Robinson (American Memory from the Library of ...
		This excerpt covers Branch Rickey's ideas about his role in breaking the color line in baseball, some of why and how he did it, and his expectation that all leagues will be integrated in 1956.
		Rickey: Well, that would be a long story and it involved the manager and involved a temporary upset in which Arky was disaffected and decided he would quit and he changed his mind and was very -
		Rickey: He was - and we owed him over $800,000 - the Club did - when I went to Brooklyn and he was a man of wide importance in that community as well as a financier of note - he was President of the Brooklyn Trust Co.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/collections/robinson/davis.html (598 words)

	TDA Book Review - Branch Rickey in Pittsburgh
		They likely know that Rickey was the architect of the great Brooklyn teams of the late '40s, and of the Cardinals of the late '30s to mid '40s.
		But this book is about Rickey, who knew the end of his active career was coming, putting together one final team.
		Rickey employed his timeworn methods while striving to build a winner for Pittsburgh, which curiously meant stripping the Pirates of every player with any semblance of talent and starting from scratch.
	www.thediamondangle.com /books/branch.html (264 words)

	Branch Rickey
		When all heaven rejoiced: Branch Rickey and the origins of the breaking of the color line.
		Branch Rickey as a public manager: fulfilling the eight responsibilities of public management.
		Branch rickey and jackie robinson : Precursors to the Civil Rights Movement.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0109573.html (233 words)

	Chicago White Sox News
		The Branch Rickey award was created by the Rotary Club of Denver in 1991 to honor individuals in baseball who contribute unselfishly to their community and who are strong role models for others.
		Rickey also helped develop the farm system in baseball and stimulated the sports expansion into more cities.
		The Branch Rickey award is a bronze sculpture of a baseball player, created by internationally renowned sculptor George Lundeen.
	mlb.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/cws/news/cws_press_release.jsp?ymd=20031107&content_id=600599&vkey=pr_cws&fext=.jsp (548 words)

	St. Louis Walk of Fame - Branch Rickey
		Often called the greatest front-office strategist in baseball history, Branch Rickey came to the Cardinals in 1917 and turned a losing team into a powerhouse.
		Believing that "luck is the residue of design," he developed the modern farm system that brought the Cardinals nine pennants and six World Series through the 1940s.
		Branch Rickey simultaneously broke baseball’s color line and built the great Dodger teams of the 1940s and 1950s, ensuring his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
	www.stlouiswalkoffame.org /inductees/branch-rickey.html (129 words)

	OWU Online \| Branch Rickey Arena (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Named after Branch Rickey '04, who integrated major league baseball while president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, the arena opened its doors in time for the 1976-77 season.
		Branch Rickey Arena seats 2300 for basketball and has been the site for NCAA Division III playoff games for both genders as well as several North Coast Athletic Conference and Ohio Athletic Conference tournaments.
		Rickey Arena is part of the Rickey Center, which also includes the adjacent Gordon Field House.
	go.owu.edu /~athlweb/brarena.html (276 words)

	Colorado Rockies : News : Colorado Rockies News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Rickey invented baseball's modern farm system and helped lay the groundwork for modern scouting and statistical analysis.
		He said he and his father "admired Branch Rickey for having the guts" to change sports history and as a result help lead to changes elsewhere in society.
		Rickey's grandson, Branch B. Rickey, president of the Triple-A Pacific Coast League, said his family appreciates the honor, but the statue is more than just a family tribute.
	colorado.rockies.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20050602&content_id=1072894&vkey=news_col&fext=.jsp&c_id=col (608 words)

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