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Wesley Branch Rickey (December 20, 1881 – December 9, 1965) was an American baseball player and sports executive. Rickey was instrumental in breaking Major League Baseball 's color barrier by signing black player Jackie Robinson .
2 de abr. de 2014 · Branch Rickey was a baseball executive known for his groundbreaking 1945 decision to bring Jackie Robinson into the major leagues, thereby breaking the color barrier.
13 de ago. de 2020 · In a career that spanned multiple generations and multiple revolutionary changes in baseball, Branch Rickey was always looking to innovate. A conservative and religious man who notably refused to participate in Sunday ball games as a player and a manager, Rickey was anything but traditional in the way he approached baseball as an ...
Branch Rickey (born December 20, 1881, Stockdale, Ohio, U.S.—died December 9, 1965, Columbia, Missouri) was an American professional baseball executive who devised the farm system of training ballplayers (1919) and hired the first Black players in organized baseball in the 20th century.
4 de ene. de 2012 · He spent parts of the next three seasons in the majors, earning a reputation as a marginal catcher, a poor hitter, and an odd duck for refusing to play baseball on Sundays. In Cincinnati, his refusal to play on Sundays infuriated manager Joe Kelley, who released him back to Dallas before he appeared in a league game.
10 de abr. de 2024 · 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.
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