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When Branch Rickey Jr. was born on 30 January 1915, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, his father, Wesley Branch Rickey, was 33 and his mother, Jennie Moulton, was 32. He married Mary Elizabeth Iams Rickey on 27 June 1936, in Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, United States.
Branch Rickey, a 1904 graduate, was named the most influential figure of the 20th century in sports by ESPN. A leader in the Civil Rights Movement, he spearheaded the integration of major league baseball in the 1940s, when he signed Jackie Robinson to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Ohio Wesleyan produced this video honoring Branch Rickey in 2011.
8 de jun. de 2018 · Wesley Branch Rickey. 1881-1965. American baseball executive. The names Rickey and Robinson will always be linked in the annals of sport because of their respective roles in breaking major league baseball's "color line," a seminal event which is regarded as having had a monumental effect — perhaps most of all symbolically, but also in a practical sense — on the Civil Rights movement.
3 de sept. de 2021 · Branch Rickey changed the face of baseball in 1947 when he promoted Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers. It was his greatest act in a lifetime filled with many exemplary acts.
27 de ago. de 2023 · Wesley Branch Rickey, Jr. (January 31, 1914 – April 10, 1961) was an American front office executive in Major League Baseball. The son of Baseball Hall of Fame club executive Branch Rickey, who among his many achievements invented the farm system and led the movement within baseball to break the color line, ...
The great Brooklyn Dodgers dynasty was born out of the genius of Branch Rickey. And on Aug. 13, 1945, Rickey – already the Dodgers team president – assumed control of the team when he and associates Walter O'Malley and John Smith acquired a 50-percent interest of the Ebbets estate for a reported $750,000. After the transaction, Rickey, O ...
15 de abr. de 2012 · Thomas was born in Weston, W.Va., in 1881, the same year that Rickey was born in Stockdale, Ohio. When Thomas was 3, his family moved across the Ohio River to Zanesville, Ohio. He lettered in ...
