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Explore genealogy for Branch Rickey born 1881 Madison Township, Scioto, Ohio, United States of America died 1965 Columbia, Boone County, ... Father of Wesley Branch Rickey Jr. and Alice Rickey. Died 9 Dec 1965 at age 84 in Columbia, Boone County, Missouri, United States of America.
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.
Rickey is the grandson of Branch Rickey, who is best known for spearheading the movement within Major League Baseball to break the color barrier and for creating the framework for the modern minor league farm system. His father, Branch Rickey Jr., served as farm system director for both the Brooklyn Dodgers and Pittsburgh Pirates.
Rickey’s life in baseball began as a player for the St. Louis Browns and New York Highlanders from 1905-07. After struggling on the diamond, Rickey left the game and enrolled in law school at the University of Michigan. Rickey returned to baseball in 1914, this time as an executive and manager for the St. Louis Browns, before moving across ...
Martin L. King, Jr. MLK:mlb. 1. Rickey to King, 28 January 1959. Wesley Branch Rickey (1881-1965), born in Stockdale, Ohio, graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University (1904) and the University of Michigan Law School (1911). Beginning in 1905, Rickey worked for several professional baseball teams in a variety of capacities, among them player, scout ...
Branch Rickey, 83, Dies in Missouri. By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL. COLUMBIA, Mo. Dec. 9--Branch Rickey, a dominant figure in baseball for half a century, died tonight in Boone County Memorial Hospital at the age of 83. He broke the color barrier in the major leagues and developed the farm system. Mr. Rickey had remained unconscious in the ...
