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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 .
Apr 2, 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. Updated: Apr 13, 2021...
Branch Rickey Stories. Explore the archives and go deep into the lives, careers, and stories of the Hall of Fame's honorees. 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 ...
Apr 4, 2024 · 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.
Jan 4, 2012 · Branch Rickey was “a man of strange complexities, not to mention downright contradictions,” wrote the New York Times’ John Drebinger. The great decision to break baseball’s policy of excluding blacks, for which he is justly praised, has, in recent decades, tended to overwhelm the highly negative image he had earned before that decision.
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