Branch Rickey

Branch Rickey was an American sports executive. He was perhaps best known for breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier by signing African American player Jackie Robinson, for drafting the first Hispanic superstar, Roberto Clemente, for creating the framework for the modern minor league farm system, for encouraging the Major Leagues to add new teams through his involvement in the proposed Continental League, and for introducing the batting helmet. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1967.

Date of birth:
20th December, 1881
Date of death:
9th December, 1965
"Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game."
― Branch Rickey
Topic(s): Sports
"Luck is the residue of design."
― Branch Rickey
Topic(s): Design
"I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places – uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me – I find fault."
― Branch Rickey
Topic(s): Courage

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