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Branch Rickey Jr. 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 Organized Baseball to break the color ...
- Baseball executive
- January 31, 1914, St. Louis, Missouri
- 1935–1961
- April 10, 1961 (aged 47), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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.
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2. Apr. 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....
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 executive. He ...
4. Jan. 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 ...
4. Apr. 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.
Rickey was the General Manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1943 to 1950. He personally sought out Jackie Robinson as part of his mission to integrate balck athletes into the game of baseball. Though not a popular decision, at the time, Rickey believed that it was the right thing to do.
