Branch Rickey made me a better man.
Branch Rickey made me a better man.
About Branch Rickey
Bobby Bragan explaining why he had come to Rickey’s funeral. Bragan, who was a catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, had initially tried to stop Rickey from integrating the team .
Other Branch Rickey Quotes
- ….Humankind, — that all men anthropological come from the same source, with the same potentials, must have a potential equality in chance and opportunity and that is so right, I think, that posterity will look back upon what we are doing today in our domestic issues here. They will look back upon it, I think, with incredulity and they’ll wonder what the issue was all about. I really think so. It’s solved in baseball. It’ll be solved educationally. It’ll be solved everywhere in the course of time. - View Quote Details on ….Humankind, — that all men anthropological come from the same…
- My eight years in Brooklyn gave me a new vision of America, or rather America gave me a new vision of a part of itself, Brooklyn. They were wonderful years. A community of over three million people, proud, hurt, jealous, seeking geographical, social, emotional status as a city apart and alone and sufficient. One could not live for eight years in Brooklyn and not catch its spirit of devotion to its baseball club, such as no other city in America equaled. Call it loyalty, and so it was. It would be a crime against a community of three million people to move the Dodgers. Not that the move was unlawful, since people have the right to do as they please with their property. But a baseball club in any city in America is a quasi-public institution, and in Brooklyn the Dodgers were public without the quasi. - View Quote Details on My eight years in Brooklyn gave me a new vision…
- Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything—even spikes on a new pair of shoes—but they will eventually…they are bound to. - View Quote Details on Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took…
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