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Branch Rickey Biography

Wesley Branch Rickey (December 20, 1881 – December 9, 1965) was an American baseball player and sports executive. He was perhaps best known for breaking Major League Baseball's color barriers by signing black player Jackie Robinson and for drafting the first Hispanic superstar, Roberto Clemente, as well as 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, two years after his death.

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Luck is the residue of opportunity and design.

Opportunity, Design, Luck

A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.

Ballplayer, Chance, Player, Take, Take A Chance

How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.

Leisure Activities, Use, Problem, Leisure, Time

Things worthwhile generally don’t just happen. Luck is a fact, but should not be a factor. Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Negligence or indifference are usually reviewed from an unlucky seat. The law of cause and effect and causality both work the same with inexorable exactitudes. Luck is the residue of design.

Design, Effort, Good Luck, Indifference, Law, Usually

Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.

Early, Player, Too Late, Year, Years

Don't worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too.

Baseball, Motivational, Numbers, Successful, Team, Worry

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

Baseball, Ethnic, Game, Games, Sports, Truth

When (Rube) Waddell had control and some sleep, he was unbeatable.

Control, Rube, Sleep, Unbeatable, Waddell

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.

Baseball, Bound, Numbers, Pair, Uniforms, Years

Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run.

Baseball, Experience, Flawless, Men, Penetrate, Running

Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.

Mean, Offense, Steal, Stealing, Thou

He's the best prospect I've ever seen.

Baseball, Prospect, Seen

The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.

Ball, Balls, Happens, He Man, Men, Responsible

Never surrender opportunity to security.

Opportunity, Running, Security, Surrender

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.

Affects, Children, Courage, Fault, Want

Worry is simply thinking the same thing over and over again and not doing anything about it.

Same, Thing, Thinking, Thinking The Same, Worry

Problems are the price you pay for progress.

Adversity, Pay, Price, Progress, Survival

It (a baseball box score) doesn't tell how big you are, what church you attend, what color you are, or how your father voted in the last election. It just tells what kind of baseball player you were on that particular day.

Baseball, Father, Kind, Particular, Player, Score

A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.

Baseball, Charm, Game, Games, Hazardous, Men

Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.

Baseball, Change, Slow, Uniforms, Years

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