Branch Rickey

"Folks, this here young man deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. Not only because he pitched twos, but because he got two bonuses from Branch Rickey."

"In 1939 I led the league in hitting with .349. Naturally after a year like that you look forward to talking contract. But when I sat down with Rickey, he said, "Well, your home run production stayed p…"

"....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 posteri…"

"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…"

"I'll tell you what the word used to be about Rickey. Stay in the pennant race until the last week of the season, and then get beat. I heard some talk to the effect that that was what he preferred. Tha…"

"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, p…"

"Rickey had all the money and all the players and never let the two get together."

"Luck is the residue of design."