Word: branche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have to care about baseball," he always insisted, but he was always a little surprised by the depth of his own devotion. "Imagine," Wesley Branch Rickey once said, "a man trained for the law devoting his entire life and energies to something so cosmically unimportant as a game...
...player, Branch Rickey's contribution to baseball is best forgotten. A no-hit, no-field catcher, he bounced briefly around the majors reaching a sort of apex with the New York Highlanders in 1907, when he batted .182 and permitted the Washington Senators to steal 13 bases in one game. That was enough to convince Rickey that his talents were better suited to the front office. Over the next 50-odd years, with the St. Louis Browns, the St. Louis Cardinals, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Pittsburgh Pirates, he established himself as "the Mahatma," "the Brain," the brightest innovator...
...Branch Rickey might have become a practicing attorney-but he quit after trying one case. He might have been elected Governor of Missouri-but he chose to turn down the Republican nomination in 1940. From the day he played his first pickup game in the 1890s until he died last week at 83, baseball was his career, his hobby and his life. He never really rued his decision ("The game has given me joy"), but there were times when he wondered aloud, balancing a baseball in his palm: "This symbol? Is it worth a man's whole life...
...This branch of mathematics is used to analyze problems in which large numbers of variables interact. It provides social scientists, business administrators, and natural scientists with a method for making decisions when numerous factors must be weighed against each other...
...Massachusetts group is a branch of National Coalition Politics, which met first in Santa Barbara in August, and then in Washington...