Word: rickey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While baseball fans chased such hypotheses round in circles, Dizzy Dean's old teammates, the irrepressible Gas House Gang with whom he has been cavorting ever since he entered big-league baseball, were plainly grieved. But General Manager Branch Rickey sounded the curt keynote of the front office: "The Cardinals will now be a 23-player club, not a Dizzy Dean club...
...baseball circles last week the sale of the Browns was generally regarded as a master stroke on the part of shrewd General Manager Branch Rickey of the Browns' National League rivals, the highly successful St. Louis Cardinals. The St. Louis park in which both Cardinals and Browns play belongs to the Ball estate. The Cardinals, who attract bigger crowds on tour than they do at home, have long wanted to play night games, permissible in their league. Because night games have been banned in the American League, the owners of the Browns refused to install lights. Last week...
Famed for his farm system of developing players from the minor leagues, General Manager Rickey last week showed himself capable of applying the same system to executives. Ever since he left the Browns in 1917 to become President of the Cardinals, Branch Rickey has been grooming a young assistant named William O. DeWitt, whom he sent through law school. In the Barnes syndicate, William O. DeWitt will function as the Browns' general manager. Placing a protégé with the Browns and getting night-game equipment installed at Sportsman's Park were by no means all Branch...
Other Republican first-stringers: Thomas (The Clansman) Dixon, Clarence Buddington Kelland, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Branch Rickey, Alice Marble...
Unsuccessful in his original quest, since the Roosevelt boys were not at home, the versatile soft-drink magnate left quietly with his bodyguard. Yesterday, as a result of his gratitude, lime rickey, grape juice, and other beverages flowed freely in University Hall...