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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last fall, Brooklyn's Branch ("The Brain") Rickey tossed a bomb into baseball and stuck his fingers in his ears. He signed up Jack Roosevelt Robinson, a Negro shortstop and onetime football star at U.C.L.A., for his Montreal farm club (TIME, Nov. 5). It was the first time a Negro had ever played Class AA ball without being passed off as a Cuban, a Mexican, or an Indian and there were a good many skeptics who said that it wouldn't work. By last week some of them would admit they were wrong: Jackie Robinson was the International...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jackie Makes Good | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...Mexico's Pasquel brothers. The Pasquels promptly hollered that he owed them $26,000. Said Mickey: "I don't owe them nothing." Presumably, under Baseball Commissioner Happy Chandler's rules, Mickey Owen was banned from U.S. organized ball for five years. But Brooklyn Dodger President Branch Rickey, badly in need of a catcher for his team's stretch drive, was ready to forgive & forget. He argued that Mickey's case was different, since he went straight from the Navy to Mexico, without signing a 1946 Dodger contract. Other ballplayers (the loudest of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Return of the Prodigal | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...Dodgers' Branch Rickey, who spends slowly and talks fast, will miss Olmo, who batted .313 last year. Jorge Pasquel "liberated" Olmo from Rickey for $40,000 for three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mexican Hayride | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...studies, he became the all-conquering football team's top scorer. He gave up indoor track to play on the Point's potent (won 14, lost 1) basketball quintet. As center fielder on the baseball nine, Junior won a $75,000 appraisal label from Dodger President Branch Rickey. In West Point's famed Master of the Sword test-the 300-yd. run, dodge run, standing broad jump, vertical jump, bar vault, rope climb, chins, parallel bar dips, softball throw, sit-ups-he scored an all-time high of 926 points out of 1,000 (cadet average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Army's Super-Dupers | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

Heading the committee are Alexis V. Tellis, chairman of the Year Book, and William J. Rickey, business manager. Other members from Harvard include Frank Farwell, Stanley Fayman, Robert Henninger, John Hollis, George Menkes, Eliot Mover, Travis Nelson, Robert Schaeberle, and Charles Williams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Supply Corps to Dance on June 17 | 6/16/1944 | See Source »

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