Word: rickey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accepted or rejected? The decisions often seemed downright whimsical. At McLean (Va.) High School, David Stanley, 18, top boy in his class, was turned down by Swarthmore, which accepted Jerry Nelson, 16, whose grades were mediocre. At New York City's Andrew Jackson High School. Rickey Field, 18, was accepted by Harvard, Princeton and Columbia, but turned down by the University of Michigan. At New York's Riverdale Country School, James Avary, 18, applied only to Princeton. His College Board English and math aptitude scores averaged only 580 (out of a possible 800), but he was accepted...
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 19--The proposed third major league, the Continental, does not plan to operate in 1960. When it does function it will pay reasonable compensation for territorial rights, President Branch Rickey of the proposed loop assured minor league chief George M. Trautman today following a remonstrative telegram from the latter...