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Allen University Branch Rickey, major league baseball executive L.H.D...
This is the Pirates' year, however, as Branch Rickey's building process, which began eight years ago, will flower this season. The Bucs made a good run at Milwaukee last year, but if they had won, it would have been somewhat of a fluke. Thanks to the key trade this winter that brought to them a catcher who could hit, a steady left-hand starter, and a good third baseman all in exchange for an excellent third baseman, a Pirate victory this year would be no fluke...
...Branch Rickey, chairman, Pittsburgh Pirates Doctor of Humanics
...this era of $100,000 bonuses for hot-shot high school kids who often end up in the bushes, the $4,000 paid to Bill Mazeroski for signing his contract seems more and more the best bargain Branch Rickey ever made. "Pound for dollar," says Pittsburgh Baseball Announcer Bob Prince in the lingo of the press box, "Mazeroski is far and away the most valuable chattel in the Pirate empire...
...They are built in the poorer sections of the city. The toilets at most ballparks are a germ hazard that would turn a bacteriologist grey. Why, when I came to the Dodgers, I spent a quarter of a million dollars just to change the urinals, and Branch Rickey, who was the general manager, nearly had a stroke. He couldn't comprehend spending that much money on the customers when we could spend it on ballplayers...