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Wrigley got the moral support of two sound friends: Cub Attorney Paul V. Harper and Dodger Boss Branch Rickey...
...Branch Rickey, Brooklyn Dodgers' boss, known and revered as "The Brain" in baseball circles, agreed with Cox. Said Rickey: "At the price [some $230,000], the lowest asked for a National League club in baseball history . . . there is a chance to get rich within ten years. . . . The new owners must be ready with enterprise, working capital, management, gameness, the spirit of adventure. . . . Even if the war stops baseball for a couple of seasons, the value of the Philadelphia club would be enhanced. . . . After two years of inactivity all the clubs would start from scratch...
Legend says that when P. T. Barnum, James Gordon Bennett, Edwin Booth or Colonel Joe ("Gin") Rickey began to brim over at the Hoffman, Bouguereau's girls came to life. In 1934 a smaller Nymphs and Satyr appeared in Trenton, N.J.'s Stacy-Trent Hotel, where novices are told that on the stroke of midnight the picture turns around, reveals the nymphs to better advantage. Robert R. Meyer, owner of the smaller painting, thinks that Bouguereau may have painted a second, but has not proved...
...Walrus-eyebrowed, cautious Branch Rickey, 60-year-old creator of baseball's farm system and its No. 1 exponent during 22 of the 25 years he ran the St. Louis Cardinals: the general managership of the Brooklyn Dodgers; succeeding extravagant, rollicking Larry MacPhail, his onetime protégé; for a five-year term; at a reported salary of $40,000, plus a bonus. The new Brooklyn boss has never watched a ball game on Sunday...
...After Rickey turned pro, he served the Reds, the St. Louis Browns and the N.Y. Americans as a not-very-good catcher. Then he got into the business end of baseball. Today he earns $50,000 plus a percentage of the club's take, the largest salary in baseball next to that of Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis...