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Born. To Mrs. John Eckler, oldest of the five daughters of shrewd Branch Rickey, business manager of the St. Louis Cardinals: a son, weight 8 lb.; in Chicago. Gloated Baseballer Rickey, pointing to his grandson's large baby hands, a catching prospect: "Didn't I tell you? This proves there is such a thing as prenatal influence...
...baritone. Serious, somewhat prissy Bible-Teacher Donnell permitted no antics, and caper-cutting Pupil McDaniel was a good boy in class. When the church trustees needed money, they raised it by holding humorous mock trials in which the legal chums and such pupils as square-jibbed, religious Branch Rickey, vice president of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team, debated such subjects as "To bob or not to bob" (when bobbed-hair was a grave matter); "Resolved, the hen is flightier than the Ford," etc. These debates were considered so funny that the group toured Missouri for years, the spontaneously funny...
...Cardinals' General Manager Branch Rickey, never noted for keeping aging ballplayers, kept Martin long past his prime. Three years ago he declared: "That Pepper Martin will never be sold or traded." But last fortnight, as it must to all ballplayers, the end of his major-league career came to Pepper Martin at 36. To pasture in Sacramento, where he will manage a Cardinals' farm club, went the Wild Horse of the Osage...
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...
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...