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Branch Rickey (22)

Birth:	20th December, 1881
Death:	9th December, 1965
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Baseball Player

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Births

• 1942 - Lynn Davies
• 1915 - Moshe Dayan
• 1948 - Robert G. Allen
• 1901 - Max Euwe
• 1799 - Honoré de Balzac

Deaths

• 1975 - Barbara Hepworth
• 1782 - William Emerson
• 1956 - Max Beerbohm
• 1834 - Marquis de Lafayette
• 1713 - Thomas Sprat

• Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.

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• A full mind is an empty bat.

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• Baseball is a game of inches.

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• All I had was natural ability.

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• A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.

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• Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

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• How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.

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• I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places – uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me – I find fault.

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• Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day.

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• I don’t care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I’d want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I’d want to be the best at whatever I do.

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• Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.

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• Never surrender opportunity for security.

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• Problems are the price you pay for progress.

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• The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.

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• If things don’t come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.

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• It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.

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• Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.

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• Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.

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• The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.

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• Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.

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