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Rickey is the title character in the 1989 Edward Schmidt play Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting, a fictionalized version of the meeting in which Rickey offered Jackie Robinson a major-league contract. [66] Additionally, he was also featured heavily in the 2016 PBS documentary, Jackie Robinson, which was directed by Ken Burns. [67]
After the season, the Dodgers traded Robinson to the arch-rival New York Giants for Dick Littlefield and $35,000 cash (equal to $392,240 today). The trade, however, was never completed; unbeknownst to the Dodgers, Robinson had already agreed with the president of Chock full o'Nuts to quit baseball and become an executive with the company. [187]
The first contract Jackie Robinson signed along with Brooklyn Dodgers president Branch Rickey on Oct. 23, 1945, was an agreement to play for the Montreal Royals, the Dodgers' top farm club. The ...
Minority Owner Robert Daly becomes Chairman [1] 4: Frank McCourt: 2004–2012: New Owner Frank McCourt becomes chairman [1] 5: Mark Walter: 2012–present: Controlling Partner of Guggenheim Baseball Management [1]
Jackie Robinson listens to Brooklyn Dodgers' owner Branch Rickey as Robinson signs a contract for $35,000 in 1950. This contract made him the highest paid player in Dodgers' history.
Reinsdorf was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York. [4] [5] He attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, [6] and is the son of a sewing machine salesman.[7] [8] Reinsdorf was in the stands the day Jackie Robinson debuted for the Brooklyn Dodgers, "breaking the color barrier" as the first black player permitted by white ownership.
Jackie Robinson’s debut for the Dodgers marked the breaking of the “color line” in modern major league baseball, the same color line within professional baseball that had been broken in 1884 ...
Jackie Robinson Day is a traditional event which occurs annually on April 15 in Major League Baseball (MLB), commemorating and honoring the day Jackie Robinson made his major league debut. Celebrated at MLB ballparks , on that one day, all players, coaches, and managers on both teams, and the umpires, wear Robinson's uniform number , 42.