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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]
Branch Rickey - The President and General Manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers and an advocate of breaking the "color line" in professional sports; Jackie Robinson - Infielder for the Montreal Royals, selected as the first African-American to integrate the Major League Baseball organization; Joe Louis - 1946 World Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Lobby card for The Jackie Robinson Story, 1950, with Minor Watson (left, playing Dodgers president Branch Rickey) and Robinson. In 1950, Robinson led the National League in double plays made by a second baseman with 133. [150] His salary that year was the highest any Dodger had been paid to that point: $35,000 ($443,237 in 2023 dollars).
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 ...
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.
Jackie Robinson Day honors the first Black player in modern baseball to take the field. ... President Branch Rickey signed Robinson to a minor league contract, after Robinson played a single ...
After thinking over Rickey's warning about the hatred and abuse he would have to endure without being able to strike back, Robinson signs with the Dodgers' International League farm team, the Montreal Royals. Though he wants to delay marrying Rae to shield her, she insists on an immediate wedding so she can support her man in the trying times ...
In the early 1920s, as a player and coach, he was the Cardinals' "Sunday manager", relieving skipper Branch Rickey, who always observed the Christian Sabbath. Rickey and Shotton had formed a longstanding friendship and professional relationship dating back to their years together (1913–15) with the Browns, when Rickey was his manager.