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Wesley Branch Rickey (December 20, 1881 – December 9, 1965) was an American baseball player and sports executive. Rickey was instrumental in breaking Major League Baseball's color barrier by signing black player Jackie Robinson.
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.
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 1945, Brooklyn Dodgers owner Branch Rickey meets with Harold Parott and scout Clyde Sukeforth in the office of his baseball club, saying he wants to recruit a black baseball player for his team. Reviewing potential candidates, Rickey suggests Jackie Robinson of the Negro league's Kansas City Monarchs. Meanwhile, Robinson has an incident at a ...
Rickey signed Jackie Robinson, who never played in the USL, in October of that year. The 1946 season lasted a few weeks before the league folded. The next year, Robinson broke the Major League color line with Rickey's Brooklyn Dodgers.
Two years earlier, in 1945, Brooklyn Dodgers President Branch Rickey signed Robinson to a minor league contract, after Robinson played a single season in the Negro Leagues.
On October 23, 1945, two members of the Brooklyn National League Baseball Club Inc. Board of Directors, Montreal Royals owner and team president, Hector Racine, and Brooklyn Dodgers general manager, Branch Rickey, signed Jackie Robinson, an African-American. [6] [7] Robinson played with the Royals during the 1946 season. John Wright and Roy ...