The 2013 movie “42” was nearly as much about how Branch Rickey transformed baseball as it was Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier. Rickey was the one who signed Robinson, who made his ...

MLB executive Branch Rickey is the man credited with bringing Jackie Robinson into the Major Leagues. In a new book, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author Jimmy Breslin explores how Rickey ...

We correctly celebrate his story. But what compelled the man who signed Robinson—Branch Rickey—to integrate the game he loved? When he accepted the job as general manager and president of a ...

“Mr. Rickey, if I could just rub this color off me, I’d be as good as any man.’’ Those tearful words were spoken by Charles Thomas, the lone African-American player on coach Branch Rickey ...

"Of course the Emancipation Proclamation by Lincoln made the southern Negro slave free," Branch Rickey said in 1956, "but it never did make the white man morally free. He remained a slave to his ...

The actor, who has starred as Han Solo and Indiana Jones, took on the role of wily baseball executive Branch Rickey in the upcoming film, 42. The film recounts Jackie Robinson's rise as the first ...

Branch Rickey, right, president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, puts his arm around his team's captain, Pee Wee Reese. Rickey helped break baseball's color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson to the Dodgers.

Providing viewpoint from inside the family, Branch Rickey III gives the movie “42” a 10. Rickey III is the grandson of Branch Rickey, one of the important characters in the movie as the man ...

Sheesh—how much would Robinson make now? He and club owner Branch Rickey had become very close in the three seasons since Robinson broke big league baseball’s color barrier in 1947.

It's that time of year for baseball fans. Spring training ends, and a new Major League Baseball season begins. For the 26,000-plus Brooklyn Dodger diehards gathered at their home opener on April ...

By Jon Meacham It may not make sense to outsiders, but Branch Rickey’s quirky 20 to 80 scale for judging players’ skills remains the lingua franca in the major leagues. By Tyler Kepner Dan ...