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 ...

Some know Branch Rickey, the general manager and president of the Brooklyn Dodgers team that Robinson played for, as a race trailblazer too. What most Americans don't know is that both men were ...

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.

How the famed executive who signed Jackie Robinson found renewed hope in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. On a summer night in 1956 at a camp center in the mountains near Estes Park, Colorado ...

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 ...

Branch Rickey is a Major League team executive with a bold idea. To that end, Rickey recruits Robinson to break the unspoken color line as the first modern African American Major League player.

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 ...