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Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything—even spikes on a new pair of shoes—but they will eventually... they are bound to.
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Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
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Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.
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Born:
December 20, 1881
Died:
December 9, 1965
(aged 83)
Bio:
Wesley Branch Rickey was an innovative Major League Baseball executive elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1967.
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