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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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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
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Born:
December 20, 1881
Died:
December 9, 1965
(aged 83)
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Wesley Branch Rickey was an innovative Major League Baseball executive elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1967.
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