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Rickey's grandfather built dynasties with the St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers, and was best known outside of baseball for breaking the color line and admitting Dodgers star Jackie Robinson to what had been all-white baseball leagues by ' gentleman's agreement.
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The song " Train, Train ", written by Rickey's grandfather, " Shorty " Medlocke, became their first success and best known song.
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When that failed, he enlisted Branch Rickey's aid in the formation of a third major league, the Continental, with New York as the key franchise.
In addition to his well-known breaking of the color line by signing Jackie Robinson, Rickey's savvy with farm systems ( as with his prior work for the St. Louis Cardinals ) produced results that made the Brooklyn Dodgers " Bums " a perennial contender, which they would continue to be for decades to come.
However, their biggest character witness, Rickey's wife Carla, ends up hurting them on cross-examination when she acknowledges Rickey beat her and that she had an affair with Sandy.
Shotton's last connection with baseball was as a consultant for Rickey's Continental League, the planned " third major league " that ultimately forced expansion of MLB in 1961 – 62.
In mid-August 1964, with the Cardinals seemingly about to finish well behind the first-place Philadelphia Phillies, Busch fired general manager Bing Devine and replaced him with Howsam — reputedly at Rickey's urging.
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The MITS MOBILE came to Rickey's Hyatt House in Palo Alto June 5th & 6th.
In the interview, Chandler then corroborated the essentials of Rickey's story, although he placed the meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in January 1947.
It was Rickey's first managerial job.
Austin continued as Rickey's " Sunday Manager "-Rickey had promised his mother that he would not enter a ballpark on the Christian Sabbath, and therefore Austin managed the Browns on those days.
Spotted by one of Branch Rickey's scouts in the early 1940s, he was signed to a baseball contract out of high school in 1943.
Hafey would be the first major success of Rickey's expansive farm system, breaking through in 1927 when he led the National League in slugging.
In works such as Two Open Triangles Up Gyratory Rickey's two wind driven elements ( engineered to withstand winds of 80 mph ) provide an endless series of combined, almost dance like, shapes and movements.
" This conical, oblique design shows up in many of the most emblematic of George Rickey's works, where the axes of motion are surprising given the rectilinear forms of his work.
The defense puts on witness after witness attesting to Rickey's character as a black role model who overcame poverty in the inner city to become one of the most famous men in the world.
Rickey's close friend and business partner Philip Bartelme served as the Solons ' president from 1936 to 1944.
He was the bullpen catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers during 1949 and 1950, the last two years of Rickey's tenure there, then followed him to the Pittsburgh Pirates as the Buccos ' Major League bullpen coach from 1951 through 1964.
Thompson moved up the executive ladder, and survived the front-office purge that followed Branch Rickey's departure in October.
Flying immediately to Flatbush, not knowing what to expect, Shotton was ushered into Rickey's presence.
Branch Rickey, the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, remembered Roe from Rickey's time in the Cardinals ' management and engineered a trade.
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* Branch Rickey's Last Protege: Clyde King, by Jerry Green, Baseball Digest, June 1969
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While his paternal family had become prosperous early on in New York real estate and trade, much of his family's wealth had been built by FDR's maternal grandfather, Warren Delano, in the China trade, including opium and tea.
Her family lived on a homestead, Ivy Green, that Helen's grandfather had built decades earlier.
He also demonstrated a precocious talent for building, impressing his father Jahangir at the age of 16 when he built his quarters within his great grandfather the Mughal Emperor Babur's Kabul fort and redesigned buildings within Agra fort.
Upon the death of Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet in 1749, the wealth left by his grandfather, Sir George Downing, who served both Cromwell and Charles II and built 10 Downing Street ( a door formerly from Number 10 is in use in the college ), was applied by his will.
Houston's ancestry is often traced to his great-great grandfather Sir John Houston, who built a family estate in Scotland in the late seventeenth century.
Her maternal grandfather was David Greer, a RIC sergeant in Castlewellan, County Down, Ireland in the 1880s and who later became a land steward to the Annesley family ( wealthy landlords who built the town of Castlewellan ).
In the Kingdom of Sicily, he built on the reform of the laws begun at the Assizes of Ariano in 1140 by his grandfather Roger II.
His grandfather founded and built a prosperous lumber business, which his father later ran, though his father's natural talents lay more with sciences than with business.
Droste's maternal grandfather Werner Adolf von Haxthausen had remarried after the death of his first wife ( Annette's grandmother ) in 1772 and built himself a new castle, Schloss Bökerhof, in the village of Bökendorf, Paderborn.
The house is at 223 Ashland Avenue ( also known as 190 Washington Street ) built on wooded land that been owned by his grandfather, Johannes Cadmus.
This structure was built with stone quarried from the nearby Marble Cliff Quarry Co., and was once a residence of local industrialist and U. S. Senator Samuel Prescott Bush, grandfather and great-grandfather of U. S. Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush respectively.
The house was built between 1660 and 1680 by George Vernon, grandfather of George Venables-Vernon the 1st Baron Vernon and is notable for its superb Great Staircase, fine Long Gallery, and portraits by John Michael Wright, and of Charles II's mistresses.
His maternal grandparents lived in an annexe, built on the side of the house by his maternal grandfather who was a stonemason and builder.
When grandfather d ' Huart died in 1927, his family decided to found " la Société Immobilière de Stockel " and built a lane through the forest.
Although Packer's reputation as an astute businessman was legendary and he made some good investments, he was by no means a self-made man – his grandfather Robert Clyde Packer and his father Sir Frank Packer had built up the media empire and its related holdings over many decades.
Stevens was born November 18, 1923, in Indianapolis, Indiana, the third of four children, in a small cottage built by his paternal grandfather after the marriage of his parents, Gertrude S. ( née Chancellor ) and George A. Stevens.
The second Cold War destroyer built by Bath Iron Works was named for the grandfather of Republican 2008 presidential candidate John McCain | John S. McCain III.
Sathyabhama is well known locally as ' Sathyamma ' and the temple was built by Late Kondama Raju, grandfather of Sri Sathya Sai Baba.
A large tall-case clock, commonly called a grandfather clock, built in Boston by John and Thomas Seymour, c. 1795-1805, stands in the northeast portion of the room.
When his grandfather died in 1750, he inherited 200 acres ( 0. 8 km² ) known as Prospect Hill, and built his home there.
He was buried at the Val-de-Grâce convent in Paris, built by his ancestor Anne of Austria to celebrate the birth of Louis XIV of France, Louis Philippe's great grandfather.
Firestone was born on the Columbiana, Ohio farm built by his paternal grandfather.
The Blounts had gradually risen to prominence in the first half of the 18th century as William's grandfather and father had steadily built the family fortune.
Many of his props are specially built objects, such as a miniature grandfather clock necklace he used to poke fun at Flavor Flav's age.
Ashurbanipal grew up in the small palace called bit reduti ( house of succession ), built by his grandfather Sennacherib when he was crown prince in the northern quadrant of Nineveh.
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