WML Project: Branch Rickey

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9/13/59 Branch Rickey, Chuck Connors, former Dodger farm hand, is a panelist. Rickey was forming the Continental League, which never came about but forced baseball expansion. (He’s the first guest.)

 

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Rickey on baseball:

 

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Rickey guests on Jackie Robinson's radio show:


Ken Burns said Rickey changed the game- twice. Actually, he changed it three times. He created the farm system, integrated the game and his advocacy of a third league created expansion.