Branch Rickey papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 29400
Subjects: Correspondence; United States; Baseball players; Fellowship of Christian Athletes; United States. President's Committee on Government Employment Policy; African American baseball players; St. Louis Cardinals (Baseball team); Bonds; Ohio Wesleyan University; Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team); Minor league baseball; Baseball teams; Baseball; Finance; World War, 1939-1945; Pittsburgh Pirates (Baseball team); Delta Tau Delta Fraternity; Young Men's Christian associations
Description: Correspondence, family papers, speeches and writings, memoranda, scouting and other reports, notes, subject files, scrapbooks, and other papers documenting Rickey's career as a major league baseball manager and executive.  Also documents his contributions to the sport such as the minor league farm team system, signing Jackie Robinson as the first African American player to a major league contract, and developing the St. Louis Cardinals, Brooklyn Dodgers, and Pittsburgh Pirates into pennant winning clubs.  Includes evaluations of players Hank Aaron, Lou Brock, Steve Carlton, Roberto Clemente, Dizzy Dean, Don Drysdale, Curt Flood, Bob Gibson, Sandy Koufax, Willie Mays, Bill Mazeroski, Stan Musial, and Pete Rose.  Other topics include Rickey's affiliations with Delta Tau Delta Fraternity, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Ohio Wesleyan University, U.S. President's Committee on Government Employment Policy, and Young Men's Christian associations; bond drive work during World War II; and his family and personal life.

Correspondents include Red Barber, Joe L. Brown, Roy Campanella, Archibald J. Carey, Louis F. Carroll, Robert H. Cobb, Lester L. Colbert, Jack Kent Cooke, Bing Crosby, Thomas J. Cuff, Arthur Daley, Leo Durocher, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Clarence E. Eldridge, John W. Galbreath, Howie Haak, Blake Harper, Herbert Hoover, Rogers Hornsby, Robert L. Howsam, Charles S. Kelchner, Ralph Kiner, Fiorello H. La Guardia, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Alfred M. Landon, Lee MacPhail, Arthur Mann, W. C. Matthews, G. Herbert McCracken, Edward R. Murrow, Walter F. O'Malley, Harry Ornest, Norman Vincent Peale, C. E. Persons, Pee Wee Reese, Branch Rickey, Jr., Jackie Robinson, Harold J. Roettger, Art Rooney, Walter A. Shea, George Sisler, George Silvey, J. G. Taylor Spink, William A. Shea, Raymond Thornburg, and George M. Trautman.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition of scrapbooks available, no. 22,326.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 2001.

Gift, Sue Rickey Adams, Mary Rickey Eckler, Alice Rickey Jakle, Jane Rickey Jones, Elizabeth Rickey Wolfe, and Mary Rickey, 1972-1980.

Gift, Wheelock Whitney, 1999.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Major league baseball player, manager, and executive.  Full name: Wesley Branch Rickey.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998023