June 15th used to be the big trading deadline in baseball and as usual Branch Rickey was in the middle of a big innovation. In 1922 Rickey’s Cardinals and the St. Louis Browns who shared the home field of Sportsman’s Park were in first place near the end of July for the first Read More
RICKEY BEING RICKEY: THOUGHTS ON HENDERSON AND BRANCH
June 11, 2009
When I started working on my biography of Branch Rickey in the late 1990s, some people thought I was writing about Rickey Henderson, the all-time base stealing champion and one of the most effective leadoff hitters in baseball history. On the last Sunday of next month Read More