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jay, December 10, 1968 ____, SRA TO, ts ~The Mahatma Of Baseball | Branch Rickey, 84, Dead By HUELL E. WARREN Jr. COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP)- Branch Rickey, the front office genius who remade baseball over a Span of 50 years, died Thursday night after lingering 26 days in a coma which over- took him while he was talking about courage. Rickey had told a story of physical courage as he acknowledged his induction into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame Nov, 13. "Now I'm going to tell you a story from' the Bible about spiritual courage," he said. But he faltered, fell back into his seat and slipped to the floor. He never regained conscious- ness. His brain was damaged when his breathing stopped in Ohio and Mrs. Stephen Adams, one of their five daughters, had just left the hos- pital Thursday before he died. Rickey had a heart attack, as long ago as 1958 and left a hos- pital in St. Louis to attend the Hall of Fame ceremony in Co- lumbia. He had. been running a temperature up to 105 and was supposed to return to the hos- pital in St. Louis for further study to determine the cause. He devised the farm system jand raised the St. Louis Car- Idinals from rags to World Se- lries riches. He broke the major leagues' unwritten color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson into the Brooklyn organization in 1945 and put him on first for the Dodgers in 1947. momentarily and he fell into a| 'He was like a piece of mo- coma, He would have been 84 onjhimself and his advice in the|1949 as part-owner. The Dodg-|Many of the developing™toun- Dec. 20. Mrs. Rickey, who had been his grammar school sweetheart' Baseball men called Rickey's) for $1,000,000. At 69, he signed|namese negotiations than with! Rickey Had bile armor, and he would throw way of anything likely to hurt jme," Robinson said. The Courage To Put Negro In Majors COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- Injitable. What Rickey wanted|kees in the Series. all of the late Branch Rickey's 84 years no day probably was/ example for his race as well as|joined the Cardinals. as important as April 10, 1947 --the day Rickey chose to poke his finger through a sociological barrier and announced was a Negro who would be an an outstanding ball player. Two scouts made separate re- ports to Rickey and both came that|up with the same name: Jackie/Ohio, Brooklyn Dodgers had pur- Robinson. chased Jackie Robinson. The ramifications were far-|1945, scout Clyde Sukeforth ap-jof the |proached Robinson in a Negrojdirector of athletics and base-| By making the announcement | hotel in Chicago and informed|ball coach at Allegheney Col- of Robinson's purchase from|him that Rickey wanted to seejlege. He studied law at reaching. Then, one day in August, Montreal Royals of the Interna-) him. tional League, Rickey had tapped Robinson as the first Negro player to enter base-jnot just making a gesture,"|yor_ Americans, the Browns | tic ataak ball's major leagues, "The American public," saidjsure that Rickey was in earn-lanq 1907, when his arm went! : Rickey, "is not as concerned|nest, I could not go into it, no|,aq and 13 runners stole bases|@ve been weighed in the Krem- with a first baseman's pigmen-|matter what he offered me for/on him in one game. tation as it is with the power of his swing, the dexterity of} his slide, the gracefulness of his fielding or the speed of his! legs." Asked if Robinson had been brought up to solve a sociolog- {eal problem, Rickey said: "I brought him up for one reason: To win the pennant. I'd) play an elephant with pink horns if he could win the pen-| nant." | MAKES SEARCH | Rickey started his search} long before 1947 when he -de- cided that the breaking of the color line in baseball was inev- "It took me a long time to convince myself that he was said Robinson. 'Until I was signing a contract." Robinson was signed to a con- tract with the Dodgers' Mont- real farm club--becoming the first Negro in organized base- ball. Robinson later pointedly told # how important Rickey had been to him. "One of the biggest factors in my success has been the en- couragement of Mr. Rickey," |he said. "Mr. Rickey was like a piece of mobile armor and he would} throw himself and his advice in| the way of anything likely to hurt me." By HAROLD MORRISON Canadian Press Staff Writer farm system a chain gang, but One of the illuminating as- Rickey contended it saved base-\Pects of the Kremlin shake-up ball. is that Premier Alexei Kosygin Rickey joined the Cardinals er ec wa -- in 1917 after almost four years]; Ponts i Lage Be. : cmanezer of Stes NO Wtcn ee now Ce rione but he put in two|Plays a stiffer line against the ears-in the army before he| Vest would indicate the domes- ee up the reins as manager. tic political situation is well un- He moved entirely into the| 4% control. é : front office in 1925. In 1926, the| The quiet industrial technican Cardinals won their first pen-|WhO inherited the seat of the nant and the Wédrld Series, volatile and unpredictable Nikita One Result Of Red Shuffle"Ar™ | Kosygin In Stronger Spot |* ristmas | dent Johnson's gall bladder op- eration, combined with his heart condition, may have reducéd his effectiveness as a world leader, forcing him to lean more on others who may not carry the same stature as the president. The other is increasing Soviet suspicion that somehow the U.S. is working behind the scenes to arm West Germany with nu- clear power despite public as- surances that Germany's nu- clear ambitions are being con- favorites. BOOTS SHOES The Cardinals won seven pen- nants and five world champion- Khrushchev has gradually de-|tained, even in development of veloped into a world tactician,|the fipe-power North Atlantic sensitive to the view that per- haps a good part of the world is not keen on accepting the Anglo - American argument on Viet Nam or on the white-black crisis in Africa. | In some respects, President Johnson's policies have pro- Rickey moved to Brooklyn induced a diplomatic vacuum. ships as Rickey plumbed the talents of such as Dizzy Dean and his brother Paul, Pepper Martin, Joe Medwick, Leo Durocher, Frank Frisch and Jim Bottomley. MOVES TO BROOKLYN \19 4 jers picked up two pennants in|tries appear less impressed with eight years before he sold out|his offer of unconditional Viet- lon as general manager of the|the reflection of the terrific last-place Pittsburgh Pirates. |pounding U.S. planes are de- In five years he could not|!ivering in seemingly unpro- lift them and bowed out: but tected North Viet Nam. lfive years later, in 1960, his} Combine that with reports of work bore fruit. The Pirates|how the primitive Viet Con are |won their first pennant in, 33}daily slaughtering Vietnamese years and beat New York Mgn- and U.S. forces: in South Viet! Nam--despite the huge tech- Rickey was 81 when he re-| nological advantages of the He quit) West--and many countries could after they won the world cham-| Well begin to wonder whether Ipionship in 1964. |China is right in saying that at He was born at Stockdale, | /¢2st on the ground the U.S. is taught schoo] for two nothing more than a paper lyears, worked his way through} . si ss |Ohio Wesleyan University, part|":§ ON DEFENSIVE? time by working. asi, e contention that the U.S. - jis on the defensive in arguing its Viet Nam position in the Ohio | Curt. of world opinion cannot {State and Michigan, coaching|°* dismissed in attempting to baseball on the side. judge why, at this particular | He was a catcher for New time, Kosygin has chosen to § - launch a strong, uncharacteris- against U.S. policies. Two other elements may also jand Cincinnati between 1904 lin. One is the fact that Presi- He practiced law a year in Boise, Idaho,. but was back at |baseball within a year as a | Starts Sat., Dec, 11th lor the Browns THE. MIRACLES OF CHRISTMAS | by John J. Stewart NEW in OSHAWA WHITE-ELNA SEWING CENTRE 38 Bond West 725-7181 . » « ON inspiring special series of 12 articles retelling 12 stories from the Bible thot reveal the true meaning of Christmos. Your whole family will enjoy this rich experience in reading. Don't miss a single instalment of this outstonding special feature, The Oshawa Times Samantha Eggar's Bathing Confined To Off-Stage Now --AND-- subcommittee on deployment of nuclear strategy. The Soviet Union wants to see the alliance broken up and West . Germany neutralized. It wants to see the United States pushed out of Europe and out of Asia. The French threat fo walk out of NATO may have given the Kremlin heart but this in turn| --FROM-- may have led to dismay at the! sight of the rise of German| power. 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