Branch Rickey Quotes
Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
Lowenfish, Lee. Branch Rickey: Baseball's Ferocious Gentleman. University of Nebraska Press, 2007, p. 15.
The cartoon—see image—depicts a virulently anti-Semitic Jewish Satan trodding on the skulls and bones of Jewish victims. This newspaper and most of those of the Arab Muslim world constantly run such anti-Semitic material and then complain about the insensitivity of a single Danish newspaper that ran cartoons that were insulting to Muslims.
Wesley Branch Rickey was an American baseball player and sports executive. Rickey was instrumental in breaking Major League Baseball's color barrier by signing black player Jackie Robinson. He also created the framework for the modern minor league farm system, encouraged the Major Leagues to add new teams through his involvement in the proposed Continental League, and introduced the batting helmet. He was posthumously elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1967.
