Wesley Branch Rickey

Books

Barber, Red. 1947: When All Hell Broke Loose in Baseball. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1982.

Burk, Robert F. Much More Than a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball Since 1921. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Chalberg, John C. Rickey and Robinson: The Preacher, the Player, and America's Game. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 2000.

Cohen, Stanley. Dodgers! The First 100 Years. New York: Carol Publishing Group, 1990.

Dictionary of American Biography: Supplement Seven, 1961-1965. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1981.

Dorinson, Joseph, and Joram Warmund, Eds. Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports, and the American Dream. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1998.

Frommer, Harvey. Rickey and Robinson: The Men Who Broke Baseball's Color Barrier. New York: Macmillan, 1982Golenbock, Peter. The Spirit of St. Louis: A History of the St. Louis Cardinals and Browns. New York: HarperCollins, 2000, 1995.

Helyar, John. Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball. New York: Villard Books, 1994.

Herzog, Brad. The Sports 100: The One Hundred Most Important People in American Sports History. New York: Macmillan, 1995.

Honig, Donald. Baseball America: The Heroes of the Game and the Times of Their Glory. New York: Macmillan, 1985.

Lieb, Frederick G. The St. Louis Cardinals: The Story of a Great Baseball Club. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1944.

Mann, Arthur. Branch Rickey: American in Action. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957.

Martinez, David H. The Book of Baseball Literacy. New York: Penguin, 1996.

Monteleone, John J., ed. Branch Rickey's Little Blue Book: Wit and Strategy from Baseball's Last Wise Man. New York: Macmillan, 1995.

Obojski, Robert. Bush League: A History of Minor League Baseball. New York: Macmillan, 1975.

O'Toole, Andrew. Branch Rickey in Pittsburgh: Baseball's Trailblazing General Manager for the Pirates, 1950-1955. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2000.

Parrott, Harold. The Lords of Baseball: A Wry Look at a Side of the Game the Fan Seldom Sees—the Front Office. New York: Praeger, 1976.

Polner, Murray. Branch Rickey: A Biography. New York: Atheneum, 1982.

Rampersad, Arnold. Jackie Robinson: A Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

Skipper, John C. A Biographical Dictionary of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2000.

Stockton, J. Roy. The Gashouse Gang and a Couple of Other Guys. New York: A. S. Barnes, 1945.

Sullivan. Neil J. The Dodgers Move West. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Tygiel, Jules. Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997

Tygiel, Jules, Ed. The Jackie Robinson Reader: Perspectives on an American Hero. New York: Dutton, 1997.

Voigt, David Quentin. American Baseball, Volume II: From the Commissioners to Continental Expansion. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970.

Periodicals

"Branch Rickey, 83, Dies in Missouri." New York Times (December 10, 1965): 1.

Dexter, Charles. "Brooklyn's Sturdy Branch." Collier's (September 15, 1945): 116.

Graham, Frank, Jr. "Branch Rickey Rides Again: The Return of the Mahatma." Saturday Evening Post (March 9, 1963): 66-68.

Other

"Baseball Library.com: Branch Rickey." http://www.pubdim.net/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/R/Rickey_Branch.stm (November 30, 2002).

"the BASEBALL page.com: Branch Rickey." http://www.thebaseballpage.com/past/pp/rickeybranch/default.htm (November 30, 2002).

"BrainyQuote: Branch Rickey." http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/a125843.html (November 30, 2002).

"Breaking the Color Line: 1940-1946.#x201D; http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/jrhtml/jr1940.html (December 16, 2002).

"A Jackie Robinson Society Exclusive Interview with Branch B. Rickey [grandson of Branch Rickey]." http://www.utexas.edu/students/jackie/robinson/rickey.html (November 30, 2002).

The Jackie Robinson Story [film]. Dir. Alfred E. Green. Perf. Jackie Robinson, Ruby Dee, Minor Watson, Louise Beavers, Richard Lane. MGM, 1950.

Lurie, Mike. "Rickey As Much a Pioneer As Robinson." CBS SportsLine, May 28, 1997. http://cbs.sportsline.com/u/baseball/robinson/notes/luriem52897.htm (December 16, 2002).

"National Baseball Hall of Fame: Branch Rickey." http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/rickey_branch.htm (November 30, 2002).

Pappas, Doug. "Only four GMs in Hall of Fame." ESPN.com. June 26, 2002. http://espn.go.com/mlb/columns/bp/1399247.html (December 7, 2002).

Transcript of interview with Branch Rickey by Davis J. Walsh [1955?]. Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Branch Rickey Papers. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/jrhtml/davis.html (November 30, 2002).

West, Jean. "Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson (Interview Essay)," by Jean West. http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/resources/pdf/hs_in_robinson_rickey.pdf (November 30, 2002).