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Rickey, Branch, 1881-1965

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Rickey, Branch, 1881-1965

URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81149658
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Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Name Authority File
Collection Membership(s)
- Names Collection - Authorized Headings
- LC Names Collection - General Collection
Variants
- Rickey, Wesley Branch, 1881-1965
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
- http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC%7Cn+81149658#skos:Concept
Sources
- found: Branch Rickey, 1957
- found: Branch Rickey's little blue book, 1995: CIP introd. (Wesley Branch Rickey)
- found: Encyc. Amer., 1980 (Rickey, Branch; Amer. baseball execut.; b. Dec. 20, 1881 in Stockdale, OH; d. Dec. 9, 1965 in Columbia, MO)
- found: Wikipedia, Apr. 29, 2013 (Branch Rickey; Wesley Branch Rickey; born December 20, 1881 in Stockdale, Ohio; December 9, 1965 in Columbia, Missouri; Major League Baseball executive elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1967. He was known for breaking Major League Baseball's color barrier by signing African American player Jackie Robinson, for drafting the first Afro-Hispanic superstar, Roberto Clemente, for creating the framework for the modern minor league farm system, for encouraging the Major Leagues to add new teams through his involvement in the proposed Continental League, and for introducing the batting helmet)
Change Notes
- 1982-02-08: new
- 2013-04-29: revised

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