Collection Manuscript/Mixed Material Software, E-Resource Branch Rickey papers, By the People transcription campaign title : Branch Rickey : Changing the Game

Title

• Branch Rickey papers,

Other Title

• By the People transcription campaign title : Branch Rickey : Changing the Game

Summary

• Correspondence, family papers, speeches and writings, memoranda, scouting and other reports, notes, subject files, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers documenting Rickey's career as a major league baseball manager and executive. Also documents his contributions to the sport such as the minor league farm team system, signing Jackie Robinson as the first African American player to a major league contract, and developing the St. Louis Cardinals, Brooklyn Dodgers, and Pittsburgh Pirates into pennant winning clubs. Includes evaluations of players Hank Aaron, Lou Brock, Steve Carlton, Roberto Clemente, Dizzy Dean, Don Drysdale, Curt Flood, Bob Gibson, Sandy Koufax, Willie Mays, Bill Mazeroski, Stan Musial, and Pete Rose. Other topics include Rickey's affiliations with Delta Tau Delta Fraternity, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Ohio Wesleyan University, U.S. President's Committee on Government Employment Policy, and Young Men's Christian associations; bond drive work during World War II; and his family and personal life.
• Correspondents include Red Barber, Joe L. Brown, Roy Campanella, Archibald J. Carey, Louis F. Carroll, Robert H. Cobb, Lester L. Colbert, Jack Kent Cooke, Bing Crosby, Thomas J. Cuff, Arthur Daley, Leo Durocher, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Clarence E. Eldridge, John W. Galbreath, Howie Haak, Blake Harper, Herbert Hoover, Rogers Hornsby, Robert L. Howsam, Charles S. Kelchner, Ralph Kiner, Fiorello H. La Guardia, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Alfred M. Landon, Lee MacPhail, Arthur Mann, W. C. Matthews, G. Herbert McCracken, Edward R. Murrow, Walter F. O'Malley, Harry Ornest, Norman Vincent Peale, C.E. Persons, Pee Wee Reese, Branch Rickey, Jr., Jackie Robinson, Harold J. Roettger, Art Rooney, Walter A. Shea, George Sisler, George Silvey, J.G. Taylor Spink, William A. Shea, Raymond Thornburg, and George M. Trautman.

Names

• Rickey, Branch, 1881-1965

Headings

• -  Aaron, Hank,--1934-2021
• -  Barber, Red,--1908-1992--Correspondence
• -  Brock, Lou,--1939-2020
• -  Brown, Joe L.--Correspondence
• -  Campanella, Roy,--1921-1993--Correspondence
• -  Carey, Archibald J.--Correspondence
• -  Carlton, Steve,--1944
• -  Carroll, Louis F.--(Louis Francis),--1905-1971--Correspondence
• -  Clemente, Roberto,--1934-1972
• -  Cobb, Robert H.--Correspondence
• -  Colbert, Lester L.--Correspondence
• -  Cooke, Jack Kent--Correspondence
• -  Crosby, Bing,--1903-1977--Correspondence
• -  Cuff, Thomas J.--(Thomas Joseph),--18901953--Correspondence
• -  Daley, Arthur,--1904-1974--Correspondence
• -  Dean, Dizzy,--1910-1974
• -  Drysdale, Don
• -  Durocher, Leo,--1905-1991--Correspondence
• -  Eisenhower, Dwight D.--(Dwight David),--1890-1969--Correspondence
• -  Eldridge, Clarence E.--Correspondence
• -  Flood, Curt,--1938-1997
• -  Galbreath, John W.--(John Wilmer),--1897-1988--Correspondence
• -  Gibson, Bob,--1935-2020
• -  Haak, Howie--Correspondence
• -  Harper, Blake,---1950--Correspondence
• -  Hoover, Herbert,--1874-1964--Correspondence
• -  Hornsby, Rogers,--1896-1963--Correspondence
• -  Howsam, Robert L.--Correspondence
• -  Kelchner, Charles S.--Correspondence
• -  Koufax, Sandy,--1935
• -  La Guardia, Fiorello H.--(Fiorello Henry),--1882-1947--Correspondence
• -  Landis, Kenesaw Mountain,--1866-1944--Correspondence
• -  Landon, Alfred M.--(Alfred Mossman),--1887-1987--Correspondence
• -  MacPhail, Lee--Correspondence
• -  Mann, Arthur--(Arthur William),--1901-1963--Correspondence
• -  Matthews, W. C.--Correspondence
• -  Mays, Willie,--1931-2024
• -  Mazeroski, Bill
• -  McCracken, G. Herbert--Correspondence
• -  Murrow, Edward R.--Correspondence
• -  Musial, Stan,--1920-2013
• -  O'Malley, Walter,--1903-1979--Correspondence
• -  Ornest, Harry--Correspondence
• -  Peale, Norman Vincent,--1898-1993--Correspondence
• -  Persons, C. E.--Correspondence
• -  Reese, Pee Wee,--1918-1999--Correspondence
• -  Rickey, Branch,--1914-1961--Correspondence
• -  Robinson, Jackie,--1919-1972
• -  Robinson, Jackie,--1919-1972--Correspondence
• -  Roettger, Harold G.--Correspondence
• -  Rooney, Art,--1901-1988--Correspondence
• -  Rose, Pete,--1941-2024
• -  Shea, Walter A.,--1907-1991--Correspondence
• -  Silvey, George--Correspondence
• -  Sisler, George,--1893-1973--Correspondence
• -  Spink, J. G. Taylor--(John George Taylor),--1888-1962--Correspondence
• -  Thornburg, Raymond--Correspondence
• -  Trautman, George M.--Correspondence
• -  Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)
• -  Delta Tau Delta Fraternity
• -  Fellowship of Christian Athletes
• -  Ohio Wesleyan University
• -  Pittsburgh Pirates (Baseball team)
• -  St. Louis Cardinals (Baseball team)
• -  United States.--President's Committee on Government Employment Policy
• -  African American baseball players
• -  Baseball
• -  Baseball players--United States
• -  Baseball teams
• -  Bonds
• -  Minor league baseball
• -  World War, 1939-1945--Finance--United States
• -  Young Men's Christian associations

Notes

• -  Arranged in eight series. Series 1: Family Papers, 1890-1969; Series 2: Correspondence, 1900-1965; Series 3: Baseball File, 1906-1971; Series 4: Subject File, 1905-1965; Series 5: Speeches and Writings File, 1922-1965; Series 6: Miscellany, 1901-1967; Series 7: Material Removed from Scrapbooks after Microfilming, 1926-1967; and Series 8: Addition, 1960-1962.
• -  Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container or reel number, Branch Rickey Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
• -  Scouting reports from the Baseball File series, Branch Rickey papers, available through the Library of Congress website at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000069
• -  Microfilm edition only of scrapbooks available, no. 22,326.
• -  Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 2001.
• -  Gift, Sue Rickey Adams, Mary Rickey Eckler, Alice Rickey Jakle, Jane Rickey Jones, Elizabeth Rickey Wolfe, and Mary Rickey, 1972-1980.
• -  Gift, Wheelock Whitney, 1999.
• -  Related datasets: Transcription datasets from the Branch Rickey Papers, Manuscript Division. Available on the Library of Congress website.
• -  Photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
• -  Major league baseball player, manager, and executive. Full name: Wesley Branch Rickey.
• -  Collection material in English.
• -  Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998023

Medium

• 29,400 items.
• 87 containers.
• 2 microfilm reels.
• 34.4 linear feet.

Repository

• Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcdatasets.2019667234_v3
• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcdatasets.2019667234_v2
• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcdatasets.2019667234_v1

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2019667234

Access Advisory

• Open to research.

Online Format

• compressed data

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2019667234

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