Branch Rickey papers

LC control no.	mm 82037820
Type of material	Archival Manuscript/Mixed Formats (Collection)
Personal name	Rickey, Branch, 1881-1965. » More like this
Main title	Branch Rickey papers, 1890-1969 (bulk 1936-1965)
Description	29,400 items. 87 containers plus 4 oversize. 34.2 linear feet.
Access advisory	Open to research.
Invalid LCCN	su 82037820
Biography/History note	Major league baseball player, manager, and executive. Full name: Wesley Branch Rickey.
Summary	Correspondence, family papers, speeches and writings, memoranda, scouting and other reports, notes, subject files, scrapbooks, 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.
Notes	Photographs: transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Collection material in English. MSS37820
Finding aids	Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998023>
Acquisition source	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.
Additional formats	Microfilm edition of scrapbooks available, no. 22,326. Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 2001.
Subjects	Aaron, Hank, 1934- » More like this Barber, Red, 1908---Correspondence. » More like this Brock, Lou, 1939- » More like this Brown, Joe L.--Correspondence. » More like this Campanella, Roy, 1921-1993--Correspondence. » More like this Carey, Archibald J.--Correspondence. » More like this Carlton, Steve, 1944- » More like this Carroll, Louis F. (Louis Francis), 1905-1971--Correspondence. » More like this Clemente, Roberto, 1934-1972. » More like this Cobb, Robert H.--Correspondence. » More like this Colbert, Lester L.--Correspondence. » More like this Cooke, Jack Kent--Correspondence. » More like this Crosby, Bing, 1903-1977--Correspondence. » More like this Cuff, Thomas J. (Thomas Joseph), b. 1890--Correspondence. » More like this Daley, Arthur, 1904-1974--Correspondence. » More like this Dean, Dizzy, 1910-1974. » More like this Drysdale, Don. » More like this Durocher, Leo, 1906-1991--Correspondence. » More like this Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969--Correspondence. » More like this Eldridge, Clarence E.--Correspondence. » More like this Flood, Curt, 1938- » More like this Galbreath, John W. (John Wilmer), b. 1897--Correspondence. » More like this Gibson, Bob, 1935- » More like this Haak, Howie--Correspondence. » More like this Harper, Blake, d. 1950--Correspondence. » More like this Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964--Correspondence. » More like this Hornsby, Rogers, 1896-1963--Correspondence. » More like this Howsam, Robert L.--Correspondence. » More like this Kelchner, Charles S.--Correspondence. » More like this Koufax, Sandy, 1935- » More like this La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry), 1882-1947--Correspondence. » More like this Landis, Kenesaw Mountain, 1866-1944--Correspondence. » More like this Landon, Alfred M. (Alfred Mossman), 1887-1987--Correspondence. » More like this MacPhail, Lee--Correspondence. » More like this Mann, Arthur (Arthur William), 1901---Correspondence. » More like this Matthews, W. C.--Correspondence. » More like this Mays, Willie, 1931- » More like this Mazeroski, Bill. » More like this McCracken, G. Herbert--Correspondence. » More like this Murrow, Edward R.--Correspondence. » More like this Musial, Stan, 1920-2013. » More like this O'Malley, Walter F. (Walter Frank), 1903-1979--Correspondence. » More like this Ornest, Harry--Correspondence. » More like this Peale, Norman Vincent, 1898-1993--Correspondence. » More like this Persons, C. E.--Correspondence. » More like this Reese, Pee Wee, 1919---Correspondence. » More like this Rickey, Branch, 1914-1961--Correspondence. » More like this Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972. » More like this Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972--Correspondence. » More like this Roettger, Harold G.--Correspondence. » More like this Rooney, Art, 1901-1988--Correspondence. » More like this Rose, Pete, 1941- » More like this Shea, Walter A., 1907---Correspondence. » More like this Silvey, George--Correspondence. » More like this Sisler, George, 1893-1973--Correspondence. » More like this Spink, J. G. Taylor (John George Taylor), b. 1888--Correspondence. » More like this Thornburg, Raymond--Correspondence. » More like this Trautman, George M.--Correspondence. » More like this Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) » More like this Delta Tau Delta Fraternity. » More like this Fellowship of Christian Athletes. » More like this Ohio Wesleyan University. » More like this Pittsburgh Pirates (Baseball team) » More like this St. Louis Cardinals (Baseball team) » More like this United States. President's Committee on Government Employment Policy. » More like this African American baseball players. » More like this Baseball. » More like this Baseball players--United States. » More like this Baseball teams. » More like this Bonds. » More like this Minor league baseball. » More like this World War, 1939-1945--Finance--United States. » More like this Young Men's Christian associations. » More like this Baseball executives. Baseball managers. Baseball players.
Local shelving no.	0451G Oversize 0116A Microfilm 22,326-2N-2P
Repository	Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home>
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