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Game Quotes by Branch Rickey
- Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
- Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
- There was never a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than (Jackie) Robinson.
- I cannot face my God much longer knowing that his black creatures are held separate and distinct from his white creatures in the game that…
- The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.
- Baseball is a game of inches.
- A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to…
- Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was…
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