MARCH 19 BASEBALL

A Look at Branch Rickey 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 has given me all that I can call my own."Republican civil rights gallantry. March 19th 1946, Look Magazine published a cover story about Branch Rickey, the Missouri Republican who hired the first African-American player for Major League Baseball. Jackie Robinson, he said, was "the right man for the job." Rickey’s office featured a picture of Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican President, known as The Great Emancipator. https://rumble.com/v6qvtf8-branch-rickey-inspired-by-abraham-lincoln-to-desegregate-major-league-baseb.html