Mahatma
Words of wisdom from baseball's greatest mind, Branch Rickey.
A baseball box score is a democratic thing. It doesn't tell how big you are, what church you attend, what color you are, or how your father voted in the last election. It just tells what kind of baseball player you were on that particular day.
Baseball people -- and that includes myself -- are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.
(Life magazine, August 2, 1954)
Fill in any figure you want for that boy. Whatever the figure, it's a deal.
-- to co-owner Dan Topping of the Yankees, spring 1951. "That boy" was Mickey Mantle.
He that will not reason is a bigot.
he that cannot reason is a fool.
He that dares not reason is a slave.
Let's not get panicky.
I did not mind the public criticism. That sort of thing has not changed any program I thought was good.
Problems are the price you pay for progress.
Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.
Time proves all things.
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