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Branch Rickey
Wesley Branch Rickey
(December 20, 1881 – December 9, 1965) was an innovative
Major League Baseball
(MLB) executive elected to the
Baseball Hall of Fame
in 1967. He was perhaps best known for breaking Major League Baseball's
color barrier
by signing
African American
player
Jackie Robinson
, for drafting the first Afro-Hispanic superstar,
Roberto Clemente
, for creating the framework for the modern
minor league
farm system
, for encouraging the Major Leagues to add new teams through his involvement in the proposed
Continental League
, and for introducing the
batting helmet
.
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