On Jan. 29, 1988, Kirk Gibson signed a three-year contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers just one week after he was among seven players to be granted free agency by an arbitrator who ruled MLB team ...

Los Angeles Dodgers prospect Dalton Rushing was named the 2024 Branch Rickey Minor League Player of the Year. Jackson Ferris was named the organization’s Minor League Pitcher of the Year for this ...

Branch Rickey knew his intentions. He, the former general manager of the St. Louis Cardinals who’d created a dynasty featuring stars like Dizzy Dean and Stan Musial, wanted to replicate his success.

As baseball celebrates Jackie Robinson Day, a look at how his signing led to the dismantling of the Negro leagues, with only one M.L.B. owner speaking up for their rights. By Andrea Williams Books by ...

BOSTON, MA - APRIL 15: Members of the Boston Red Sox display the number 42 in recognition of Jackie Robinson Day as starting lineups are introduced before the 2022 Opening Day game against the ...

1910 — Philadelphia’s Jack Coombs won his third game of the World Series, beating the Chicago Cubs 7-2 as the Athletics took the championship in five games. Eddie Collins had three hits, including two ...

The reason the St. Louis Cardinals give night sweats to managers of other National League clubs is Branch Rickey, a chunky, bespectacled David Harumish man of 60, who is referred to with awed hush in ...

The cool of night had descended on Ebbets Field; it was only 94° in the dusk. In a box on the 50-yard line sat old Branch Rickey, in his shirtsleeves, peering disconsolately at the half-empty house ...

According to the Associated Press, Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo has won the 2014 Branch Rickey Award for his community work with pediatric cancer patients. The Branch Rickey Award, which was ...