Of all the great stories in baseball history, on of the greatest is the story of Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson. Rickey began his career as a player, but he spent most of his career as a team manger and a company executive. While working for the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1920s and 1930s, one of the changes he developed was the major league “farm system.” This is where young players would train before appearing in the major leagues. Perhaps he was best known for signing Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1945. During that times, there were no black players on any of the major league teams. So Ricky looked for a proud, tough, and excellent black player to add his lineup. He found that in Jackie Robinson. Robinson knew it would be
