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For nearly a century, MLB scouts used the 60-yard dash to evaluate foot speed. Here's why that’s...
Yahoo Sports via AOL· 5 hours ago“Rickey was a strong advocate for the universality of speed and emphasized the speed tool as being...
Story behind first segregated professional baseball team and its ties to South Florida
Palm Beach Post via Yahoo Sports· 3 days agoIn 1946, one year before Jackie Robinson's debut, Branch Rickey hired Fred and Ray Dobens to run the...
The complicated legacy of Birmingham’s white baseball legends: Ben Chapman
Birmingham News· 4 days agoAs part of Major League Baseball’s upcoming event at Rickwood Field, AL.com and The Birmingham News...
3 movies that filmed at Birmingham's historic Rickwood Field
Birmingham News· 3 days agoThe giants of the game -- from Satchel Paige to Willie Mays to Reggie Jackson -- played ball at...
Dodgers notes: Shohei Ohtani’s swing, Walter O’Malley archive in Hall of Fame
True Blue LA· 7 days agoA closer look at a specific aspect of Shohei Ohtani’s swing. Plus an extensive archive of former...
Willie Mays, baseball’s electrifying ‘Say Hey Kid,’ dies at 93 | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Honolulu Star-Advertiser· 4 days agoWillie Mays opened his big-league career with a confidence-rattling 0-for-12 stretch before finally...
Willie Mays, Baseball’s Electrifying Player of Power and Grace, Is Dead at 93
New York Times· 3 days agoWillie Mays, the spirited center fielder whose brilliance at the plate, in the field and on the...
Willie Mays obituary: SF Giants legend known as the “Say Hey Kid” dies at age 93
San Jose Mercury News· 3 days agoWillie Mays, the incandescent Giants outfielder and a symbol of baseball’s golden age, died Tuesday....
Yankees allow Red Sox to steal the night away as AL East lead over Orioles tightens
The Bergen Record via Yahoo Sports· 5 days agoTheir catcher that day was none other than Branch Rickey, who’d reach the Hall of Fame as an...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 4 days agoWhen Jackie Robinson was the first Black baseball player to break the color barrier and play for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, Dodgers executive Branch Rickey< ...