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Branch Rickey taking no credit for what happened in ‘47

by Rob Neyer

I began to type a transcript of this interview, but then I realized it’s better if we just watch and listen ...


The text merely says this interview happened sometime in the mid-‘60s, but SABR member BW Radley has figured that it must have been on Labor Day in 1963, between games of a doubleheader at Wrigley Field. Specifically, just before this game.

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