tailieunhanh - Branch Rickey Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman

“Do you think you can run me out of my job?” schoolteacher Branch Rickey bellowed at a scowling student, squeezing hard on the defi ant youngster’s shoulder blades. “Well, you just can’t do it. I need the money, I need the job, so sit down!” It was early in the fall of 1899, and the notoriously tough students in Turkey Creek in Scioto County were living up to their reputation as incorrigible and uneducable. The post offi ce address of Turkey Creek might be Friendship, Ohio, but the name was quite ironic. The sons of Turkey Creek’s loggers, farmers, and moonshiners had spat upon, physically attacked, and run.