Heritage; 64; Branch Rickey. Part 3
- Series
- Heritage
- Episode Number
- 64
- Episode
- Branch Rickey. Part 3
- Producing Organization
- WQED (Television station : Pittsburgh, Pa.)
- Contributing Organization
- Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/512-w950g3j54j
- NOLA Code
- HERG
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Episodes 62 - 65 of Heritage feature Branch Rickey, baseball pioneer and humanitarian. He discusses his life with Arthur Mann, sportswriter and Rickeys biographer, and Kenneth Blackburn, Rickeys associate and secretary. Rickey describes his childhood, college days, career in law and then turns to a discussion of baseball, the game, the men and as a proving ground for civil rights and liberty. In this episode, Branch Rickey discusses one of the most famous highlights of his career: placing skill above racial and religious consideration and naming Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers. He discusses the problems faced by Robinson during the early part of his career with the Brooklyn team and indicates how this talented sportsman handled the situations which arose. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Series Description
- Through "Heritage," a selected group of prominent persons individually address themselves to broad areas of subject matter in fields where they are particularly qualified to speak. Rather than being a simple series of conventional pattern, this is a "series of series," where each guest appears on several episode in several formats (i.e. straight talk, interview, talk with small group, conversation). This series totaling 131 half-hour episodes was originally recorded on various formats including film and videotape. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Broadcast Date
- 1959-00-00
- Asset type
- Episode
- Topics
- Sports
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Credits
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Host: Rickey, Branch
Producing Organization: WQED (Television station : Pittsburgh, Pa.)
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2427586-1 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 16mm film
Generation: Copy: Access
Color: B&W
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Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive
Identifier: [request film based on title] (Indiana University)
Format: 16mm film
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Heritage; 64; Branch Rickey. Part 3,” 1959-00-00, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 30, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-w950g3j54j.
- MLA: “Heritage; 64; Branch Rickey. Part 3.” 1959-00-00. Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 30, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-w950g3j54j>.
- APA: Heritage; 64; Branch Rickey. Part 3. Boston, MA: Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-w950g3j54j