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Series
Heritage
Episode Number
63
Episode
Branch Rickey. Part 2
Producing Organization
WQED (Television station : Pittsburgh, Pa.)
WQED (Television station : Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Contributing Organization
WQED (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/120-311ns6j4
Public Broadcasting Service Program NOLA
HERG 000063
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 Rickey's biographer, and Kenneth Blackburn, Rickey's 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 some of the men he has known as a result of his career in baseball. With him during this discussion are sportswriter Arthur Mann, Rickey's biographer, and Kenneth Blackburn, his secretary. (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
Guest: Blackburn, Kenneth
Guest: Mann, Arthur
Host: Rickey, Branch
Host: Rickey, Branch
Producing Organization: WQED (Television station : Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Producing Organization: WQED (Television station : Pittsburgh, Pa.)
AAPB Contributor Holdings
WQED-TV
Identifier: 16889 (WQED)
Format: Digital Betacam
Duration: 00:29:21
WQED-TV
Identifier: 16890 (WQED)
Format: Digital Betacam
Duration: 00:29:38
Library of Congress
Identifier: 2427578-1 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 16mm film
Generation: Copy: Access
Color: B&W
Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive
Identifier: [request film based on title] (Indiana University)
Format: 16mm film
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Citations
Chicago: “Heritage; 63; Branch Rickey. Part 2,” 1959-00-00, WQED, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed October 11, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-120-311ns6j4.
MLA: “Heritage; 63; Branch Rickey. Part 2.” 1959-00-00. WQED, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. October 11, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-120-311ns6j4>.
APA: Heritage; 63; Branch Rickey. Part 2. Boston, MA: WQED, 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-120-311ns6j4