{"id":153093,"date":"2022-12-21T12:49:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T20:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=153093"},"modified":"2022-12-21T12:49:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T20:49:35","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-branch-rickey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=153093","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from Branch Rickey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I&#8217;d want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I&#8217;d want to be the best at whatever I do.&#8221; ~ Wesley Branch Rickey December 20, 1881 \u2013 December 9, 1965<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.&#8221; ~ Wesley Branch Rickey December 20, 1881 \u2013 December 9, 1965<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.&#8221; ~ Wesley Branch Rickey December 20, 1881 \u2013 December 9, 1965<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.&#8221; ~ Wesley Branch Rickey December 20, 1881 \u2013 December 9, 1965<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day.&#8221; ~ Wesley Branch Rickey December 20, 1881 \u2013 December 9, 1965<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.&#8221; ~ Wesley Branch Rickey December 20, 1881 \u2013 December 9, 1965 <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Luck is the residue of design.&#8221; ~ Wesley Branch Rickey December 20, 1881 \u2013 December 9, 1965<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Branch_Rickey\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/220px-Branch_Rickey_1912.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"239\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-153094\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I&#8217;d want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I&#8217;d want to be the best at whatever I do.&#8221; ~ Wesley Branch Rickey December 20, 1881 \u2013 December 9, 1965 &#8220;Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/220px-Branch_Rickey_1912.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153095,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153093\/revisions\/153095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/153094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}