While giving a speech in Columbia, MO, Branch Rickey collapses and dies a few days short of his 84th birthday

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On ,December 9 1965 — While giving a speech in Columbia, MO, Branch Rickey collapses and dies a few days short of his 84th birthday. Player, manager, an extraordinary judge of baseball talent, and a shrewd trader, he became perhaps the game’s most influential executive.

 

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