The Incredible Story and Legacy of Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson

Learn Three Life Lessons from Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson

If you love inspirational stories about human beings who left a lasting legacy, you’re about to learn the incredible story and legacy of Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson.

By the end of this article, you will know more about two incredible role models and why their legacy will serve humanity for generations.

Gratitude to Ohio Wesleyan University

I’m eternally grateful to Ohio Wesleyan University because they allowed me to enroll in 1979 despite my prior “C minus” pedigree. I graduated in 1983 with a degree in International Business.

I played on the Varsity tennis team and was the slowest person on the university swim team. I met my beautiful wife, who will join many happy alums, family, and friends, and me on May 19–21, 2023, in Delaware, Ohio. It will be our 40th anniversary. Click here to learn more at the OWU website.

Here’s the dorm I stayed in freshman year; Selby Field, the football stadium. We lived under the bleachers in the frigid winters of 1979. That was the easy part.

When I got to OWU, America faced a massive oil embargo, Stagflation that makes 2023 seem easy, a nuclear disaster near where I was born in Harrisburg, PA, Three Mile Island, the Iranian hostage crisis, the end of the Vietnam War, and the…