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Brother Branch Rickey<\/strong><\/p>\n December 20th 1881 \u2013 December 9th 1965<\/span><\/p>\n Member of:<\/p>\n Lucasville Masonic Lodge #465, <\/a>Lucasville, Ohio<\/p>\n \u00a0Later Tuscan Lodge #240 <\/a>in St. Louis, Missouri<\/p>\n And Montauk Masonic Lodge #286 in Brooklyn, New York<\/p>\n Major League Baseball executive elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame<\/a> in 1967. He was perhaps best known for breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier by signing African American player Jackie Robinson<\/a>, for drafting the first Afro-Hispanic superstar, Roberto Clemente<\/a>, for creating the framework for the modern minor league farm system, for encouraging the Major Leagues to add new teams through his involvement in the proposed Continental League, and for introducing the batting helmet.<\/p>\n \n \n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”https:\/\/eb1870.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/famous-mason-Branch-Rickey-1.png” alt=”famous freemason Branch Rickey” show_in_lightbox=”on” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brother Branch Rickey December 20th 1881 \u2013 December 9th 1965 Member of: Lucasville Masonic Lodge #465, Lucasville, Ohio \u00a0Later Tuscan Lodge #240 in St. Louis, Missouri And Montauk Masonic Lodge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"project_category":[43],"project_tag":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/3150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/3150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3153,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/3150\/revisions\/3153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_category?post=3150"},{"taxonomy":"project_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_tag?post=3150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}