Legacy
Branch Rickey is attributed with the famous quotation: "Luck is the residue of design." The Yale Book of Quotations attributes this to the "Sporting News", Feb. 21, 1946.
His descendants also became involved in baseball: his son, Branch Jr., who died four years before his father, and Branch Rickey III, currently president of the Pacific Coast League.
Rickey was a relative of Beth Rickey, the Louisiana political activist.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)