Check Out Branch Rickey's Early Scouting Reports For Hall Of Famers
by Hannah Keyser from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#3M9WH)
Branch Rickey, who is best known for signing Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1945, spent decades of his post-playing career evaluating baseball talent. He instituted the first minor league farm system (an innovation born of out of a desire to lock up top talent for cheap) and encouraged the use of"