Kindle Notes & Highlights
Sallie had great faith in Jesus as the savior of all, and spread this wherever she went.
Waddell threw three pitches. Rickey wasn’t sure he saw them. The umpire was certain. He said they were strikes.
Now Barber was witness to a truly great event, Branch Rickey’s assault on ignorance.
“All the men in baseball understood the code,” Barber recalled later. “A code is harder to break than an actual law. A law is impersonal. Often a man breaks a law, is clever enough to get away with it, and people think he is a smart fellow. But when you break an unwritten law, a code of conduct, you are damned, castigated, banished from the club so to speak. You are a renegade, a scoundrel, an ingrate, a pariah.”
If you've ever broken an unwritten rule, this quote hits hard.
Rickey answered, “Luck is the residue of design.”
