i saw when he said right before he stole, rickey would always say out loud, "rickey's got to go," and then take off. and that that was just it. so he didn't lack confidence. but, you know, howard, a lot of people said he came off as standoffish or egotistical. he referred to himself in the third person. what did he say about that? >> i think that if you ask ricky himself, he'll tell you that he came to win. he came to beat the other guy. and one of the reasons why i wanted to write this book is because it is one of those american stories where he was not a popular player despite his greatness, despite everything he did. this really is a story of a of a player who was one of the more disliked players in the early 1980's. back in the 1980's, there was so much fighting between the players association and the league strikes and lockouts fighting over money. it's fascinating to me that back then people were so angry that these players that ricky was actually asking for the princely sum of $500,000 in his contract. and now you look at the nba and the nfl and baseball, and you get a guy like

and of course after that, the key figures who developed this system was a guy named branch rickey huo of course a key figure in the 20th century baseball anyway, 21st was with the cardinals with him he worked from 1960 - 1943. i had peaks in 1934 the same in 1934 season. in baseball history and cardinals had a very dominant world series when that year. in the way that it worked is under ricky's leadership, the cardinals began buying minor league teams in a kind of fun of them and with the cardinals organization it and through this you now have created contracts with minor-league players. they would eventually control up to 32 and allowed them to earn if you some good talent, you could bring them up in the major-league. and that team to go to another one, they had, the powerful. and the same with the cardinals and basically with these teams, your best players as you are developing them and so the key part of baseball today. in the cardinals are the first ones to achieve success. without system pretty and they 19 national league pennant and six more championships so that was a success,

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so jackie was chosen for the right reasons by branch rickey. he was an officer in the army. he was a gentleman he was about to be married. he had a college education and he had this this experience that ucla playing against the white competition the best in fact when he was in the college all-star game played against the chicago bears. the bears won but the only player they feared according to the records that emanated from newspaper reports. they feared jackie robinson who scored a touchdown against the the champion bears. so it's a complicated issue and it's it's jackie may have contributed to demise of the -- leagues and maybe that's why to answer your question. that's maybe the reason why was absent from from the comic strip the comic book. coverage. yeah. yeah, let's go, you know, but you write it is very it is very complicated because one of my premises about integration is that it was all done on white folks terms. other words we want we want a black person who's gonna make white people feel comfortable whether it's turning the other cheek and again, it's easy for me

tributes have been paid to the former rugby league player, rickey bibey.wigan and st helens, retired ten years ago. a women, believed to be his partner, is being treated in hospital with serious injuries. katarina johnson—thompson has started the defence of her heptathlon title at the world athletics championships in oregon. 0ur sports correspondent, andy swiss is in eugene. andy, three events down, how's she doing? yes, as you say, katarina johnson—thompson is the reigning world champion in the heptathlon but she's had a terrible time with injuries in the last year or so. we've had three events so far, the hurdles, shot put and highjump, where she managed to clear up 1.83. but katarina johnson—thompson down in seventh place after the first three events. later on, though, there are big hopes for britain in there are big hopes for britain in the women's100 metres, dina asher—smith was the fastest in yesterday's heats. she's had a mixed season so far, that should give her a real confidence. she did win silver in the 100 metres at the last world championships