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By the end of the 1940s Jimmy Powers had also fifa 15 coins terminated his “El Cheapo” campaign against Rickey. The reason was not primarily because the Dodgers had proven consistently successful on the field under Rick- ey’s management, but because a member of the Brooklyn front office, probably Minor League administrator Harold Roettger, had received anonymously a copy of a letter Powers had written during World War Two to Colonel Robert McCormick, publisher of the Daily News. The sports columnist expressed many racist and anti-Semitic opinions in the letter. “If [gossip columnist Walter] Winchell and the rest of the Jews had their way,” Powers had written, “America would be a vast concentration camp from Maine to California. There wouldn’t be enough barbed wire to hold back all the decent Christians maligned by the Jews and all who run with them.” Roettger, the gentlest of Rickey’s compassionate staff, wanted to go public with the letter, but Rickey insisted on letting the mat- ter drop. “We never should have taken Powers seriously,” the ferocious but idealistic gentleman concluded.

If one of his worst press antagonists was now muted, Branch Rickey had no illusions about what the coming year of 1950 would bring. Two pennants in three years meant nothing. “What have you done for me lately?” was the operative view in the organization, Rickey understood. Leo Durocher might be gone and the Catholic Youth Organization pla- cated, and the economic losses of the football Dodgers may have been fading into history (although there were still the last checks to be paid to quarterback Robert Chappuis).47 However, Rickey and his hand-picked loyal manager Burt Shotton were still the ruling faces of the Brooklyn management, and Walter O’Malley was eager to ascend to the team pres- idency. It was more than ever clear to Rickey that he could be out of a job by the end of the 1950 season.

The thought of idleness repelled Rickey, but his brain and his spirit could never slow for long. As Branch Rickey celebrated Christmas with his family, he looked forward to the new year with the same passion he always felt. If what lay ahead in the new year was indeed going to be his swan song in Brooklyn, he wanted 1950 to be a banner year.