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How was Wesley Branch Rickey mocked when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers?

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Rickey's intense moralism and sermonlike speeches led sportswriters to dub him the "Deacon" or the "Mahatma" (after Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi), and his office became known as the "Cave of the Winds." ...

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