Sports

• Branch McCracken

  American basketball player.

  • Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1960 (see list of Basketball Hall of Fame)
• W. Branch Rickey (born 1881, died 1965)

  American baseball president and manager. Known for hiring Jackie Robinson, the first African-American to play in the major leagues.

  • Inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1967 (see list of Members of the Baseball Hall of Fame)