TV Time: Branch Rickey on What’s My Line

March 9, 2012

Grant Brisbee over at Baseball Nation posted this original entry.

This is so cool. Could we get contestants on today’s game shows to dress up like that? Of all people to be on the panel — Chuck Connors, who had one at bat for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1949.

Many players appeared on What’s My Line in its many incarnations over the years, including Jackie Robinson, Satchel Paige, Jimmy Piersall, Duke Snider, Stan Musial, Robin Roberts, Roy Campanella,Sal Maglie, Joe DiMaggio, and Ted Williams, just to name a few; very amusing to hear them try to disguise their voices. They were all instantly recognizable to the studio audience. Rickey? Not so much. It seems like there was a beat when he signed in. I wonder how many knew what the heck the Continental League was. I wonder what Rickey did with the 40 clams he won for stumping the panel so long. I’m guessing the coffee pot/dollar marker represented a sponsor.

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Tagged as: Branch Rickey, Chuck Connors, Continental League, Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Stan Musial

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