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Bartelme was reportedly impressed with Rickey's passion for baseball and his idealism about the proper role of athletics on a college campus. Bartelme convinced the dean of the law school that Rickey could handle his law studies and serving as the school's baseball coach. Bartelme reportedly called Rickey into his office to tell him he had the job if only "to put a stop to those damn letters that come in every day." The hiring also marked the beginning of a lifelong friendship and business relationship between Rickey and
Bartelme. Bartelme and Rickey worked together for most of the next 35 years, and in 1944 a California newspaper noted: "He and Rickey have had a close association in baseball ever since Bartelme was head of the athletic department of the University of Michigan where Rickey took to baseball just as a means to build up his failing health."
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his start in baseball administration. Michigan's baseball coach quit in 1910, and Rickey, who was then a law student at
Michigan, applied for the job. Rickey asked every alumnus he had ever met to write letters to Bartelme on his behalf. Bartelme recalled, "Day after day those letters came in."
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under the assumed name, Harold Brooks. Barthelme noted, "This Brooks won 90 percent of his games I am told. I have seen his picture and I am certain he is really Vernon Parks, our star pitcher. If the charges are true, there is no doubt that the
University of Michigan will take drastic action."
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In March 1928, Bartelme and Branch Rickey purchased the Dayton baseball franchise in the new
Central League, and Bartelme became the club's president. According to a biography of Rickey, Bartelme was set back by "business losses in Florida" and was brought to St. Louis by Rickey as an office
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Bartelme is credited with bringing the sports of basketball, hockey and swimming to varsity status at
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twice released over 70 of the
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to the St. Louis Cardinals for $ 30,000. The Stars had acquired Bottomley for $ 1,000, and he quickly became a sensation while playing for the Stars.
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