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Pee Wee Reese

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Being Captain of the Dodgers meant representing an organization committed to winning and trying to keep it going. We could have won every year if the breaks had gone right.


— Pee Wee Reese


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Brooklyn was the most wonderful city a man could play in, and the fans there were the most loyal there were.


— Pee Wee Reese


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I used to tell Jackie (Robinson) sometimes when they were throwing at him, 'Jackie, they aren't throwing at you because you are black. They are throwing at you because they don't like you.


— Pee Wee Reese


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If I had my career to play over, one thing I'd do differently is swing more. Those 1,200 walks I got, nobody remembers them.


— Pee Wee Reese


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If you rush in and out of the clubhouse, you rush in and out of baseball.


— Pee Wee Reese


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When Pee Wee reached out to Jackie all of us in the Negro League smiled and said it was the first time that a white guy had accepted us. '” His role in nurturing Jackie Robinson aside 1947 was a superb year for Reese as he batted. No other non-Yankee ballplayer has appeared in that many World Series for the same team.

A ten-time All Star Reese contributed to seven National League championships for the Dodgers and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1984. Harold Peter Henry "Pee Wee" Reese (July 23 1918 – August 14 1999) was an American professional baseball player. Reese is also famous for his support of his teammate Jackie Robinson the first modern African American player in the major leagues especially in Robinson's difficult first years.

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