I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed 120 pounds. I didn't go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet.

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.