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Harold Peter Henry "Pee Wee" Reese (July 23, 1918 – August 14, 1999) was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a shortstop for the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers from 1940 to 1958.
Pee Wee Reese Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com. Positions: Shortstop and Third Baseman. Bats: Right • Throws: Right. 5-10 , 160lb (178cm, 72kg) Born: July 23, 1918 in Ekron, KY. More bio, uniform, draft, salary info. Hall of Fame. 10x All-Star. 1955 World Series. 1 1.
Apr 26, 2024 · Pee Wee Reese was an American professional baseball player and broadcaster who was the captain of the famous “Boys of Summer” Brooklyn Dodgers teams of the 1950s. Reese, a shortstop, played his entire 16-year career (1940–58) with the Dodgers, the first 15 in Brooklyn, before he moved with the team.
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Pee Wee Reese was the heart and soul of the Dodgers, playing shortstop from 1940-57 (he served in the Navy from 1943-45) in Brooklyn, and for one season in Los Angeles. With Reese, numbers don’t tell the whole story.
Jan 4, 2012 · Pee Wee Reese died at his Louisville home two years later, on August 14, 1999. He was eighty-one years old, and had been married to his beloved Dottie for fifty-seven years. He was survived by her, his son and daughter, three grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
Pee Wee Reese Bio. Fullname: Harold Henry Reese; Nickname: The Little Colonel; Born: 7/23/1918 in Ekron, KY; High School: DuPont Manual, Louisville, KY; Debut: 4/23/1940; Hall of Fame: 1984; Died: 8/14/1999
Aug 15, 1999 · Pee Wee Reese, the Hall of Fame shortstop and Brooklyn Dodgers captain whose leadership and example helped ease the way for Jackie Robinson to break major league baseball's color barrier, died...
ee Wee Reese, the Hall of Fame shortstop and hugely popular captain of the Brooklyn Dodgers in their glory years of the 1950's, died Saturday at his home in Louisville, Ky. He was 81. He had...
Aug 15, 1999 · Pee Wee Reese, the Hall of Fame shortstop and hugely popular captain of the Brooklyn Dodgers in their glory years of the 1950's, died yesterday at his home in Louisville, Ky....
Sep 7, 2023 · In 1972 -- 25 years after he broke the color barrier -- Jackie Robinson wrote a memoir with his longtime collaborator, Alfred Duckett, called I Never Had It Made. He did not say anything about Pee Wee Reese embracing him in Cincinnati in 1947.
