We continue to count down the 25 greatest Dodgers of all time with a classic member of the Boys of Summer.
is a Hall of Fame shortstop and an iconic member of the “Boys of Summer.” That alone is good enough to make him one of the greatest Dodgers of all time, but there’s another reason too: His actions before and afterHarold Henry Reese was born on July 23, 1918, in Meade County, Ky. When he turned 21, he was 5 feet 6 and 160 pounds, but he was called “Pee Wee” long before that. Not because of his size, because of his other hobby other than baseball: marbles.
Reese made it to the majors in 1940 and was a great fielder, but only an average hitter for three seasons before he spent three years in the Navy with the construction battalion. He returned to the Dodgers for the 1946 season and was a much better hitter, batting .284 with 87 walks. But the most famous moment in the Reese-Robinson friendship came in 1947 in Cincinnati. During pregame infield practice, Robinson was taking his usual verbal abuse from the crowd. Reese, a Southerner from Kentucky with friends attending the game, walked over to Robinson and put his arm around him while talking to him, a gesture that silenced much of the crowd.
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