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{{short description|American baseball player (1918–1999)}}
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{{Infobox baseball biography
|name=Pee Wee Reese
|image=Pee Wee Reese 1956.jpg
|caption = Reese with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1956
|position=[[Shortstop]]
|bats=Right
|throws=Right
|birth_date={{Birth date|1918|7|23}}
|birth_place=[[Ekron, Kentucky]], U.S.
|death_date={{death date and age|1999|8|14|1918|7|23}}
|death_place=[[Louisville, Kentucky]], U.S.
|debutleague = MLB
|debutdate=April 23
|debutyear=1940
|debutteam=Brooklyn Dodgers
|finalleague = MLB
|finaldate=September 26
|finalyear=1958
|finalteam=Los Angeles Dodgers
|statleague = MLB
|stat1label=[[Batting average (baseball)|Batting average]]
|stat1value=.269
|stat2label=[[Hit (baseball)|Hits]]
|stat2value=2,170
|stat3label=[[Home run]]s
|stat3value=126
|stat4label=[[Runs batted in]]
|stat4value=885
|teams=
* [[Los Angeles Dodgers|Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers]] ({{mlby|1940}}–{{mlby|1942}}, {{mlby|1946}}–{{mlby|1958}})
|highlights=
* 10× [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star]] ([[1942 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|1942]], [[1946 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|1946]]–[[1954 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|1954]])
* 2× [[World Series champion]] ({{wsy|1955}}, {{wsy|1959}})
* [[List of Major League Baseball annual stolen base leaders|NL stolen base leader]] (1952)
* [[Los Angeles Dodgers#Retired numbers|Los Angeles Dodgers No. 1]] retired
|hoflink = National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
|hoftype = National
|hofdate=[[1984 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting|1984]]
|hofvote=Veterans Committee
}}
'''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 [[Los Angeles Dodgers|Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers]] from 1940 to 1958.<ref>McHale, Matt. [http://www.thefreelibrary.com/_/print/PrintArticle.aspx?id=83619793 ''"Pee Wee Reese Dies; Ex-Dodgers Captain Led Brooklyn Team to '55 Championship"''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181208124344/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/_/print/PrintArticle.aspx?id=83619793 |date=December 8, 2018 }} – ''[[Los Angeles Daily News]]'' – (c/o TheFreeLibrary.com) – August 15, 1999</ref> A ten-time [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star]], Reese contributed to seven [[National League (baseball)|National League]] championships for the Dodgers and was inducted into the [[Baseball Hall of Fame]] in [[1984 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting|1984]]. Reese is also famous for his support of his teammate [[Jackie Robinson]], the first [[African American|Black]] player in the major leagues' modern era, especially in Robinson's difficult first years, most notably when he put his arm around Robinson during a pre-game warmup in front of a heckling crowd.{{Citation needed|reason=Commonly understood to be a myth, perhaps change the sentence to reflect this.|date=August 2025}}

==Early life==
Reese's nickname originated in his childhood, as he was a champion [[marbles]] player (a "pee wee" is a small marble). Reese was born in [[Ekron, Kentucky|Ekron]], [[Meade County, Kentucky]], and raised there until he was nearly eight years old, when his family moved to [[Louisville]].  In high school, Reese was so small that he did not play baseball until his senior year, at which time he weighed only 120 pounds and played just six games as a second baseman.<ref name="BBDigest1948">[https://books.google.com/books?id=_S0DAAAAMBAJ&dq=baseball%20digest%201948&pg=PA11 Baseball Digest]{{Dead link|date=April 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, 1948, by Arthur Daley of ''[[The New York Times]]''.</ref> He graduated from [[duPont Manual High School]] in 1935, where he played for a legendary coach, Ralph Kimmel.  He worked as a cable splicer for the Louisville phone company, only playing amateur baseball in a church league.  When Reese's team reached the league championship, the minor league [[Louisville Colonels (minor league baseball)|Louisville Colonels]] allowed them to play the championship game on their field.  Reese impressed Colonels owner Cap Neal, who signed him to a contract for a $200 bonus.<ref name="BBDigest1948" /> While playing for the Colonels, he was affectionately referred to by his teammates as "The Little Colonel."<ref>Worldwide, CMG. "Biography." Pee Wee Reese. CMG Worldwide, n.d. Web. June 10, 2017.</ref>

==Baseball career==
By 1938, Reese was the Colonels' regular shortstop and one of the top prospects in the minors; [[Boston Red Sox]] farm director [[Billy Evans]] was so impressed by Reese that he recommended the Red Sox buy the team.  Evans and owner [[Tom Yawkey]] both knew that Boston's regular shortstop, [[Joe Cronin]], was nearing the end of his career.<ref name="BBDigest1948" /><ref name=Neyer>{{cite book |last=Neyer |first=Rob |author-link=Rob Neyer |title=Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders |year=2006 |publisher=Fireside |location=New York City |isbn=0-7432-8491-7 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/robneyersbigbook0000neye }}</ref>

However, Cronin was also the team's manager, and still thought of himself as a regular shortstop. When Yawkey sent Cronin to Louisville to scout Reese, Cronin realized that he was scouting his own replacement.  Cronin deliberately downplayed Reese's talent and suggested Reese be traded. It took a while to find a buyer, since the other teams assumed something had to be wrong with Reese if the Red Sox wanted to get rid of him.  However, on July 18, 1939, Reese was sent to Brooklyn for $35,000 and four players to be named later.  This trade is now considered one of the most lopsided deals in baseball history.  As it turned out, Cronin was only a part-time player after 1941.<ref name=Neyer/>

Reese stayed in Louisville for the rest of the [[1939 in baseball|1939 season]], and was called up to Brooklyn in time for the [[1940 Brooklyn Dodgers season|1940 season]]. In an ironic twist, he walked into a situation where his manager was also the regular shortstop—in this case, [[Leo Durocher]].  Unlike Cronin, however, Durocher was willing to give up his spot in the lineup to Reese.

===Early playing career===
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[[File:Pee wee reese exhibits.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Reese with the Dodgers]]

Reese's rookie season in [[1940 Brooklyn Dodgers season|1940]] was curtailed by a broken heel bone that limited him to 84 games in what had looked to be a promising season (.272 [[batting average (baseball)|batting average]] with 58 [[Run (baseball)|runs]] scored). He had a thrilling moment that year, hitting a [[Grand slam (baseball)|grand slam]] in the bottom of the ninth [[inning]] to beat the [[1940 New York Giants (MLB) season|New York Giants]]. In 1941, he hit .229 and led the league with 47 [[Error (baseball)|errors]]. Even playing in the [[1941 World Series|World Series]] that year was a forgettable experience for Reese, as he batted .200 and made three errors in the five-game Yankee win. It was in the 1942 campaign that he truly established himself, making the National League [[1942 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star team]] for the first of ten consecutive years and leading National League shortstops in both putouts and [[Assist (baseball)|assists]].

Like many players of his era, he missed three seasons due to military service. Reese enlisted in the [[United States Navy]] in 1943 and shipped out to fight in the [[Pacific Ocean theater of World War II|Pacific theater]] of World War II.  He played on the [[Aiea Naval Hospital]] baseball team while stationed in Hawaii. With Reese in the service, the Dodgers languished, finishing no better than third place and as poorly as 42 games out (in seventh place) in [[1943 Brooklyn Dodgers season|1943]]. Upon his return in [[1946 Brooklyn Dodgers season|1946]], Reese immediately righted the ship as the Dodgers battled the [[1946 St. Louis Cardinals season|St. Louis Cardinals]] in a tight pennant race. The two teams ended the season tied for first place and met in the [[1946 National League tie-breaker series]].<ref name="1946 National League Team Statistics and Standings">{{cite web |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/NL/1946.shtml |title=1946 National League Team Statistics and Standings |publisher=Baseball-Reference.com |access-date=October 15, 2011 |archive-date=August 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200831002259/https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/NL/1946.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref> It was the first playoff [[tiebreaker]] in Major League Baseball history.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.espn.com/espn/wire?section=mlb&id=3617483|title=Tiebreaker Playoff Results|work=[[ESPN.com]]|date=September 30, 2008|access-date=October 15, 2011|archive-date=January 26, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160126212946/http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=mlb&id=3617483|url-status=live}}</ref> The Cardinals won the first two games of the best-of-three-game series to capture the National League pennant.<ref name="1946 National League Team Statistics and Standings"/>

===Jackie Robinson===
In [[1947 Brooklyn Dodgers season|1947]], some Dodgers players began circulating a petition when word spread that Brooklyn intended to bring [[Jackie Robinson]] up from their farm team in Montreal. The players assumed that Reese, who grew up in [[Louisville, Kentucky]], would sign. According to sportswriter [[Roger Kahn]], who later became close friends with Reese, the petition essentially said, "If you bring up the nigger, trade us. We won't play." However, the popular Reese refused to sign the petition and it died.<ref name="herbert">{{cite news|last1=Herbert|first1=Bob|title=Baseball's Finest Moment: Pee Wee Reese|url=https://herbert.blogs.nytimes.com/2005/09/23/baseballs-finest-moment-pee-wee-reese/|access-date=April 11, 2018|work=The New York Times|date=September 23, 2005|archive-date=October 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191001100314/https://herbert.blogs.nytimes.com/2005/09/23/baseballs-finest-moment-pee-wee-reese/|url-status=live}}</ref> When a sportswriter asked Reese if he felt threatened by Robinson taking his position of shortstop, Reese simply responded, "If he can take my job, he's entitled to it."

Reese was one of the few welcoming to Robinson, who endured horrible abuse from the crowds and fellow players, including pitchers who threw directly at his head and players who berated him with racial slurs. After spending a day with the Dodgers in 1947, sportswriter [[Jimmy Cannon]] concluded that, "Robinson is the loneliest man I have ever seen in sports."<ref name="herbert"/><ref name="espn">{{cite news|last1=Cronin|first1=Brian|title=Did Reese really embrace Robinson in '47?|url=http://www.espn.com/blog/playbook/fandom/post/_/id/20917/did-reese-really-embrace-robinson-in-47|access-date=April 11, 2018|work=ESPN.com|date=April 15, 2013|archive-date=April 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200421160109/https://www.espn.com/blog/playbook/fandom/post/_/id/20917/did-reese-really-embrace-robinson-in-47|url-status=live}}</ref>

When Robinson joined the Dodgers in 1947 and traveled with them during their first [[road trip]], he was heckled by fans in [[Cincinnati]]. During pre-game infield practice at [[Crosley Field]] (the then-home of the [[Cincinnati Reds]]), Reese, the captain of the team, went over to Robinson, engaged him in conversation, and put his arm around his shoulder in a gesture of support that silenced the crowd.<ref name="herbert"/> (According to a 2013 article on [[ESPN]], Brian Cronin argues that the incident actually occurred in 1948 in Boston.)<ref name="espn"/>

In response to Dodgers teammate [[Pete Reiser]]'s comment about how democracy technically means that everybody's equal, Reese said "Well that's true, but Jackie is catching special hell because he's the only Black player. Maybe we ought to do something to make it more equal.” According to American journalist [[Lester Rodney]], the moment of solidarity between Robinson and Reese in Cincinnati sparked a gradual decline in vile fan behavior by 1948. Rodney reported "You began to get that feeling that the racists knew they were in the minority, and they may still be racist to the core but at least their mouths were shut! And you never heard them again."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Zirin |first1=Dave |title=What's My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States |date=2005 |publisher=Haymarket Books |isbn=9781931859202 |pages=293}}</ref>

The gesture is depicted in a bronze sculpture of Reese and Robinson, created by sculptor [[William Behrends]], which was placed at [[MCU Park]] in Brooklyn and unveiled on November 1, 2005. In a 2005 article, ''[[New York Times]]'' columnist [[Bob Herbert]] highlighted Kahn's statement that Reese's gesture to Jackie Robinson is "Baseball's finest moment."<ref name="herbert"/>

Throughout that difficult first year in the major leagues, Reese helped keep Robinson's morale up amid all the abuse. As the 1947 season wore on, there was tacit acceptance of the fact that Black players would now have an active, permanent presence in big league baseball. Reese became good friends with Robinson and was able to use humor to alleviate some of the tension and make Robinson laugh. Robinson still got pitches thrown at him, but, as Reese recounted to Kahn, "I told him, 'You know Jack, some of these guys are throwing at you because you're Black. But others are doing it just because they plain don't like you.'{{-"}} His role in nurturing Jackie Robinson aside, 1947 was a superb year for Reese, as he batted .284 with a league-leading 104 [[base on balls|walks]]. He also had a career best [[slugging average]] of .426. Their rapport soon led shortstop Reese and second baseman Robinson to become one of the most effective defensive pairs in the sport's history. The friendship between Reese and Robinson is prominent in Roger Kahn's classic 1972 work, ''[[The Boys of Summer (book)|The Boys of Summer]]''.<ref name="herbert"/>

The reason behind Reese's passive attitude towards race is not entirely known, though some stories suggest that he was taught about the evils of racism at a young age when his father took him to a tree where a [[lynching]] had occurred.

When Robinson died in 1972, Reese was one of the pallbearers at his funeral.<ref name="herbert"/>

===Later career===
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| quote = Pee Wee helped make my boyhood dream come true to play in the majors, the [[World Series]]. When Pee Wee reached out to Jackie, all of us in the [[Negro league|Negro League]] smiled and said it was the first time that a white guy had accepted us. When I finally got up to Brooklyn, I went to Pee Wee and said, "Black people love you. When you touched Jackie, you touched all of us." With Pee Wee, it was No. 1 on his uniform and No. 1 in our hearts.
| source = [[Joe Black]], another Black major league baseball pioneer, at Reese's funeral.<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_15_96/ai_55983462 "Rachel Robinson Recalls How the Late Pee Wee Reese Helped Jackie Robinson Integrate Baseball"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100812090118/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_15_96/ai_55983462/ |date=August 12, 2010 }}. ''[[Jet Magazine]]'' (c/o [[FindArticles]]), September 13, 1999.</ref>
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In [[1949 Brooklyn Dodgers season|1949]], Reese had his only league lead in a significant batting category, topping all National Leaguers with 132 runs scored. The Dodgers won the pennant again that year, but the Yankees continued to dominate in the [[1949 World Series|World Series]], winning in five games despite Reese's .316 Series average and team-leading five hits.

Reese became the Dodgers' team captain in [[1950 Brooklyn Dodgers season|1950]]. In [[1951 Brooklyn Dodgers season|1951]], he had his career high in [[Run batted in|RBI]], with 84. In [[1952 Brooklyn Dodgers season|1952]], he led the National League in stolen bases with 30. That year, Reese had his best Series, batting .345 with 10 hits, one home run and four RBI. In Game 3, Robinson and Reese pulled off a [[double steal]]; both later scored on a [[passed ball]].

The [[1953 Brooklyn Dodgers season|1953]] Dodgers won the National League pennant with a mark of 105–49 for a .682 winning percentage. Reese was a mainstay for the team, with 108 runs scored and a .271 batting average. The Yankees, however, again defeated the Dodgers in the [[1953 World Series]], four games to two. After the season, the Dodgers offered Reese the position of [[Manager (baseball)|manager]]; when Reese declined the promotion, the Dodgers hired [[Walter Alston]], who remained manager for more than two decades.

In [[1954 Brooklyn Dodgers season|1954]], Reese batted .309, the only season he hit over .300. Though 36 years old, he was still going strong during the [[1955 Brooklyn Dodgers season|1955 season]], scoring 99 runs. In that year, the Dodgers won their first [[1955 World Series|World Series]]. Reese had two RBI in Game 2. In Game 7, he singled and scored an insurance run. While on the field, he doubled [[Gil McDougald]] off first base after [[Sandy Amorós]] made a sensational catch of a [[Yogi Berra]] fly ball in left field and relayed the throw to Reese to help preserve the victory.

In [[1957 Brooklyn Dodgers season|1957]], Reese yielded his starting role to another Black ballplayer, [[Charlie Neal]]. As the Dodgers moved west in [[1958 Los Angeles Dodgers season|1958]], Reese joined them as a backup [[infielder]], retiring that year after batting .224 in 59 games. He coached for the Dodgers in the [[1959 Los Angeles Dodgers season|1959 season]], earning a second [[World Series ring]].

==Career statistics==
In a 16-year major league career, Reese played in 2,166 [[Games played|games]], accumulating 2,170 [[Hit (baseball)|hits]] in 8,058 [[at bats]] for a .269 career batting average along with 126 home runs, 885 runs batted in and an [[on-base percentage]] of .366. He retired with a .962 fielding percentage. In 44 World Series games, he batted .272 (46-for-169) with 20 runs, 2 home runs and 16 RBI.

Other than his Navy time between 1943 and 1945, Reese had no breaks in service and played at least 140 games in every year from [[1941 Brooklyn Dodgers season|1941]] to [[1956 Brooklyn Dodgers season|1956]]. Consistently productive, he scored at least 75 runs from [[1942 Brooklyn Dodgers season|1942]] through 1956 and amassed 1,338 lifetime, best of any Dodger. Though he never won a [[Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award|Most Valuable Player Award]], eight times he ranked in the top ten of the Most Valuable Player Award balloting. He also was a home run threat during a time when shortstops seldom hit [[home run]]s. Reese amassed 252 [[stolen bases]] in a period when steals were not an integral part of the game. Defensively, he was an outstanding gloveman, leading National League shortstops four times in [[putouts]] and ranking in the top 10 all-time in putouts and [[double play]]s.

One of the most popular players with both his teammates and the fans, the "Little Colonel" was the Dodgers' team captain, and he, not the manager, brought out the line-up card at the start of their games. Reese and [[Elston Howard]] have the dubious distinction of playing on the most losing World Series teams (six each). Reese's only World Series win as a player, with the Dodgers in the [[1955 World Series]], occurred against Howard's [[1955 New York Yankees season|New York Yankees]] during Howard's first World Series. No other non-Yankee ballplayer has appeared in that many World Series for the same team.

==Broadcasting career==
[[File:Gillette Super-Speed TV commercial with Pee Wee Reese circa 1956.webm|thumb|right|250px|Reese in a television commercial for [[Gillette (brand)|Gillette]] razors, ca. 1956]]

Following his retirement as a player, Reese enjoyed considerable success as a baseball [[play-by-play]] announcer and [[color commentator]]. He called ''[[Major League Baseball Game of the Week|Game of the Week]]'' telecasts on [[CBS]] from 1960 to 1965 (with [[Dizzy Dean]]) and for [[Major League Baseball on NBC|NBC]] from 1966 to 1968 (with [[Curt Gowdy]]). Reese also broadcast the [[1967 World Series|1967]] and [[1968 World Series|1968]] World Series for [[Major League Baseball on NBC Radio|NBC Radio]], called [[Cincinnati Reds]] telecasts in 1969–1970, and served as a part-time television analyst for the [[Montreal Expos]] in 1972.

==Later life and death==
In his later years, Reese was employed at [[Hillerich & Bradsby]], makers of Louisville Slugger baseball bats. He battled [[prostate cancer|prostate]] and [[lung cancer]] during the final years of his life, and died on August 14, 1999, at his Louisville home. He is interred at Resthaven Memorial Park Cemetery in Louisville.

==Awards and honors==
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In 1984, Reese was inducted into the [[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum]] along with [[Rick Ferrell]]. On his entry, his support of Jackie Robinson was cited as well as his playing performance as a testament to his worthiness of the Hall.

A statue of Reese was erected in front of the main entrance of [[Louisville Slugger Field]] in 2000<ref>{{cite web |title=Statue, Outdoor : PALM 00029 |url=https://louisvillemetro.github.io/COPA_VirtualExhibit/vex1/A270CC6A-D74A-4A1C-9285-151700911580.htm |website=louisvillemetro.github.io |access-date=September 5, 2019 |archive-date=September 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190905194233/https://louisvillemetro.github.io/COPA_VirtualExhibit/vex1/A270CC6A-D74A-4A1C-9285-151700911580.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> and his number was retired by the [[Louisville Bats]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.milb.com/louisville/news/bats-to-retire-reese-robinson-jersey-numbers/c-286953654|title=Bats to retire Reese, Robinson jersey numbers|website=MiLB.com|language=en|access-date=September 15, 2018|archive-date=September 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180915084602/https://www.milb.com/louisville/news/bats-to-retire-reese-robinson-jersey-numbers/c-286953654|url-status=live}}</ref>

A [[Reese and Robinson Monument|statue of Reese and Jackie Robinson]] was erected in Brooklyn, New York in November 2005, in front of KeySpan Park (now [[Maimonides Park]]) where the [[Brooklyn Cyclones]] (high-A affiliate of the [[New York Mets]]) play. Their widows both attended the ceremony for the statue which memorializes the gesture of Reese and his teammates overcoming the racial barrier.<ref>{{cite news |last=Berkow |first=Ira |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/02/sports/baseball/two-men-who-did-the-right-thing.html |title=Two Men Who Did the Right Thing |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=November 2, 2005 |access-date=September 7, 2016 |archive-date=December 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229021324/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/02/sports/baseball/two-men-who-did-the-right-thing.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Reese was presented with the "SABR Hero of Baseball Award" at the [[Society for American Baseball Research]]'s June 1997 national convention at [[Louisville, Kentucky]].

In 2013, the [[Bob Feller Act of Valor Award]] honored Reese as one of 37 Baseball Hall of Fame members for his service in the United States Navy during World War II.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://actofvaloraward.org/hof-players/|title=WWII HOF Players – Act of Valor Award|access-date=August 18, 2021|archive-date=October 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211008204152/https://actofvaloraward.org/hof-players/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Reese married Dorothy "Dottie" Walton on March 29, 1942; she outlived him by nearly 13 years. They had two children. Dottie died on March 7, 2012, just 22 days away from what would have been the couple's Platinum wedding anniversary.  His son, Mark, has made sports documentaries in Los Angeles over the past 25 years.

==In popular culture==
* In the 1987 movie ''[[The Brave Little Toaster]],'' Radio mentions him in a line of dialogue.
* In the 2013 film ''[[42 (film)|42]]'', Reese is played by [[Lucas Black]]. The moment when he put his arm around Robinson is also depicted.
* Comics – The [[Chabad Lubavitch]] Hasidic movement commissioned a comic strip featuring a character based on Pee Wee Reese, the style of the strip was in the visual style of Chester Gould's ''[[Dick Tracy]]''.<ref>Seeman, Don. [http://jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/1085/publishing-godliness-the-lubavitcher-rebbes-other-revolution/ "Publishing Godliness: The Lubavitcher Rebbe's Other Revolution."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205234204/http://jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/1085/publishing-godliness-the-lubavitcher-rebbes-other-revolution/ |date=February 5, 2015 }} ''Jewish Review of Books''. July 16, 2014.</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Biography|Baseball}}
*[[List of Major League Baseball career hits leaders]]
*[[List of Major League Baseball career runs scored leaders]]
*[[List of Major League Baseball career stolen bases leaders]]
*[[List of Major League Baseball annual runs scored leaders]]
*[[List of Major League Baseball annual stolen base leaders]]
*[[List of Major League Baseball players who spent their entire career with one franchise]]
*[[List of people from the Louisville metropolitan area]]

==References==
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==External links==
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* {{baseballstats |br=r/reesepe01 |fangraphs=1010776|brm=reese-001har}}
* [https://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=reesepe01 Pee Wee Reese] at Baseball Almanac
* [https://syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/2000647-matt-kemp-or-duke-snider-who-wins-in-a-2014-vs-1955-dodgers-team-match-up.amp.html The Bleacher Report] Classic photo of Pee Wee Reese and the Boys of Summer
* {{cite web |url=http://www.thedeadballera.com/Obits/Obits_R/Reese.Harold.Obit.html |title=Pee Wee Reese |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200123022106/http://www.thedeadballera.com/Obits/Obits_R/Reese.Harold.Obit.html |archive-date=January 23, 2020 |website=The Deadball Era |access-date=May 16, 2024}}
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