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7 quotes by Pee Wee Reese

MLB debut April 23, 1940 for the Brooklyn Dodgers Last MLB appearance September 26, 1958 for the Los Angeles Dodgers Career statistics Batting average .269 Home runs 126 Runs batted in 885 Teams Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers (1940–1942, 1946–1958) Career highlights and awards 10× All-Star (1942, 1946–1954) 2× World Series champion (1955, 1959) Los Angeles Dodgers #1 retired Member of the National Baseball Hall of...
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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... →

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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.

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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... →

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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.

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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... →

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

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Why did they do it? Beats the hell out of me. I was just a scared kid from Kentucky, and these guys had been up in the majors for a while. I guess it... →

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