Ernie Banks – Mr Cub The Best I Ever Saw Bewfore we get to Mt Cub the best I ever saw list, a little bit about Ernie Banks spent his entire 19-year career (1951-71) with the Chicago Cubs, finishing with a .274 average and 512 home runs. The right-handed hitting slugger, who lead the league…
Nine Other Players Who Debuted in 1940 Pee Wee ReeseElmer ValoMarty MarionWalker CooperDom DiMaggioPete ReiserHarry BrecheenHarry WalkerStan Spence Pete Reiser The 1941 NL batting champion, Pete Reiser lost three seasons to war, parts of several to injury, and never realized the greatness that seemed to be his destiny. He was a hustler,…
Ranking the Shortstops The 1990’s and early 2000’s were the time of the shortstops. No longer were they just slick fielders. They became middle of the order hitters and MVP’s, Alex Rodriquez, Derek Jeter,Nomar Garciaparra, Miguel Tejeda, and Barry Larkin lead the way. ♦ Most heroic, Travis ⇒ ♦ Biggest overachiever, Eckstein ⇒ ♦ Most disappointing career, Templeton…
▪️1) “I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.” — Jackie Robinson ▪️2) “[Jackie] knew he had to do well. He knew that the future of blacks in baseball depended on it. The pressure was enormous, overwhelming, and unbearable at times. I…
A bronze sculpture capturing the friendship of Pee Wee Reese and Jackie Robinson is unveiled at Brooklyn’s KeySpan Park, home of the Mets’ Single-A team. The William Behrends sculpture captures the moment when the Dodger captain showed support by putting his arm around his black teammate’s shoulder, hushing an unruly crowd hurling racial slurs at his teammate at Crosley Field in 1947.
On August 14, 1999, popular Hall of Fame shortstop Harold “Pee Wee” Reese dies from lung cancer at the age of 81. An eight-time All-Star, Reese captained the Brooklyn Dodger teams of the 1950s. He helped lead Brooklyn to seven National League pennants, in addition to the Dodgers’ only World Championship in 1955. Reese also…
Former Dodgers Don Drysdale and Pee Wee Reese, along with Twins slugger Harmon Killebrew, American League hurler Rick Ferrell, and perennial All-Star shortstop Luis Aparicio, are inducted into the Hall of Fame.
1984 – Two outstanding defensive players, shortstop Pee Wee Reese and catcher Rick Ferrell, are elected to the Hall of Fame by the Special Veterans Committee. Reese hit .269 in 16 seasons with the Dodgers while Ferrell batted .281 with just 28 home runs in 18 seasons for the Browns, Red Sox, and Senators.
Twenty-eight months after the Dodgers play their last game in Brooklyn, the demolition of Ebbets Field finally begins when a wrecking ball, painted with red and white stitches, begins its work on the ballpark Brooklyn called home for 44 years. Before the demolition wheel-chair bound Roy Campanella, the team’s former All-Star catcher and three-time National League MVP is given an urn of dirt from behind home plate in front of a crowd of 200 faithful fans.
On May 7, 1959, the largest crowd in major league history turns out for “Roy Campanella Night” at the Los Angeles Coliseum. Campanella was paralyzed in an auto accident prior to the team moving to the West Coast in 1958. The game, which draws the largest crowd ever for a baseball game, 93,103 fans with…