I’m grateful and thankful I got to know him as well as I did.”Īs the longest tenured broadcaster with a single team in pro sports history, Scully saw it all and called it all. “He was the best there ever was,” pitcher Clayton Kershaw said after the Dodgers’ game in San Francisco.

Scully died at his home in the Hidden Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, the team announced after being informed by family members.

Released by Los Angeles Dodgers (December 30, 1958).LOS ANGELES (AP) - Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully, whose dulcet tones provided the soundtrack of summer while entertaining and informing Dodgers fans in Brooklyn and Los Angeles for 67 years, died Tuesday night.

Sold by Boston Red Sox to Brooklyn Dodgers for $35000 and 4 players (July 18, 1939).

Signed as an amateur free agent by Pittsburgh Pirates (1938).

Most people believe that Pee Wee Reese's best season was 1949, when he slugged 16 home runs, stole 26 bases, hit for a. The friendship between Reese and Robinson is the subject of a popular 1990 children's book called Teammates ( ISBN 0-15-284285-3), by Peter Golenbock. In front of the main entrance into Louisville Slugger Field, stands a statue of Pee Wee Reese. In 1984, Pee Wee Reese was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Reese also broadcast several World Series for NBC radio. He called games for CBS from 1960-1965 (with Dizzy Dean) and for NBC from 1966-1968 (with Curt Gowdy). 1 in our hearts.'įollowing his retirement as a player, Reese enjoyed considerable success as a play-by-play announcer on network television. When you touched Jackie, you touched all of us.' With Pee Wee, it was No. When I finally got up to Brooklyn, I went to Pee Wee and said, 'Black people love you. When Pee Wee reached out to Jackie, all of us in the Negro League smiled and said it was the first time that a White guy had accepted us. 'Pee Wee helped make my boyhood dream come true to play in the Majors, the World Series. Their rapport soon led shortstop Reese and second baseman Robinson to become one of the most effective defensive pairs in the sport's history.Īt Reese's funeral, Joe Black, another Major League Baseball black pioneer, said: Throughout that difficult first year in the major leagues, Reese helped keep Robinson's morale up amid all the abuse.

This gesture is depicted in a bronze sculpture of Reese and Robinson, created by sculptor William Behrends, that was placed at KeySpan Park in Brooklyn, New York, and unveiled on November 1, 2005. The gesture was especially telling because Reese was born and raised near then-segregated Louisville, Kentucky.

Reese, the captain of the team, went over to Robinson and put his arm around his shoulder in a gesture of support which silenced the crowd. When Robinson joined the Dodgers in 1947 and traveled with them during their first road trip, he was heckled by fans in Cincinnati, Ohio. He refused to sign a petition that threatened a boycott if Robinson joined the team. Reese was a strong supporter of the first black Major League Baseball player, Jackie Robinson. Reese was a ten-time All Star shortstop who contributed to seven league championships for Brooklyn. Harold Henry 'Pee Wee' Reese (JAugust 14, 1999) was a professional baseball player who played for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers from 1940 to 1958.

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