On July 18, 1939, the Brooklyn Dodgers acquired Harold Pee Wee Reese from the Boston Red Sox for $35,000 and players to be named later. The Dodgers eventually traded Red Evans (September 1, 1939) and ...

This day in Los Angeles Dodgers history saw Don Drysdale and Brooklyn legend Pee Wee Reese inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame during a ceremony held in Cooperstown on August 12, 1984.

Bob Greene’s tribute to Pee Wee Reese, “The Man Who Stood Beside Jackie Robinson” (op-ed, June 27), brought to mind a memory of my own. On Sept. 6, 1955, as a 12-year-old Little Leaguer, I was part of ...