There are some ball players a team just doesn’t trade. The Dodgers’ Zack Wheat was one. After 19 years with Brooklyn, he was put on waivers. A Boston Globe reporter explained that Wheat was so beloved that Brooklyn’s fans thought of him as a member of the family. Pee Wee Reese was regarded in a similar manner. It is time to celebrate “The Captain,” who was also known as the Colonel due to his Kentucky origins, and who began his career playing for the Kentucky Colonels. Born Harold Henry “Pee Wee” Reese, July 23, 1918, at Ekron, Kentucky. His nickname, Pee Wee, had nothing to do with size. It had to do with marbles. A s a kid growing up, he earned the runner-up spot in a Louisville Courier-Journal newspaper-sponsored pee-wee marbles competition .

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