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A Small, Great Thing

“Something in my gut reacted at the moment. Something about what? The unfairness of it? The injustice of it? I don’t know.”
Pee Wee Reese

A statue of Pee Wee Reese with his arm around Jackie Robinson was unveiled yesterday in Brooklyn commemmorating one of baseball’s most touching moments. Reese was a mensch in the truest sense of the word. Veteran baseball scribes Vic Ziegel and Ira Berkow report.

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