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23 November 2015
Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese Monument
The Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese Monument is outside of MCU Park (home of the Brooklyn Cyclones) in Brooklyn, New York. William Behrends who is an artist from North Carolina and he is famous for his portraits of Major League Baseball (MLB) players sculpted the monument and the walkway to the monument was designed by Ken Smith. The idea came to him when he saw Pee Wee Reese, who at the time was the captain of the Brooklyn Dodgers, put his arm around Jackie Robinson. (Nycgovparks.org) The monument shows how even though most people did not want African American players in the MLB, his teammate Pee Wee Reese supported Robinson.
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