The Trolley Dodger » Pee Wee Reese http://www.trolleydodger.com Tangled up in Blue since the late 19th Century. Mon, 21 Nov 2011 05:05:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Memorizing the Dodgers Retired Numbers http://www.trolleydodger.com/2009/08/10/memorizing-the-dodgers-retired-numbers/ http://www.trolleydodger.com/2009/08/10/memorizing-the-dodgers-retired-numbers/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:25:41 +0000 Trolley Dodger http://www.trolleydodger.com/?p=936 The set of people who are both readers of this site and users of the Mac flash card program iFlash is probably quite small, but just in case I’ll let you know I uploaded a “Dodgers Retired Numbers” deck to their Deck Library if you’d like to memorize those.

Here’s the Dodgers Retired Numbers page on Dodgers.com as well.

(I discovered over the weekend that you can also sync up iFlash decks with an iPhone/iTouch app for on-the-go memorization, so that’s pretty handy. I grabbed a couple of GRE vocab study decks to keep up my vocabulary chops. :)

]]> http://www.trolleydodger.com/2009/08/10/memorizing-the-dodgers-retired-numbers/feed/ 0 Eddie Fisher & Pee Wee Reese http://www.trolleydodger.com/2009/03/02/eddie-fisher-pee-wee-reese/ http://www.trolleydodger.com/2009/03/02/eddie-fisher-pee-wee-reese/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:34:26 +0000 Trolley Dodger http://www.trolleydodger.com/?p=431 1955 photograph of Eddie Fisher and Pee Wee Reese

From 1955, here’s Eddie Fisher getting an award from Dodger Pee Wee Reese at Ebbets Field. This is from May 31st, just before a night game versus the Pirates, which you can check out on Retrosheet. The Dodgers lost that night, but, as you might recall, things worked out pretty darn well that year.

The next year, in October 1956, Eddie Fisher and his wife Debbie Reynolds had a daughter who eventually became famous in her own right — Carrie Fisher. Who has her own blog now.

It’s a small world.

(Photograph from the always-awesome If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There’s Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats.)

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