- Uniform number 1 retired by the Dodgers.
- Befriended Jackie Robinson when he first came up to the Dodgers.
- Father of Mark Reese.
- Shortstop with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers, 1940-1942 & 1946-1958.
- Enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1984.
- Made major league debut on 23 April 1940.
- In 1949 led National League shortstops in fielding percentage (.977).
- Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 508-510. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
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