how much did peewee reese me to jackie robinson? how did take root in this climate of hostility and would very few people were welcome willing to welcome jackie robinson in the league. i found almost immediately was that the embrace did not occur. it did not happen in 1947. jackie robinson, writing a few years later, saying he remembers an incident in 1948 or 1949 and peewee reese said he did not remember anything in 1947. i went back from black-and-white papers looking for any mention of this incident and found no photographs or no mention at all. in fact, found robinson wrote in his column that day, he wrote a column for the pittsburgh courier, the black paper, he wrote cincinnati fans were among the kindest he has encountered yet. and even the white newspapers that robinson had been treated much better in cincinnati than other stops along the way. i talked to eyewitnesses that day said they remember anything -- they don't remember anything like that happening. they were packed with black people that day. the stadium was in a blac