While visiting my mom in Brooklyn, I took some time to take a quick drive to Coney Island.  On this gloomy Tuesday, I was lucky enough to have the place pretty much to myself.  While I usually don’t do B&W pictures, I thought the 3 pictures below looked best this way.

The statue below captures the moment during a game in May 1947 when Brooklyn Dodgers captain Pee Wee Reese went out of his way to support Jackie Robinson by publicly walking over and putting his arm around his teammate’s shoulders.  Robinson, who broke baseball’s color barrier, was facing death threats and the taunts of racist hecklers in the outfield.  It’s been said that the 8 foot statue is 2 feet shy of the man known as Pee Wee.

The choice of using color for the pictures below was a no-brainer.