Reggie Jackson - Wikipedia

12/4/2020 Reggie Jackson - Wikipedia
Reggie Jackson
Reginald Martinez Jackson (born May 18, 1946) is an
American former professional baseball right fielder who played Reggie Jackson
21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City
/ Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, and
California Angels. Jackson was inducted into the National
Baseball Hall of Fame in 1993.
Jackson was nicknamed "Mr. October" for his clutch hitting in

the postseason with the Athletics and the Yankees.[1] He helped
Oakland win five consecutive American League West divisional
pennants, three consecutive American League pennants and
three consecutive World Series titles, from 1972 to 1974.
Jackson helped New York win four American League East
divisional pennants, three American League pennants and two
consecutive World Series titles, from 1977 to 1981. He also
Jackson in 1981
helped the California Angels win two AL West divisional
pennants in 1982 and 1986. Jackson hit three consecutive home Right fielder
runs at Yankee Stadium in the clinching game six of the 1977 Born: May 18, 1946
World Series.[1] Abington Township, Pennsylvania
Jackson hit 563 career home runs and was an American League Batted: Left Threw: Left
(AL) All-Star for 14 seasons. He won two Silver Slugger Awards, MLB debut
the AL Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award in 1973, two World
Series MVP Awards, and the Babe Ruth Award in 1977. The June 9, 1967, for the Kansas City
Yankees and Athletics retired his team uniform number in 1993 Athletics
and 2004.[2] Jackson currently serves as a special advisor to the Last MLB appearance
Yankees.[3] October 4, 1987, for the Oakland
Jackson led his teams to first place ten times over his 21-year Athletics
career. MLB statistics
Batting average .262
Hits 2,584
Contents Home runs 563
Early years Runs batted in 1,702
Collegiate athletic career Teams
Minor leagues
Kansas City / Oakland Athletics
MLB career
Kansas City / Oakland Athletics (1967–1975) (1967–1975)
Baltimore Orioles (1976) Baltimore Orioles (1976)

New York Yankees (1977–1981) New York Yankees (1977–1981)
Mr. October California Angels (1982–1986)
The Bronx Zoo Oakland Athletics (1987)
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1980–81 seasons Career highlights and awards

California Angels (1982–1986) and Oakland Athletics
(1987) 14× All-Star (1969, 1971–1975,
Legacy 1977–1984)
5× World Series champion (1972–
Personal life
1974, 1977, 1978)
Post-retirement honors
AL MVP (1973)
See also
2× World Series MVP (1973, 1977)
Notes
2× Silver Slugger Award (1980, 1982)
References
4× AL home run leader (1973, 1975,
External links 1980, 1982)
AL RBI leader (1973)
Early years Oakland Athletics No. 9 retired

New York Yankees No. 44 retired
Jackson was born in the Wyncote neighborhood of Cheltenham Athletics Hall of Fame
Township, just north of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father,
Monument Park honoree
Martinez Jackson, who was half Puerto Rican,[4] worked as a
tailor and was a former second baseman with the Newark Eagles Member of the National
of Negro league baseball. [5] He was the youngest of four Baseball Hall of Fame
children from his mother, Clara. He also had two half-siblings
Induction 1993
from his father's first marriage.[6] His parents divorced when he
was four; his mother took four of his siblings with her, while his Vote 93.6% (first ballot)
father took Reggie and one of the siblings from his first
marriage, though one sibling later returned to Wyncote.[6] Martinez Jackson was a single father, and
theirs was one of the few black families in Wyncote.
Jackson graduated from Cheltenham High School in 1964, where he excelled in football, basketball,
baseball, and track and field.[7] A tailback in football, he injured his knee in an early season game in his
junior year in the fall of 1962. He was told by the doctors he was never to play football again, but Jackson
returned for the final game of the season.[8] In that game, Jackson fractured five cervical vertebrae,
which caused him to spend six weeks in the hospital and another month in a neck cast. Doctors told
Jackson that he might never walk again, let alone play football, but Jackson defied the odds again.[8] On
the baseball team, he batted .550 and threw several no-hitters.[9] In the middle of his senior year,
Jackson's father was arrested for bootlegging and was sentenced to six months in jail.[9]
Collegiate athletic career

For football, Jackson was recruited by Alabama, Georgia, and Oklahoma, all of whom were willing to
break the color barrier just for Jackson. (Oklahoma had black football players before 1964, including
Prentice Gautt, a star running back recruited in 1957, who played in the NFL.)[9] Jackson declined
Alabama and Georgia because he was fearful of the South at the time, and declined Oklahoma because
they told him to stop dating white girls.[9] For baseball, Jackson was scouted by Hans Lobert of the San
Francisco Giants who was desperate to sign him.[9] The Los Angeles Dodgers and Minnesota Twins also
made offers, and the hometown Philadelphia Phillies gave him a tryout but declined because of his
"hitting skills".[10]
His father wanted his son to go to college,[10] where Jackson wanted to play both football and
baseball.[10] He accepted a football scholarship from Arizona State University in Tempe; his high school
football coach knew ASU's head football coach Frank Kush, and they discussed the possibility of his
playing both sports. After a recruiting trip, Kush decided that Jackson had the ability and willingness to
work to join the squad.[10]
One day after football practice, he approached ASU baseball coach Bobby Winkles and asked if he could
join the team. Winkles said he would give Jackson a look, and the next day while still in his football gear,
he hit a home run on the second pitch he saw; in five at bats he hit three home runs.[11] He was allowed
to practice with the team, but could not join the squad because the NCAA had a rule forbidding the use of
freshman players.[11] Jackson switched permanently to baseball following his freshman year, as he did
not want to become a defensive back.[12] To hone his skills, Winkles assigned him to a Baltimore Orioles-
affiliated amateur team. He broke numerous team records for the squad, and the Orioles offered him a
$50,000 signing bonus if he joined the team.[13] Jackson declined the offer stating that he did not want
to forfeit his college scholarship.[11]
In the beginning of his sophomore year in 1966, Jackson replaced Rick Monday (the first player ever
selected in the Major League Baseball draft and a future teammate with the A's) at center field. He broke
the team record for most home runs in a single season, led the team in numerous other categories and
was first team All-American.[14] Many scouts were looking at him play, including Tom Greenwade of the
New York Yankees (who discovered Mickey Mantle), and Danny Murtaugh of the Pittsburgh Pirates.[14]
In his final game at Arizona State, he showed his potential by being only a triple away from hitting for
the cycle, making a sliding catch, and having an assist at home plate.[14] Jackson was the first college
player to hit a home run out of Phoenix Municipal Stadium.[15]
Minor leagues
In the 1966 Major League Baseball draft on June 7, Jackson was selected by the Kansas City Athletics.[16]
He was the second overall pick, behind 17-year-old catcher Steve Chilcott, who was taken by the New
York Mets.[17][18] According to Jackson, Winkles told him that the Mets did not select him because he
had a white girlfriend.[19] Winkles later denied the story, stating that he did not know the reason why
Jackson was not drafted by the Mets.[20] It was later confirmed by Joe McDonald that the Mets drafted
Chilcott because of need, the person running the Mets at the time was George Weiss, so the true motive
may never be known.[20]
Jackson, age 20, signed with the A's for $95,000 on June 13 and reported for his first training camp with
the Lewis-Clark Broncs of the short season Single-A Northwest League in Lewiston, Idaho,[21] managed
by Grady Wilson.[22] He made his professional debut as a center fielder in the season opener on June 24
at Bethel Park in Eugene, Oregon, but was hitless in five at-bats.[23][24] In the next game, Jackson
singled in the first inning and homered in the ninth.[25][26] In the home opener at Bengal Field in
Lewiston on June 30, he hit a double and a triple.[27] In his final game as a Bronc on July 6, Jackson was
hit in the head by a pitch in the first inning, but stayed in the game and drove in runs with two sacrifice
flies. Complaining of a headache, he left the game in the ninth inning, was admitted to St. Joseph's
Hospital in Lewiston, and remained overnight for observation.[28][29]
Jackson played for two Class A teams in 1966, with the Broncs for just 12 games,[29][30] and then 56
games with Modesto in the California League, where he hit 21 homers. He began 1967 with the
Birmingham A's in the Double-A Southern League in Birmingham, Alabama, where Jackson got his first
taste of racism, being one of only a few blacks on the team.[31] He credits the team's manager at the time,
John McNamara, for helping him through that difficult season.
MLB career
Kansas City / Oakland Athletics (1967–1975)
Jackson debuted in the major leagues with the A's in 1967 in a Friday doubleheader in Kansas City on
June 9, a shutout sweep of the Cleveland Indians by scores of 2–0 and 6–0 at Municipal Stadium.[32]
(Jackson had his first career hit in the nightcap, a lead-off triple in the fifth inning off of long reliever
Orlando Peña.)[32][33]
The Athletics moved west to Oakland prior to the 1968 season. Jackson hit
47 home runs in 1969, and was briefly ahead of the pace that Roger Maris
set when he broke the single-season record for home runs with 61 in 1961,
and that of Babe Ruth when he set the previous record of 60 in 1927.[34]
Jackson later said that the sportswriters were claiming he was "dating a
lady named 'Ruth Maris.'"
Slumping at the plate in May 1970, Athletics owner Charlie O. Finley

threatened to send Jackson to the minors.[35] Jackson hit 23 home runs
while batting .237 for the 1970 season. The Athletics sent him to play in
Puerto Rico, where he played for the Santurce team and hit 20 homers and
knocked in 47 runs to lead the league in both departments. Jackson hit a
memorable home run in the 1971 All-Star Game at Tiger Stadium in Detroit.
Batting for the American League against Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Dock
Jackson before the third Ellis, the ball he hit soared above the right-field stands, striking the
game of the 1973 World transformer of a light standard on the right field roof. While with the Angels
Series.
in 1984, he hit a home run over that roof.
In 1971, the Athletics won the American League's West division, their first
title of any kind since 1931, when they played in Philadelphia. They were swept in three games in the
American League Championship Series by the Baltimore Orioles. The A's won the division again in 1972;
their series with the Tigers went the full five games, and Jackson scored the tying run in the clincher on a
steal of home. In the process, however, he tore a hamstring and was unable to play in the World Series.
The A's still managed to defeat the Cincinnati Reds in seven games. It was the first championship won by
a San Francisco Bay Area team in any major league sport.
During spring training in 1972, Jackson showed up with a mustache. Though his teammates wanted him
to shave it off, Jackson refused. Finley liked the mustache so much that he offered each player $300 to
grow one, and hosted a "Mustache Day" featuring the last MLB player to wear a mustache, Frenchy
Bordagaray, as master of ceremonies.[36]
Jackson helped the Athletics win the pennant again in 1973, and was named Most
Valuable Player of the American League for the season. The A's defeated the New York
Mets in seven hard-fought games in the World Series. This time, Jackson was not only
able to play, but his performance led to his being awarded the Series's MVP award. In
the third inning of that seventh game, which ended in a 5–2 score, the A's jumped out
to a 4–0 lead as both Bert Campaneris and Jackson hit two-run home runs off Jon
Matlack—the only two home runs Oakland hit the entire Series. The A's won the World Reggie
Series again in 1974, defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers in five games. Jackson's
number 9 was
retired by the
Oakland
Besides hitting 254 home runs in nine years with the Athletics, Jackson was also no Athletics in
stranger to controversy or conflict in Oakland. Sports author Dick Crouser wrote, 2004.
"When the late Al Helfer was broadcasting the Oakland A's games, he was not too
enthusiastic about Reggie Jackson's speed or his hustle. Once, with Jackson on third, teammate Rick
Monday hit a long home run. 'Jackson should score easily on that one,' commented Helfer. Crouser also
noted that, "Nobody seems to be neutral on Reggie Jackson. You're either a fan or a detractor." When
teammate Darold Knowles was asked if Jackson was a hotdog (i.e., a show-off), he famously replied,
"There isn't enough mustard in the world to cover Reggie Jackson."[37]
In February 1974, Jackson won an arbitration case for a $135,000 salary for the season, nearly doubling
his previous year's $70,000.[38] On June 5, outfielder Billy North and Jackson engaged in a clubhouse
fight at Detroit's Tiger Stadium. Jackson injured his shoulder, and catcher Ray Fosse, attempting to
separate the combatants, suffered a crushed disk in his neck, costing him three months on the disabled
list. In October, the A's went on to win a third consecutive World Series.
Prior to the 1975 season, Jackson sought $168,000, but arbitration went against him this time and he
settled for $140,000.[39] The A's won a fifth consecutive division title, but the loss of pitcher Catfish
Hunter, baseball's first modern free agent, left them vulnerable, and they were swept in the ALCS by the
Boston Red Sox.
Baltimore Orioles (1976)
Paid $140,000 in 1975 and one of nine Oakland players refusing to sign 1976 contracts,[39] Jackson
sought a three-year $600,000 pact.[40] With free agency imminent after the season and the expectations
of higher salaries for which Athletics owner Finley was unwilling to pay, he was traded along with Ken
Holtzman and minor-league right-handed pitcher Bill Van Bommel to the Baltimore Orioles for Don
Baylor, Mike Torrez, and Paul Mitchell on April 2, 1976.[39] Jackson had not signed a contract and
threatened to sit out the season; he reported to the Orioles four weeks later,[41] and made his first plate
appearance on May 2.[42][43][44][45] Baltimore and Oakland both finished second in their respective
divisions in 1976; the Yankees and Royals advanced to the ALCS, the first without the A's since 1970.
During Jackson's lone season in Baltimore he stole 28 bases, a career-best.[46]
New York Yankees (1977–1981)
The Yankees won the pennant in 1976 but were swept in the World Series by the Reds.
A month later on November 29, they signed Jackson to a five-year contract totaling
$2.96 million ($13,300,000 in current dollar terms).[47][48][49] The number 9 that he
had worn in Oakland and Baltimore was already used by Yankees third baseman Graig
Nettles; Jackson asked for number 42 in memory of Jackie Robinson, but that number
was given to pitching coach Art Fowler before the start of the season. Noting that Hank Reggie
Aaron, at the time the holder of the career record for the most home runs, had just Jackson's
number 44
retired, Jackson asked for and received number 44 as a tribute to Aaron. Jackson wore was retired by
number 20 for one game during spring training as a tribute to the also recently retired the New York
Frank Robinson, then he switched to number 44. Yankees in
1993.
Jackson's first season with the Yankees in 1977 was a difficult one. Although team
owner George Steinbrenner and several players, most notably catcher and team captain Thurman
Munson and outfielder Lou Piniella, were excited about his arrival, the team's field manager Billy Martin
was not. Martin had managed the Tigers in 1972, when Jackson's A's beat them in the playoffs. Jackson
was once quoted as saying of Martin, "I hate him, but if I played for him, I'd probably love him."
The relationship between Jackson and his new teammates was strained due to an interview with SPORT
magazine writer Robert Ward. During spring training at the Yankees' camp in Fort Lauderdale, Jackson
and Ward were having drinks at a nearby bar. Jackson's version of the story is that he noted that the
Yankees had won the pennant the year before, but lost the World Series to the Reds, and suggested that
they needed one thing more to win it all, and pointed out the various ingredients in his drink. Ward
suggested that Jackson might be "the straw that stirs the drink." But when the story appeared in the
June 1977 issue of SPORT, Ward quoted Jackson as saying, "This team, it all flows from me. I'm the
straw that stirs the drink. Maybe I should say me and Munson, but he can only stir it bad."
Jackson has consistently denied saying anything negative about

Munson in the interview and he has said that his quotes were taken
out of context.[50] However, Dave Anderson of The New York Times
subsequently wrote that he had drinks with Jackson in July 1977,
and that Jackson told him, "I'm still the straw that stirs the drink.
Not Munson, not nobody else on this club."[51] Regardless, as
Munson was beloved by his teammates, Martin, Steinbrenner and
Yankee fans, the relationships between them and Jackson became
very strained.
Jackson signs with the Yankees. On June 18, in a 10–4 loss to the Boston Red Sox in a nationally
televised game at Fenway Park in Boston, Jim Rice, a powerful hitter
but notoriously slow runner, hit a ball into shallow right field that
Jackson appeared to weakly attempt to field. Jackson failed to reach the ball, which fell far in front of
him, thereby allowing Rice to reach second base. Furious, Martin removed Jackson from the game
without even waiting for the end of the inning, sending Paul Blair out to replace him. When Jackson
arrived at the dugout, Martin yelled that Jackson had shown him up. They argued, and Jackson said that
Martin's heavy drinking had impaired his judgment. Despite Jackson being 18 years younger, about two
inches taller and maybe 40 pounds heavier, Martin lunged at him, and had to be restrained by coaches
Yogi Berra and Elston Howard. Red Sox fans could see this in the dugout and began cheering wildly, and
the NBC TV cameras showed the confrontation to the entire country.
Yankees management defused the situation by the next day, but the relationship between Jackson and
Martin was permanently poisoned. However, George Steinbrenner made a crucial intervention when he
gave Martin the option of either having Jackson bat in the fourth or "cleanup" spot for the rest of the
season, or losing his job. Martin made the change and Jackson's hitting improved (he had 13 home runs
and 49 RBIs over his next 50 games), and the team went on a winning streak. On September 14, while in
a tight three-way race for the American League Eastern Division crown with the Red Sox and Orioles,
Jackson ended a game with the Red Sox by hitting a home run off Reggie Cleveland, giving the Yankees a
2–0 win. The Yankees won the division by two and a half games over the Red Sox and Orioles, and came
from behind in the top of the ninth inning in the fifth and final game of the American League
Championship Series to beat the Kansas City Royals for the pennant.
Mr. October
During the World Series against the Dodgers, Munson was interviewed, and suggested that Jackson,
because of his past post-season performances, might be the better interview subject. "Go ask Mister
October", he said, giving Jackson a nickname that would stick. (In Oakland, he had been known as "Jax"
and "Buck.") Jackson hit home runs in Games Four and Five of the Series.
Jackson's crowning achievement came with his three-home-run performance in World Series-clinching
Game Six, each on the first pitch, off three Dodgers pitchers. (His first plate-appearance, during the
second inning, resulted in a four-pitch walk.) The first came off starter Burt Hooton, and was a line drive
shot into the lower right field seats at Yankee Stadium. The second was a much faster line drive off
reliever Elías Sosa into roughly the same area. With the fans chanting his name, "Reg-GIE! Reg-GIE!
Reg-GIE!", the third came off reliever Charlie Hough, a knuckleball pitcher, making the distance of this
home run particularly remarkable. It was a towering drive into the black-painted batter's eye seats in
center, 475 feet (145 m) away. Jackson stated afterwards that the scouting reports provided by Gene
Michael and Birdie Tebbetts played a large role in his success.[52] Their reports indicated that the
Dodgers would attempt to pitch him inside and Jackson was prepared.[52]
Since Jackson had hit a home run off Dodger pitcher Don Sutton in his last at bat in Game Five, his three
home runs in Game Six meant that he had hit four home runs on four consecutive swings of the bat
against as many Dodgers pitchers. Jackson became the first player to win the World Series MVP award
for two teams. In 27 World Series games, he amassed 10 home runs, including a record five during the
1977 Series (the last three on first pitches), 24 RBI and a .357 batting average. Babe Ruth, Albert Pujols,
and Pablo Sandoval are the only other players to hit three home runs in a single World Series game. Babe
Ruth accomplishing the feat twice – in 1926 and 1928 (both in Game Four). With 25 total bases, Jackson
also broke Ruth's record of 22 in the latter Series; this remains a World Series record, Willie Stargell
tying it in the 1979 World Series. Chase Utley (2009, Philadelphia) and George Springer (2017, Houston)
have since tied Jackson's record for most home runs in a single World Series.
An often forgotten aspect of the ending of this decisive Game 6 was the way Jackson left the field at the
game's end. Fans had been getting somewhat rowdy in anticipation of the game's end, and some had
actually thrown firecrackers out near Jackson's area in right field. Jackson was alarmed enough about
this to walk off the field, in order to get a helmet from the Yankee bench to protect himself. Shortly after
this point, as the end of the game neared, fans were actually bold enough to climb over the wall, draping
their legs over the side in preparation for the moment when they planned to rush onto the field. When
that moment came, after pitcher Mike Torrez caught a pop-up for the game's final out, Jackson started
running at top speed off the field, actually body-checking past some of these fans filling the playing field
in the manner of a football linebacker.[53]
The Bronx Zoo
The Yankees' home opener of the 1978 season, on April 13 against

the Chicago White Sox, featured a new product, the "Reggie!" bar. In
1976, while playing in Baltimore, Jackson had said, "If I played in
New York, they'd name a candy bar after me." The Standard Brands
company responded with a circular "bar" of peanuts dipped in
caramel and covered in chocolate, a confection that was originally
named the "Wayne Bun" as it was made in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The
"Reggie!" bars were handed to fans as they walked into Yankee
Stadium. Jackson hit a home run, and when he returned to right Jackson bats at Yankee Stadium,
field the next inning, fans began throwing the Reggie bars on the July 1979.
field in celebration. Jackson told the press that this confused him,
thinking that maybe the fans did not like the candy.[54] The Yankees
won the game, 4–2.
But the Yankees could not maintain their success, as manager Billy Martin lost control. On July 23, after
suspending Jackson for disobeying a sign during a July 17 game, Martin made a statement about his two
main antagonists, referring to comments Jackson had made and team owner George Steinbrenner's 1972
violation of campaign-finance laws: "They're made for each other. One's a born liar, the other's
convicted." It was moments like these that gave the Yankees the nickname "The Bronx Zoo."
Martin resigned the next day (some sources have said he was actually fired[55]), and was replaced by Bob
Lemon, a Hall of Fame pitcher for the Cleveland Indians who had been recently fired as manager of the
White Sox. Steinbrenner, a Cleveland-area native, had hired former Indians star Al Rosen as his team
president (replacing another Cleveland figure, Gabe Paul). Steinbrenner jumped at the chance to involve
another hero of his youth with the Yankees; Lemon had been one of Steinbrenner's coaches during the
Bombers' pennant-winning 1976 season.
After being 14 games behind the first-place Red Sox on July 18, the Yankees finished the season in a tie
for first place. The two teams played a one-game playoff for the division title at Fenway Park, with the
Yankees winning 5–4. Although the home run by light-hitting shortstop Bucky Dent in the seventh
inning got the most notice, it was an eighth-inning home run by Jackson that gave the Yankees the fifth
run they ended up needing. The next day, with the American League Championship Series with the
Royals beginning, Jackson hit a home run off the Royals' top reliever at the time, Al Hrabosky, the
flamboyant "Mad Hungarian." The Yankees won the pennant in four games, their third straight.
Jackson was once again in the center of events in the World Series, again against the Dodgers. Los
Angeles won the first two games at Dodger Stadium, taking the second when rookie reliever Bob Welch
struck Jackson out with two men on base with two outs in the ninth inning. The series then moved to
New York, and after the Yankees won Game Three on several fine defensive plays by third baseman
Graig Nettles, Game Four saw Jackson in the middle of a controversial play on the basepaths. In the
sixth inning, after collecting an RBI single, Jackson was struck in the hip–possibly on purpose–by a ball
thrown by Dodger shortstop Bill Russell as Jackson was being forced at second base. Instead of
completing a double play that would have ended the inning, the ball caromed into foul territory and
allowed Thurman Munson to score the Yankees' second run of the inning. In spite of the Dodgers'
protests of interference on Jackson's part, the umpires allowed the play to stand. The Yankees tied the
game in the eighth inning and eventually won in the tenth.
Following a blowout win in Game Five, both teams headed back to Los Angeles. In Game Six, Jackson
got his revenge against Welch by blasting a two-run home run in the seventh inning, putting the
finishing touch on a series-clinching, 7-2 win for the Yankees.
1980–81 seasons
In 1980, Jackson batted .300 for the only time in his career, and his 41 home runs tied with Ben Oglivie
of the Milwaukee Brewers for the American League lead. However, the Yankees were swept in the ALCS
by the Kansas City Royals. That year, he won the inaugural Silver Slugger Award as a designated hitter.
As he entered the last year of his Yankee contract in 1981, Jackson endured several difficulties from
George Steinbrenner. After the owner consulted Jackson about signing then-free agent Dave Winfield,
Jackson expected Steinbrenner to work out a new contract for him as well. Steinbrenner never did (some
say never intending to) and Jackson played the season as a free agent. Jackson started slowly with the
bat, and when the 1981 Major League Baseball strike began, Steinbrenner invoked a clause in Jackson's
contract forcing him to take a complete physical examination. Jackson was outraged and blasted
Steinbrenner in the media. When the season resumed, Jackson's hitting improved, partly to show
Steinbrenner he wasn't finished as a player. He hit a long home run into the upper deck in Game Five of
the strike-forced 1981 American League Division Series with the Brewers, and the Yankees went on to
win the pennant again. However, Jackson injured himself running the bases in Game Two of the 1981
ALCS and missed the first two games of the World Series, both of which the Yankees won.
Jackson was medically cleared to play Game Three, but manager Bob Lemon refused to start him or even
play him, allegedly acting under orders from Steinbrenner. The Yankees lost that game and Jackson
played the remainder of the series, hitting a home run in Game Four. However, they lost the last three
games and the World Series to the Dodgers.
California Angels (1982–1986) and Oakland Athletics (1987)
Jackson became a free-agent again once the 1981 season was over.
The owner of the California Angels, entertainer Gene Autry, had
heard of Jackson's desire to return to California to play, and signed
him to a five-year contract.
On April 27, 1982, in Jackson's first game back at Yankee Stadium

with the Angels, he broke out of a terrible season-starting slump to
hit a home run off former teammate Ron Guidry. The at-bat began
with Yankee fans, angry at Steinbrenner for letting Jackson get
away, starting the "Reg-GIE!" chant, and ended it with the fans
Jackson in 1983 as a member of the
chanting "Steinbrenner sucks!" By the time of Jackson's election to
California Angels.
the Hall of Fame, Steinbrenner had begun to say that letting him go
was the biggest mistake he had made as Yankee owner.
That season, the Angels won the American League West, and would do so again in 1986, but lost the
American League Championship Series both times. On September 17, 1984, on the 17th anniversary of
the day he hit his first home run, he hit his 500th, at Anaheim Stadium off Bud Black of the Royals.
In 1987, he signed a one-year contract to return to the A's, wearing the number 44 with which he was
now most associated rather than the number 9 he previously wore in Oakland. He announced he would
retire after the season, at the age of 41. In his last at-bat, at Comiskey Park in Chicago on October 4, he
collected a broken-bat single up the middle, but the A's lost to the White Sox, 5–2. Jackson was the last
player in the major leagues to have played for the Kansas City Athletics.
Legacy
Jackson played 21 seasons and reached the post-season in 11 of them, winning six pennants and five
World Series. His accomplishments include winning both the regular-season and World Series MVP
awards in 1973, hitting 563 career home runs (sixth all-time at the time of his retirement), maintaining a
.490 career slugging percentage, being named to 14 All-Star teams, and the dubious distinction of being
the all-time leader in strikeouts with 2,597 (he finished with 13 more career strikeouts than hits) and
second on the all-time list for most Golden sombreros (at least four strikeouts in a game) with 23 – he
led this statistic until 2014, when he was surpassed by Ryan Howard. Jackson was the first major leaguer
to hit 100 home runs for three different clubs, having hit over 100 for the Athletics, Yankees, and Angels.
He is the only player in the 500 home run club that never had consecutive 30 home run seasons in a
career.
Personal life
During his freshman year at Arizona State, he met Jennie Campos, a Mexican-American.[12] Jackson
asked Campos on a date, and discovered many similarities, including the ability to speak Spanish, and
being raised in a single parent home (Campos's father was killed in the Korean War).[12] An assistant
football coach tried to break up the couple because Jackson was black and Campos was considered
white. The coach contacted Campos's uncle, a wealthy benefactor of the school, and he warned the
couple that their being together was a bad idea.[56] But the relationship held up and she later became his
wife. Jackson has been divorced since 1973. Kimberly, his only child, was born in the late 1980s.[57]
During the off-season, though still active in baseball, Jackson worked as a field reporter and color
commentator for ABC Sports. Just over a month before signing with the Yankees in the fall of 1976,
Jackson did analysis in the ABC booth with Keith Jackson and Howard Cosell the night his future team
won the American League pennant on a homer by Chris Chambliss. During the 1980s (1983, 1985, and
1987 respectively), Jackson was given the task of presiding over the World Series Trophy presentations.
In addition, Jackson did color commentary for the 1984 National League Championship Series
(alongside Don Drysdale and Earl Weaver). After his retirement as an active player, Jackson returned to
his color commentary role covering the 1988 American League Championship Series (alongside Gary
Bender and Joe Morgan) for ABC.
Jackson appeared in the film The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, portraying an Angels
outfielder hypnotically programmed to kill the Queen of the United Kingdom. He also appeared in Richie
Rich, BASEketball, Summer of Sam and The Benchwarmers. In 1979, Jackson was a guest star in an
episode of the television sitcom Diff'rent Strokes and also in an episode of The Love Boat. He played
himself in the Archie Bunker's Place episode "Reggie-3 Archie-0" in 1982, a 1990 MacGyver episode,
"Squeeze Play", The Jeffersons episode "The Unnatural” from 1985, and the Malcolm in the Middle
episode "Polly in the Middle", from 2004. Jackson was also considered for the role of Geordi La Forge in
the series Star Trek: The Next Generation,[58] a role that ultimately went to LeVar Burton. From 1981 to
1982, he hosted Reggie Jackson's World of Sports for Nickelodeon, which continued in reruns until
1985.
He co-authored a book in 2010, Sixty-Feet Six-Inches, with fellow Hall of Famer Bob Gibson. The book,
whose title refers to the distance between the pitcher's mound and home plate, details their careers and
approach to the game.
The 1988 Sega Master System baseball video game Reggie Jackson Baseball, endorsed by Jackson, was
sold exclusively in the United States. Outside of the U.S., it was released as American Baseball.
Jackson was the de facto spokesperson for the Upper Deck Company during the early 1990s, appearing
in numerous advertisements, appearances, and participating in the company's Heroes of Baseball
exhibition games.[59] This affiliation also included Jackson being included the "Find the Reggie"
promotion which inserted 2500 autograph cards into packs of 1990 Upper Deck Baseball High Series
packs. This inclusion of an autograph card marked an important first in what would become a very
popular trend in the trading card hobby.[60]
Jackson has endured three fires to personal property, including a June 20, 1976 fire at his home in
Oakland that destroyed his 1973 MVP award, World Series trophies and All-Star rings.[61] The same
home was again burned down during the Oakland firestorm of 1991, which destroyed more baseball
memorabilia in addition to other valuable collections.[62] In 1988, a warehouse holding several of
Jackson's collectible cars was damaged in a fire, with several of the cars, valued at $3.2 million,
ruined.[57]
In Tampa in 2005, Jackson's car was struck from behind and flipped over several times. Jackson escaped
with minor injuries, later saying "...it was God tapping me on the shoulder... It makes you think about
your purpose, about His plan for you."[57]
Jackson called on former San Francisco 49ers head coach and ordained minister Mike Singletary for
spiritual guidance. Jackson credits Singletary, stating "he helped me drop that shell I put up."[57]
Post-retirement honors
Jackson and Steinbrenner reconciled, and Steinbrenner hired
Jackson as a "special assistant to the principal owner", making him a
consultant and a liaison to the team's players, particularly those of
minority standing. By this point, the Yankees, long noted for being
slow to adapt to changes in race relations, had come to develop
many minority players in their farm system and seek out others via
trades and free agency. Jackson usually appears in uniform at the
Yankees' spring training complex in Tampa, Florida, and was sought
out for advice by recent stars as Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez. Reggie Jackson during the 2009
"His experience is vast, and he's especially good with the young World Series victory parade.
players in our minor league system, the 17- and 18-year old kids.
They respect him and what he's accomplished in his career. When
Reggie Jackson tells a young kid how he might improve his swing, he tends to listen," said Hal
Steinbrenner, Yankees managing general partner and co-chairperson.[57]
Jackson was inducted to the Hall of Fame in 1993.[63] He chose to wear a Yankees cap on his Hall of
Fame plaque[64] after the Oakland Athletics unceremoniously fired him from a coaching position in
1991.[65]
The Yankees retired Jackson's uniform number 44 on August 14, 1993, shortly after his induction into
the Hall of Fame. The Athletics retired his number 9 on May 22, 2004. He is one of only ten MLB players
to have their numbers retired by more than one team, and one of only four to have different numbers
retired by two MLB teams.
In 1999, Jackson placed 48th on The Sporting News' 100 Greatest Baseball Players list. That same year,
he was named one of 100 finalists for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team, but was not one of
the 30 players chosen by the fans.
The Yankees dedicated a plaque in Jackson's honor on July 6, 2002 that now hangs in Monument Park
at Yankee Stadium. The plaque calls him "One of the most colorful and exciting players of his era" and "a
prolific hitter who thrived in pressure situations." Each Yankee so honored and still living was on hand
for the dedication: Phil Rizzuto, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford and Don Mattingly. Ron Guidry, a teammate of
Jackson's for all five of his seasons with the Yankees, was there, and was to be honored with a Monument
Park plaque the next season. Willie Mays, Hank Aaron and Ernie Banks, players whom Jackson admired
while growing up, attended the ceremony at his invitation. Like Jackson, each was a member of the Hall
of Fame and had hit over 500 career home runs. Each had also played in the Negro Leagues, as had
Jackson's father, Martinez Jackson.
Jackson expanded his love of antique cars into a chain of auto dealerships in California, and used his
contacts to become one of the foremost traders of sports memorabilia.[66] He has also been the public
face of a group attempting to purchase a major league team, already having made unsuccessful attempts
to buy the Athletics and the Angels.[67] His attempt to acquire the Angels along with Jimmy Nederlander
(minority owner of the New York Yankees), Jackie Autry (widow of former Angels owner Gene Autry)
and other luminaries was thwarted by Mexican-American billionaire Arturo Moreno, who outbid
Jackson's group by nearly $50 million for the team in the winter of 2002.[68]
In a July 2012 interview with Sports Illustrated, Jackson talked was critical
of the Baseball Writers' Association of America as he believes that the
organization has lowered its standards for admission into the Hall of
Fame.[57] He has also been critical of players associated with performance-
enhancing drugs, including distant cousin Barry Bonds, stating "I believe
that Hank Aaron is the home run king, not Barry Bonds, as great of a player
Bonds was."[57] Of Alex Rodriguez, Jackson remarked, "Al's a very good
friend. But I think there are real questions about his numbers. As much as I
like him, what he admitted about his usage does cloud some of his
numbers."[57] On July 12, the Yankees released a statement regarding the
Sports Illustrated interview in which Jackson said, "In trying to convey my
feelings about a few issues that I am passionate about, I made the mistake
of naming some specific players."[69] It had been reported [70] that he was
Reggie Jackson speaks
told by the Yankees to steer clear from the team, although general manager
with Alex Rodriguez during
Brian Cashman stated that Jackson had not been banned but only told to
the 2006 season.
not join the club on a road trip to Boston and would later be free to interact
with the club.[71] Jackson stated, "I continue to have a strong relationship
with the club, and look forward to continuing my role with the team."[69]
In 2007, ESPN aired a miniseries called The Bronx Is Burning about the 1977 Yankees, with the conflicts
and controversies involving Jackson, portrayed by Daniel Sunjata, a central part of the storyline. The
series infuriated Jackson, as he felt that he was portrayed as selfish and arrogant. He also expressed
frustration that the filmmakers did not consult with him while making the miniseries, saying "I feel
betrayed."[72]
In 2008, Jackson threw the ceremonial first pitch at the Yankees' opening-day game, the last at the
original Yankee Stadium. He also threw out the first pitch at the first game at the new Yankee Stadium
(an exhibition game).[73]
On October 9, 2009, Jackson threw the ceremonial opening pitch at Game 2 of the ALDS between the
Yankees and the Minnesota Twins. On October 18, 2010, the Ride of Fame honored Jackson with his
image on a New York City double-decker tour bus.[74]
On September 5, 2018, before an Athletics game against the Yankees in Oakland, Jackson was inducted
into the new Oakland Athletics Hall of Fame. He joined fellow inductees Rickey Henderson, Dave
Stewart, Dennis Eckersley, Catfish Hunter and Rollie Fingers.[75]
See also
List of Puerto Ricans
DHL Hometown Heroes
Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame
Major League Baseball titles leaders
List of Major League Baseball home run records
500 home run club
List of Major League Baseball career home run leaders
List of Major League Baseball career hits leaders
List of Major League Baseball career runs scored leaders
List of Major League Baseball career doubles leaders
List of Major League Baseball career runs batted in leaders

List of Major League Baseball career stolen bases leaders
List of Major League Baseball career total bases leaders
List of Major League Baseball career bases on balls leaders
List of Major League Baseball career at-bat leaders
List of Major League Baseball career games played leaders
List of Major League Baseball career plate appearance leaders
List of Major League Baseball career strikeouts by batters leaders
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e.com/players/j/jacksre01.shtml), or Fangraphs (https://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=10
06308), or Baseball-Reference (Minors) (https://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=ja
ckso002reg)
ReggieJackson.com (http://www.ReggieJackson.com/)
Reggie Jackson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0413960/) on IMDb
The Sporting News' Baseball's 25 Greatest Moments: Reggie! Reggie! Reggie! (http://www.sportingn
ews.com/baseball/25moments/12.html)
Sports Illustrated (http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/topic/cover/Reggie_Jackson/1900-01-0

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Reggie Jackson Exclusive Interview for MSG's The Bronx is Burning: Summer of '77 (https://web.arc
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