1900: As we turn the corner and enter into this new century, the Library of Congress is 100 years old on April 24th. This is a picture of the LOC.Reggie Jackson - Wikipedia. Reggie Jackson. Jackson at Dodger Stadium in 2. Right fielder. Born: (1. May 1. 8, 1. 94. 6 (age 7. Wyncote, Pennsylvania. MLB debut. June 9, 1. Kansas City Athletics. Last MLB appearance. 9781904842491 1904842496 G-pcr, David Poyner, Mark Wheatley 9780310815532 0310815533 With God Plaque with Butterfly Ornament, Zondervan Publishing. October 4, 1. 98. Oakland Athletics. MLB statistics. Batting average. Hits. 2,5. 84. Home runs. Runs batted in. 1,7. Teams. Career highlights and awards. Jackson was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1. Jackson was nicknamed . Jackson helped New York win four American League East divisional pennants, three American League pennants and two consecutive World Series titles, from 1. He also helped the California Angels win two AL West divisional pennants in 1. Jackson hit three consecutive home runs at Yankee Stadium in the clinching game 6 of the 1. World Series. He won two Silver Slugger Awards, the AL Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award in 1. World Series MVP Awards, and the Babe Ruth Award in 1. The Yankees and Athletics retired his team uniform number in 1. His father was Martinez Jackson, a half Puerto Rican. He also had two half- siblings from his father's first marriage. He was told by the doctors he was never to play football again, but Jackson returned for the final game of the season. Doctors told Jackson that he might never walk again, let alone play football, but Jackson defied the odds again. Louis Cardinals). His high- school football coach knew ASU's head football coach Frank Kush, and they discussed the possibility of him playing both sports. After a recruiting trip, Kush decided that Jackson had the ability and willingness to work to join the squad. 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. He broke numerous team records for the squad, and the Orioles offered him a $5. 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. 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. He began 1. 96. 7 with the Birmingham A's in the Double- ASouthern League in Birmingham, Alabama, where Jackson got his first taste of racism, being one of only a few blacks on the team. Jackson hit 4. 7 home runs in 1. Roger Maris set when he broke the single- season record for home runs with 6. Babe Ruth when he set the previous record of 6. Finley threatened to send Jackson to the minors. Commissioner. Bowie Kuhn successfully intervened in their dispute, but Jackson's numbers in 1. The Athletics sent him to play in Puerto Rico, where he played for the Santurce team and hit 2. Jackson hit a memorable home run in the 1. All- Star Game at Tiger Stadium in Detroit. Batting for the American League against Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis, the ball he hit soared above the right- field stands, striking the transformer of a light standard on the right field roof. While with the Angels in 1. In 1. 97. 1, the Athletics won the American League's West division, their first title of any kind since 1. 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 1. 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 1. 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 $3. 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' Most Valuable Player 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 Series again in 1. Los Angeles Dodgers in five games. Besides hitting 2. Athletics, Jackson was also no stranger to controversy or conflict in Oakland. Sports author Dick Crouser wrote, . Once, with Jackson on third, teammate Rick Monday hit a long home run. Crouser also noted that, . You're either a fan or a detractor. 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. Baltimore Orioles (1. With the coming of free agency after the 1. Finley unwilling to pay the higher salary that Jackson would ask for, Jackson was traded on April 2, 1. Bill Van. Bommell and Ken Holtzman to the Baltimore Orioles for Don Baylor, Mike Torrez, and Paul Mitchell. Both his new team, the Orioles, and his former team, the Athletics, finished second in their respective divisions. New York Yankees (1. Jackson asked for number 4. Jackie Robinson, but that number was given to pitching coach Art Fowler before the start of the season. Noting that Hank Aaron, at the time the holder of the career record for the most home runs, had just retired, Jackson asked for and received number 4. Aaron. Jackson wore number 2. Frank Robinson, then he switched to number 4. Jackson's first season with the Yankees, 1. 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 manager, Billy Martin was not. Martin had managed the Tigers in 1. Jackson's A's beat them in the playoffs. Jackson was once quoted as saying of Martin, . During spring training at the Yankees' camp in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 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 . I'm the straw that stirs the drink. Maybe I should say me and Munson, but he can only stir it bad. Not Munson, not nobody else on this club. 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 1. 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 . Martin made the change and Jackson's hitting improved (he had 1. RBIs over his next 5. On September 1. 4, 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. The second was a much faster line drive off reliever El. With the fans chanting his name, ! It was a towering drive into the black- painted batter's eye seats in center, 4. Jackson stated afterwards that the scouting reports provided by Gene Michael and Birdie Tebbetts played a large role in his success. Jackson became the first player to win the World Series MVP award for two teams. In 2. 7 World Series games, he amassed 1. Series (the last three on first pitches), 2. RBI and a . 3. 57 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 1. Game Four). With 2. Jackson also broke Ruth's record of 2. Series; this remains a World Series record, Willie Stargell tying it in the 1. World Series. In 2. Chase Utley of the Philadelphia Phillies 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. In 1. 97. 6, while playing in Baltimore, Jackson had said, . Jackson hit a home run, and when he returned to right field the next inning, fans began throwing the Reggie bars on the field in celebration.
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