Reggie jackson baseball facts

Jackson was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in in his first year of eligibility. Jackson was nicknamed " Mr. October " for his clutch hitting in the postseason with the Athletics and the Yankees.

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Jackson hit three consecutive home runs at Yankee Stadium in the clinching game six of the World Series. Jackson additionally holds the record for most career strikeouts by a batter. The Yankees retired his uniform number in , and the Athletics retired it in Jackson led his teams to first place eleven times over his year baseball career and had only two losing seasons.

His father, Martinez Jackson, who was half Puerto Rican , [ 5 ] worked as a tailor and was a former second baseman with the Newark Eagles of Negro league baseball. He also had two half-siblings from his father's first marriage. Jackson graduated from Cheltenham High School in , where he excelled in football , basketball , baseball, and track and field.

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.