Reggie Jackson (baseball player)

Reggie Jackson
Rightfielder
Born: May 18, 1946 Wyncote , United States
Strikes: Left	Throws: Left
Debut in Major League Baseball
July 9,  1967  at the  Kansas City Athletics
Last MLB assignment
October 4,  1987  with the  Oakland Athletics
MLB statistics (until end of career)
Batting average	, 262
Hits	2,584
Home runs	563
Runs Batted In	1,702
Strikeouts	2,597
Teams
Kansas City / Oakland Athletics (1967–197) Baltimore Orioles (1976) New York Yankees (1977-1981) California Angels (1982–1986) Oakland Athletics (1987)
Awards
14 × All-Star (1969, 1971–1975, 1977–1984) 5 x World Series winner (1972- 1974 , 1977 , 1978 ) AL MVP (1973) 2 × World Series MVP (1973, 1977) 2 × Silver Slugger Award (1980, 1982) 4 × best batsman in the AL (1973, 1975, 1980, 1982) Batsman with the most RBIs in the AL (1973) In his honor, the # 9 is no longer awarded at the Oakland Athletics In his honor, the # 44 is no longer awarded by the New York Yankees
member of
Baseball Hall of Fame
Recorded	1993
Quota	93.6%

Reginald Martinez "Reggie" Jackson (born May 18, 1946 in Wyncote , Pennsylvania ) is a retired American baseball player in Major League Baseball .

Life

Jackson was a player in the US Major Leagues from 1967 to 1987 . He has particularly distinguished himself through a larger number of phenomenal appearances in the play-offs and the championship ( World Series ), which gives him the name “Mr. October “because the play-offs always take place in the first days of October and the championship is decided at the end of the third or fourth week of October.

This was certainly helped by the fact that he belonged to both the Oakland Athletics and the New York Yankees at times when both teams were in their prime, the so-called A's with their three titles from 1972 to 1974 and the Yankees with two championships in 1977 and 1978. As a classic power hitter , Jackson was able to occupy ninth place on the all-time record list with 563 home runs in his career, surpassing such legends as Mickey Mantle or Lou Gehrig . Jackson was also the first and so far only player who could achieve at least 100 home runs each in the service of three different baseball clubs (Oakland Athletics, New York Yankees and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim ).

His most admired "feat" came in the sixth game of the 1977 World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers , when he hit three home runs in that one game. This had previously only been achieved by the legendary Babe Ruth in World Series games. However, Jackson managed this on only three pitches , that is, he came to the stroke three times during the course of the game as part of the line-up ( batting order ) and each time hit the very first throw offered to him over the back wall of the field at Yankee Stadium, and this against three different pitchers . The Dodgers' first baseman Steve Garvey is said to have later said he secretly applauded Jackson inside his glove after the third of those home runs. Jackson was also able to achieve a total of five home runs in this World Series. Since the Yankees were leading three to two games by then, Jackson's spectacular performance also largely won game six and thus the title with 4: 2 games.

In the 1988 film The Naked Cannon , he played a hypnotic baseball player who tried to kill Queen Elizabeth II .

Awards and honors

• World Series MVP 1973 and 1977
• Jackson was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1993 .
• At the MLB All-Star Game 2008 he threw the ceremonial first pitch together with Whitey Ford , Rich Gossage and Yogi Berra .

Web links

Commons : Reggie Jackson  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Player information and statistics from Baseball Reference  or  Fangraphs  or  The Baseball Cube  or  Baseball Reference (Minor League) (English)
• Official Homepage of Reggie Jackson (English)
• Reggie Jackson in the Hall of Fame (English)