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.
One day after football practice, he approached ASU baseball coach Bobby Winkles and asked if he could join the team. After a recruiting trip, Kush decided that Jackson had the ability and willingness to work to join the squad. 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. His father wanted his son to go to college, where Jackson wanted to play both football and baseball. 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". For baseball, Jackson was scouted by Hans Lobert of the San Francisco Giants who was desperate to sign him.
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(Oklahoma had black football players before 1964, including Prentice Gautt, a star running back recruited in 1957, who played in the NFL.) 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. Collegiate athletic career įor football, Jackson was recruited by Alabama, Georgia, and Oklahoma, all of whom were willing to break the color barrier just for Jackson. In the middle of his senior year, Jackson's father was arrested for bootlegging and was sentenced to six months in jail. Doctors told Jackson that he might never walk again, let alone play football, but Jackson defied the odds again. 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. He was told by the doctors he was never to play football again, but Jackson returned for the final game of the season. A tailback in football, he injured his knee in an early season game in his junior year in the fall of 1962. Jackson graduated from Cheltenham High School in 1964, where he excelled in football, basketball, baseball, and track and field. Martinez Jackson was a single father, and theirs was one of the few black families in Wyncote. His parents divorced when he was six his mother took three of his siblings with her, while his father took Jackson three of the siblings from his first marriage, though one sibling later returned to Wyncote. He also had two half-siblings from his father's first marriage. He was the youngest of his mother Clara's four children. His father, Martinez Jackson, who was half Puerto Rican, worked as a tailor and was a former second baseman with the Newark Eagles of Negro league baseball. Jackson was born in the Wyncote neighborhood of Cheltenham Township, just north of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jackson led his teams to first place ten times over his 21-year baseball career and suffered only two losing seasons. Jackson currently serves as a special advisor to the Houston Astros, and a sixth championship associated with Jackson came with Houston's win in the 2022 World Series. The Yankees retired his uniform number in 1993, and the Athletics retired it in 2004.
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He won two Silver Slugger Awards, the AL Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award in 1973, two World Series MVP Awards and the Babe Ruth Award in 1977.
Jackson hit 563 career home runs and was an American League (AL) All-Star for 14 seasons. Jackson hit three consecutive home runs at Yankee Stadium in the clinching game six of the 1977 World Series. He also helped the California Angels win two AL West divisional titles in 19. Jackson helped New York win four American League East divisional pennants, three American League pennants and back to back World Series titles, in 19. He helped Oakland win five consecutive American League West divisional titles, three straight American League pennants and three consecutive World Series titles from 1972 to 1974. October" for his clutch hitting in the postseason with the Athletics and the Yankees. Jackson was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1993.
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Reginald Martinez Jackson (born May 18, 1946) is an American former professional baseball right fielder who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City / Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, and California Angels. Kansas City / Oakland Athletics ( 1967– 1975).October 4, 1987, for the Oakland Athletics June 9, 1967, for the Kansas City Athletics
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