New York Yankees Reggie Jackson, #44, in action against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 6 of the World Series. (Walter Iooss Jr. /Sports Illustrated via Getty Images) ...

But Reggie Jackson? He was of “my time” — not those times. Jackson’s career stretched from 1967 to 1987. When he started out, I was in preschool, and when he finished, I was in grad school.

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – During a recent Fox Sports pregame show appearance, Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson was asked about his return to Birmingham, Alabama’s Rickwood Field, where ...

In 1967, before he advanced to the majors, Jackson was one of the few Black players on the Birmingham A’s Double-A Southern League team. The team played at Rickwood Field until 1963.

Reggie Jackson’s recounting last week of the racism he endured while playing in Birmingham in 1967 “reinforces why DEI programs and initiatives must exist,” another Hall of Famer in a ...

That would have been the perfect time for Reggie to add: “Just imagine how much Willie loved baseball to put up with that, to stay focused, to keep his temper, and he was facing this 19 years ...

During a recent tribute game at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, baseball Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson offered a poignant reflection on his experiences with racism in the sport.

Jackson, a Hall of Famer, has often expressed his feelings about playing in the Deep South in 1967 while in the minor leagues in Birmingham, Alabama, but on this day at a luncheon in the afternoon ...