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. Jackson graduated from Cheltenham High 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 four his mother took four of his siblings with her, while his father took Jackson and one 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 four children from his mother, Clara. His father was Martinez Jackson, a half Puerto Rican, who worked as a tailor and who 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. Jackson currently serves as a special advisor to the Yankees. The Yankees and Athletics retired his team uniform number in 19. 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 6 of the 1977 World Series. He also helped the California Angels win two AL West divisional pennants in 19. ![]() Jackson helped New York win four American League East divisional pennants, three American League pennants and two consecutive World Series titles, from 1977 to 1981. He helped Oakland win five consecutive American League West divisional pennants, three consecutive American League pennants and three consecutive World Series titles, from 1971 to 1975. 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. Reginald Martinez "Reggie" Jackson (born May 18, 1946) is an American former professional baseball right fielder who played 21 seasons for the Kansas City / Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, and California Angels of Major League Baseball (MLB).
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