It was a thrill to be a young Yankee fan in the 70s. I was 11 in 77 when Yankee stadium was like the Bronx Zoo. Those guys were wild. How I miss those days.
I remember watching this live om WPIX in New York. I was maybe 13 or 14 at the time. Will never forget Jackson all smiles clapping while getting carried off 🤣🤣🤣
I remember watching this as a kid in my parents room because they didn't want to watch baseball. I didn't understand why Reggie rushed the mound; it was epic!! I kept yelling for anyone to come see it on replay but they didn't care, lol. A nice special moment I had to myself.
This era of the Yankees was not to be f#€!ed with. Reggie was unforgiving if you intentionally threw at him. But Reggie may have (or DID) bring these pitches on himself. What an era. I still believe that fighting has an odd way of keeping sports a bit cleaner. Not always, however. But the threat helped curb a lot of nastiness. During this era, many games would have been far worse than they already were, out of control even.
Reggie had the best batting stance in the 80s. Pete Rose second. The way Reggie ran the bases after a home was so cool to me for some reason. 80s baseball was the best!
70s and 80s PEOPLE were the best. Today, all people suck. Either their parents spoiled them too much, or they were brainwashed that they are victims who need to rebel constantly over nothing.
Remember the Reggie bars? They were the best! This is my favorite ERA of the Yankees.... Craig Nettles, Bucky Dent, Willie Randolph, Chris Chambliss, Thurman Munson, Roy White, Oscar Gamble, Bobby Murcer, Reggie Jackson, Ron Guidry, Goose Gosage, Ed Figueroa, Catfish Hunter, Brian Doyle, Paul Blair, Lou Pinella, Mickey (Mick The Quick) Rivers. I was a young kid, and a we went to a detroit tigers double header at yankee stadium 1978. This young black kid was probably 2 years younger than me, and he was crying and screaming for a Reggie Jackson bat, as it was bat day. I yelled down to him, and fans relayed the message, who do you got? The fans told me he had A Thurman Munson bat. I INSTANTLY traded with him. We were both so happy. I will Never forget it............ Great memories! Also, after the double header was over, a fight broke out as were were leaving. My Dad picked me up and my brother up by the back of our necks and ran us to the bus, as people were swinging baseball bats and NYC Cops were on horses trying to stop the chaos. We made it back to the bus safely. We were scared out of our minds as me and my brother were 9 and 11 years old. Our first trip to Yankee stadium! Lol.
Great story Brian. I was from Kansas City and loved the big Royals vs Yankees playoff battles and rivalries in the late 70's. You guys has so many big stars and my really only super star was George Brett. I was a big fan of Hal McRae, John Mayberry and Amos Otis too from back then. Glad you made it back to the bus in one piece. Great times and memories for sure!
I was 10-years old when the Blue Jays brought MLB to Toronto. I remember that entire Yankees team like it was yesterday. Reggie Jackson was larger than life.
The Reggie Bar was amazing. I’d walk all the way across town to buy one when I was a kid (11). I think they cost .50 each. That was a lot of money for a kid that mowed big ass lawns for $2 and it would take several hours to mow, rake and trim.
Announcer calmly says " here we go".. that is Reggie Jackson. Watching him play you just new something was gonna happen. A true legend.. Great baseball player!
Jackson was a showman (and let's face it, a showboater.) I was at Yankee Stadium when he hit those three home runs in Game 6 of the '77 Series. I was 10 years old and it was magical. I was also there on opening day '78 when everyone threw their Reggie bars onto the field after he hit one. I had already eaten mine, LOL!
Jackson did not start the fight. The picture kept running his mouth. Look how close the pitcher is way off the mound. You can tell Reggie was responding to something which was said.
I totally agree. The tackle was not pre-meditated. I think the pitcher got so close in order to trash talk. I guarantee Reggie was planning on heading back to the dugout after the homer. Now, from an ethical standpoint, attacking someone physically for what they said verbally is not good. I think Reggie should have just smiled and waved. To me, that is the best way to deal with someone running their mouth!
@@uilleannaddict If someone deliberately throws something at your head, and then later they also taunt you, ethically you're allowed beat them into a concussion.
This is why Reggie is universally loved. He didn't give an F what everybody thought. He'd showboat and watch his dingers leave the park. If players had a problem, Reggie was always willing to step up and talk about it LOL. No half-stepping from Mr. October
My dad, who died last year, is the biggest reason I became a baseball fan (he was a Cubs fan. I was White Sox. Go figure!). Anyway, he and I used to have arguments over whether Jackson was a great player or not. He didn't, I did. They were always friendly, mind you, and they never devolved into quarrels. He just thought he was more talk and less, combined with his poor defensive play. I thought his bat more than made up for it. And as Buddy Ryan once said, it isn't bragging if you can back it up (yeah, I know, a different sport, but we were both Bears fans). At his memorial service last year, I told the crowd about this, and I concluded that part of what I said by saying this- "Dad, all I can say now is this - if I agreed with you, we would both be wrong." The folks at the church had a good laugh. And so did I. I miss you, Dad. And Reggie, thanks for the memories. I would happily put you on my Strat-o-Matic team any day.
Strat-o-matic! I could play that game endlessly as kid! Omg i loved it! U brought back memories!! I knew every stat from 1986 season! That was when first played it
@@Johnnyrocks34 They sure do! They have a computer version of the game as well as the cards and dice. Check them out. I started playing in 1994. Wish I still had my old cards...
@@BB-rm3xi Willie did not hit as well in the post-season as during the regular season, though he didn’t get many at bats. Anyway his hitting isn’t the whole story, as Vic Wertz could tell you.
@@maninthemiddle55 he still had over 100 at bats and 1 homerun. Reggie had 18 in under 300. I'm not saying Reggie had the better career cause obviously he didn't. But it's like arod and jeter. Arod had a better career. But who would you want at the plate in the postseason. Unless it's arod 2009 I surely want jeter.
@@BB-rm3xi Agreed that nobody was better at the plate than Reggie in October, but that isn’t at odds with saying that Willie was one of the most clutch players to ever play. If the Giants had made more post-season appearances I don’t doubt that Willie would have steadily improved his post-season average.
The "Regeroo" as the late great Phil Rizzuto would call him was always a blast to watch. I remember the "Bronx Zoo" with great fondest. Those were the days of baseball.
Baseball today just isn't the same... this is playground baseball with several HOF'ers involved. It's just so much more fun to watch (and I imagine to play).
@@philvacanti1446 Actually in the marine corps in Okinawa, Japan I was told by a Staff Sergeant who also was a preacher at my church and held Bible studies for a group of us that he threatened Mickey Rivers in high school. Mickey Rivers was the running back for the opposing team and he decided to come to the opposing team's high school and brag how he was going to run all crazy over them. So Staff Sergeant Patterson and his teammates told Rivers just because you came here and bragged we're going to hit you hard on every chance we get. During the game they had Rivers running scared and they popped him everytime they could catch him. This is in Miami.
ken you are so right. I just buried my oldest brother (he died too young at 61) and he absolutely adored Reggie back in the 70's and 80s. so many fond memories of Mr. October way back in the day. My brother was the biggest Yankee fan in the state of Virginia and his fav Yankee of all time was none other than Mr. October Reggie Jackson.
As a lifelong Cubs fan Reggie Jackson single handedly made me a Yankees fan, that 77 world series was fantastic I was 13 years old, now I always root for the Yankees except when they play the Cubs.
That must have been in 1981. Winfield started playing with the Yankees in 1981 and then after that Year, Reggie started playing for the Angels. Thanks 👍.
Yes. Winfield was my favorite player. Him and Jackson played one season together. Winfield would have hit 40 plus homeruns a year if Reggie was batting behind him.
@@anthonyadedona3499 Dave Winfield was a great player. He did struggle in the 1981 World Series. In the 1992 World Series, he did help the Toronto Blue Jays win the World Series. He is in the Hall of Fame. Thanks 👍.
Reggie Jackson and a Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Mike Caldwell also had a little altercation. So did Craig Nettles and Jim Gantner. I can't remember the year, between 78-80? The Brewers and the Yankees hated each other when the Brewers were in the AL EAST back in the 70's. Billy Martin, Lou Pinella, oh we hated each other.
I looked it up. July 27, 1979, Mike Caldwell pitch drops Jackson, he threw his bat and Caldwell broke it over his knee. Then 💥 💥 💥 💥 💥 FIGHT! The two comments below are portions of what the Milwaukee Journal/ Sentinel said about the game the Brewers won 6-5 over the big bad Yankees. It started a feud that lasted a LONG TIME! Brewers fans HATED the Yankees, and the Yankees saw the Brewers as a substitute for a real team. We didn't have the 100+ million dollar payroll. We were a small market team who had no business winning, but we did, and when we kicked their asses, they got MAD! LOL 😆 😂 🤣 😅 😹 😆 😂 🤣 😅 IT WAS EPIC!
Thirty-five years ago Sunday - July 27, 1979 - the Brewers' first baseman smashed three homers, including the game-winner off future Hall of Famer Goose Gossage with two out in the bottom of the ninth, to lift the Brewers to a 6-5 victory over the New York Yankees. If you were among the 47,928 who shook and rocked old County Stadium's metal bones that night, you surely remember what it was like. Eighty-six degrees at game time, the humidity plastering hair to foreheads and shirts to backs...the air crackling with big-moment electricity...the despised Bronx Bombers, the defending World Series champions, with their pinstriped arrogance and their cast of larger-than-life characters...the upstart Brewers, coming off the first winning season in franchise history in '78 and itching for more. "They were ornery guys who thought they were supposed to win," Cooper said of the Yankees. "And we were kind of starting to feel the same way." It was a Friday night, the opener of a three-game series that would be filled with edge-of-your-seat tension, bench-clearing brawls and theatrical fireworks.
Oscar Gamble (RIP) had a pretty funny line afterwards. Talking about how he and Bobby Brown carried Reggie off the field: "I don't mind helping out, but if I'm going to be carrying Reggie out of games, he needs to lose some weight!" 😂
Winny was right in there!!! 4 seasons later hass would be a bomber an fan favorite during the 85 season which was orsome we just mised to the freakin blue jays last series of the year at the blue jays wound up 97-64 jays 99-63 freakin hated them with a passion along with Detroit brewers Texas Seattle always had a hard time when we played these clubs even when they had poor teams! Sports is horrible these days to put it nicely!!!! Messer on the Reg home run call Scooter n bill white they were the best!!!!🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🦏🐘🦍🐅🐼🐬🦖
Jackson had a very poor year in 1981, but every time he would pop a home run you just had the feeling that he was going to break out of his slump and just start killing the ball. Didn't happen in 1981, but he rebounded with the Angels in 1982 and had, in my opinion, his last truly outstanding season that year. He tied Gorman Thomas for the HR lead in 1982 with 39, and was a big reason for the Angels winning the AL West title that year. They nearly beat Milwaukee in the playoffs, too.
Reggie was the man and Winfield was a beast, too. Dave would hit the lowest line drive homers I've ever seen. He was built just like Andre Dawson. Those guys didn't lift weights like they do now.
I got to see Winfield play during the latter part of his career with the Twins. The guy hit a triple. He was absolutely smoking around the bases like he was 19 years old. Great player.
You’re so right. I’m from San Diego. I once saw Winfield hit a line drive double off the wall in center field in Jack Murphy Stadium, some 420 feet away!
Beating up a pitcher after hitting a home run, what a concept back then!! Nowadays, just admiring your home run for more than a microsecond triggers a bench clear (McCann-ism).
This is so great...Winfield's reaction was priceless: Reggie high-fives him, then shoots past him to go after the pitcher, and Winfield is like, "whoa whoa whoa!!!" and follows him.
I remember this. Reggie had his priorities in order: homer off the pitcher, briskly round the bases, tip the cap to the crowd, celebrate at the plate with teammates, attack the pitcher and spark an all out brawl. Baseball like it oughta be.
I remember watching this live!! Reggie laughing as he was carried off the field has always stuck in my mind, like he's saying "I homered off of him and I kicked his ass too!"
Yeah............I remember watching this as a teenager. I'll never forget it. Love Reggie, Winfield and John Denny actually. They replayed this on "This Week in Baseball" also. Only they played the song "Boy from New York City" over the video. I miss this week in baseball. Different times. Different game now.
If Phil the scooter Rizzuto was in the booth he'd be saying his catch phrase Holy Cow Reggie is going on a rampage. Growing up in the 1970's and 1980's Bill White,Frank Messer and Phil Rizzuto were the voices of Yankees baseball.
Nothing like the ump giving him another chance after the pitcher clearly struck him out (1:43), hitting a homer, then attacking the pitcher. Reggie put the A into the hole.
Im sure nothing happened to the animal for attacking him . I mean hell. Hit a home run and attack a pitcher. Every pitch shown before that was nothing to be upset about.
My all time never-to-be-topped ball player from first time I saw him. Still have the poster that hung on my toolbox at work for 34 years. Cool as summer rain.
Like a freight train coming at you, he would start his slide about half way to second ! This was back in the day where a hard slide (hard, not dirty) was just what you were trained to do since Little League.
Platooning at first base- Driesen/Perez Second base- Morgan Third base- Rose Shortstop- Concepcion Left field- Foster Center- Geronimo Right field- Griffey Sr. Catcher- Bench Pitchers- too many good ones And I hated them all, but you can’t take away from their greatness. And the Skipper, a product of the LAUSD’s Dorsey High- Sparky Anderson
When I was a kid every kid wanted to be #44. Reggie hit those towering homeruns and backed up his talk, what kid wouldn’t want to be that playing in a sandlot.
Mr October is one greatest baseball player's of all time he is the straw that stirs the drink when I was a kid he was my hero I saw that three homerun game in 77 it was simply phenomenal three Homer's offf three consecutive pitches that will never be repeated again so God bless the greatest slugger in the world Reggie Jackson ✌️
I'll guarantee you one fuckin thing - Billy never backed down from him and didn't take any bullshit from him either - Billy was all about the team - Reggie was all about Reggie - pure and simple - Why do you think Billy loved Rickey Henderson so much ? Because even though Rickey sometimes referred to himself in third person - Rickey was all about the team - and he played even when he was banged up + not Reggie -
What a gift from the gods. This has all the elements of a classic bench clearing brawl. What makes this so unique is it happened AFTER the home run was hit. That's what puts it in a class by itself. I can't recall that ever happening before let alone since. The beauty of it is that by baiting the pitcher with the top of the cap to the crowd, he got the pitcher to walk toward him, so after he touched home, Reggie didn't even have to charge the mound, the pitcher did all the leg work for him, lol, Reggie roped a dope him right into his trap, it was like give me three steps, three steps mister, only instead of make it out the door, he ran all upside his head. This is masterpiece theatre. Id never seen or knew this existed, but now I don't know how I lived without it. Reggie was a physical specimen, but this is proof positive he was also a genius general of strategy and instinct on the ball field battlefield. The battle is over just after war was declared.. Reggie is so many things at once and multi faceted human being. That pitcher wanted a taste of the Reggie bar and Reggie was all to happy to break off a piece of that for him....all up on his scronny ass. Glorious, BayBee, glorious.
I'm still a NY Yankees fan to date. But I was a die-hard Yankees fan when I started watching the NY Yankees on channel 11 Alive. Regardless of opinions for Reggie, it was always an event to watch him bat every game. I so loved the game of baseball. I loved browsing through the stats. Always liked watching "This Week In Baseball." Loved keeping up with other teams. I also subscribed to a baseball magazine called "Baseball Digest" during the mid 1970s & '80s. Reggie was always a polarizing player. You either loved him or hated him. As a kid, I revered Reggie as a player. My old man on the other hand had a disdain for Reggie. He would acknowledge that Reggie was a great player during big moments, but often frowned when sharing opinions about Reggie.
You. This week in Baseball with Mel Allen was fantastic. I liked Reggie with the A's. The romance in baseball is now gone. Similar to the glory days of horse racing, boxing and music. Have a great day.
I agree with what your dad thought about Reggie. He was very over rated in my opinion. "The straw that stirs the drink", disruptive and very egotistical is the way I would describe him. Very few of the other Yankee players liked the guy. I liked Thurman back then NOT Reggie. Reggie seemed to be all about Reggie all the time and when they did not re-sign him I was happy. I've been a Yankees fan since the late 1960's and I also subscribed to Baseball Digest in the 1970's. Baseball was better back then in my opinion, but that is another story.
People now a Days will never know the thrill of Reggie Jackson Hitting a Home Run.You knew when he hit one and so did he.He would watch that Home Run go over the Fence.Reggie Thank You for making my Childhood a Great One Sir
WTF? Was this video was all about classless bush legue play! This was 100% analytic. How many times did babe, Lou G., Joe D. the Mick charge the mound, never! Mr. Big Pu$$y not October!
Reggie was no stranger to brawling. He did a lot of it in Oakland against his own teammates, especially Bill North who also liked to fight. Those were the good ol days, lol.
@@matta3968 I heard about Reggie vs Bill North. There was another player on the A's roster that nearly choked out Reggie inside the clubhouse during a fight according to a story Gene Tenace shared with media and fans.
Back when baseball was the shit.i remember waiting for the game of the week on Saturdays and me and my parents going to my friend's house to watch allstar games with him and his family.when 95% of America could actually name 5 to 10 baseball players
Remember you have to be a great player be around long enough to strike out more than anyone else. Just like Nolan Ryan walked more people than anybody else but nobody remembers him walking anybody. What day do remember is Robin Ventura's face running into Nolan Ryan's hand six times.🤣
I believe he could have hit the furthest home run of all time. I was at a Mariners game, and Jackson hit the ball so hard it hit the top of the King Dome, the ball was caught, but ump called home run.. Ump said the ball would have been past the parking lot had the roof not got in the way. Everyone in the stands agreed, stood up and cheered as they gave the other team a home run, due to how insane that hit was.
Happy 76th Birthday Reggie. Reginald Martinez Jackson May 18, 1946 Abington Township, PA A baseball living legend known for his baseball savy and toughness. Many, many more Reginald Martinez.
@@peggylavelle581 - How did Reggie get 2600 hits, 563 HRs, and 1700 RBIs by only playing well "in October?" You have some interesting dingbat logic. Reggie was among the most liked teammates. You've been fooled by alcoholic manager Billy Martin's antics, a 1970s/80s NY media full of writers who looked like you and share your attitudes, and some NY Yankee prima donnas who never won anything until Jackson arrived in town and won it for them. HR hitters usually lead the league in strikeouts...everybody knows it comes with the territory. Geez, what a ditz.
I remember a fight Reggie Jackson was in it was against the Detroit Tigers and Willie Horton had him pinned up against the dug out beaten the crap out of Reggie Jackson. No one in the league really wanted to take on Willy Horton.
@@Murcans-worship-felons Winfield was a Gahtdamn giant. I remember watching him at bat and was like, “What’s he swingin’ with? A toothpick?” The guy was enormous.
I've never seen both teams celebrate a homerun together like that, high level sportsmanship
Haha yeah a real show of altruism in athletics. The good ol days
They hugged it out on the ground how affectionate.
Proves Reggie was just a big kid..
LOL!! 🤣 Yeah that was the good old 1970s in NYC. You get mugged and stabbed if they really liked you!!
@@LionZebra 80s
True, every one rushing to deescalate
“And.. Jackson’s got him this time!!” 😂😆 That was EPIC ‼️
The way Jackson clapped his hands when his teammates carried the hall of famer to the dugout . Classic .😂😂😂
Only ran up there cus teammates went with him he too chicken to go by himself
@@a-ddaigrepont3375Nah Bro
@@a-ddaigrepont3375Nah…it looks like Reggie could fight which is very rare for an athlete.
didn't realise what a scumbag Jackson was.
He was an ass.
What a legend. Hits home run, does his trot, tackles the pitcher. Amazing.
It was a thrill to be a young Yankee fan in the 70s. I was 11 in 77 when Yankee stadium was like the Bronx Zoo. Those guys were wild. How I miss those days.
Late 90s was better
just being a baseball fan in general in the 70s 80s and even the very early 90s was awesome, nothing like baseball today.
New York sucked then and it sucks now not much is changed
@@KoolKeithProductions you are wrong sir ,billy Martin Reggie 14 games back Boston massacre ,Fisk vs Munson wild times and they still won
Used to go to games in 3rd grade. Epic.
How come WWII footage looks like it was filmed yesterday and this looks like it was shot 200 years ago with a potato?
Lol! I'm dead 😂
Video vs film.
HAha
With a POTATO!!! Lololol!!
Bigfoot camera. Same factory as the Loch Ness and UFO cameras.
Nothing like hitting a homer and then beating up the pitcher. Reggie ruled.
5 years of a speakers murder is comm police done done nothing
Nothing like a strikeout which wasn't called.
@@Future_Legend_Told_Me Here's a tissue. Cry some more.
@@Future_Legend_Told_Me Loooooked a bit outside.
@@Future_Legend_Told_Me nothing like a whiney baseball fan
I remember watching this live om WPIX in New York. I was maybe 13 or 14 at the time. Will never forget Jackson all smiles clapping while getting carried off 🤣🤣🤣
Love everything about this. The best is when he takes his batting helmet off to salute the crowd half way down the third base line 🤣🤣🤣
The swing, the bat flip (drop) the show-boating,
I remember watching this as a kid in my parents room because they didn't want to watch baseball. I didn't understand why Reggie rushed the mound; it was epic!! I kept yelling for anyone to come see it on replay but they didn't care, lol. A nice special moment I had to myself.
@M&M that's awesome to hear....I was born at the end of 70. I think it was the only time he rushed the pitcher after a homerun
Why did he rush the mound?
@@malliemartin8696 Search for NYT article titled, "Jackson, decked by pitch, homers as brawl ensues"
@@GORILLA_PIMP See my reply to Mallie
@@malliemartin8696 the pitcher threw a knock down pitch during Reggies last at bad. I guess he doesn't forgive too easily, lol
Back when baseball was truly exciting.
TH-cam has the best baseball. My favorites are all star games.
Hey man the 80's and early 90's were just as good. Nowadays batters run to first base while texting.
and you could almost stay awake for the whole game.
Like I needed to be re-reminded why Reggie was such a D-Bag.
Did you hear the one about we went to a UFC match last night and a baseball game broke out?
I always loved how Winfield has his back and tackled the catcher.
Good eye.
Dave Winfield was awesome. Still is. ONe of my all-time favorite Yankees. Big ole' # 31. And what a ball player he was!
@@jimmyz2098 Dave Winfield was also a racist
This era of the Yankees was not to be f#€!ed with.
Reggie was unforgiving if you intentionally threw at him. But Reggie may have (or DID) bring these pitches on himself.
What an era.
I still believe that fighting has an odd way of keeping sports a bit cleaner. Not always, however. But the threat helped curb a lot of nastiness. During this era, many games would have been far worse than they already were, out of control even.
Super Dave! 👍
Reggie had the sweetest home run trots of all time.
Mantle's was classic too and I tried to imitate it, not that I hit that many homeruns.
The good old days of authentic drama in MLB. I'm glad I was born when I was to be in my teens when these epic rivalries played out.
I grew up in LA watching Drysdale, Koufax, Bench and listening to Vince Scully. It was wonderful!
Reggie had the best batting stance in the 80s. Pete Rose second. The way Reggie ran the bases after a home was so cool to me for some reason. 80s baseball was the best!
70s and 80s PEOPLE were the best. Today, all people suck. Either their parents spoiled them too much, or they were brainwashed that they are victims who need to rebel constantly over nothing.
The way he ran to the pitchers mound even better!
@@uncasunga1800 LoL, yup! There'll be only one Reggie!
80s everything was better.
@@omgDavidGlasper it was good but not Reggie
Remember the Reggie bars? They were the best! This is my favorite ERA of the Yankees.... Craig Nettles, Bucky Dent, Willie Randolph, Chris Chambliss,
Thurman Munson, Roy White, Oscar Gamble, Bobby Murcer, Reggie Jackson, Ron Guidry, Goose Gosage, Ed Figueroa, Catfish Hunter, Brian Doyle, Paul Blair, Lou Pinella, Mickey (Mick The Quick) Rivers. I was a young kid, and a we went to a detroit tigers double header at yankee stadium 1978. This young black kid was probably 2 years younger than me, and he was crying and screaming for a Reggie Jackson bat, as it was bat day. I yelled down to him, and fans relayed the message, who do you got? The fans told me he had A Thurman Munson bat. I INSTANTLY traded with him. We were both so happy. I will Never forget it............
Great memories! Also, after the double header was over, a fight broke out as were were leaving. My Dad picked me up and my brother up by the back of our necks
and ran us to the bus, as people were swinging baseball bats and NYC Cops were on horses trying to stop the chaos. We made it back to the bus safely.
We were scared out of our minds as me and my brother were 9 and 11 years old. Our first trip to Yankee stadium! Lol.
Great story Brian. I was from Kansas City and loved the big Royals vs Yankees playoff battles and rivalries in the late 70's. You guys has so many big stars and my really only super star was George Brett. I was a big fan of Hal McRae, John Mayberry and Amos Otis too from back then. Glad you made it back to the bus in one piece. Great times and memories for sure!
Bronx zoo 😝
I was 10-years old when the Blue Jays brought MLB to Toronto. I remember that entire Yankees team like it was yesterday. Reggie Jackson was larger than life.
The Reggie Bar was amazing. I’d walk all the way across town to buy one when I was a kid (11). I think they cost .50 each. That was a lot of money for a kid that mowed big ass lawns for $2 and it would take several hours to mow, rake and trim.
@@pauldeahl3980 thats slave labor, i would have paid you good, wtf lol.
Announcer calmly says " here we go".. that is Reggie Jackson. Watching him play you just new something was gonna happen. A true legend.. Great baseball player!
Jackson was a showman (and let's face it, a showboater.) I was at Yankee Stadium when he hit those three home runs in Game 6 of the '77 Series. I was 10 years old and it was magical. I was also there on opening day '78 when everyone threw their Reggie bars onto the field after he hit one. I had already eaten mine, LOL!
Great memories, huh? Reggie bars,not many athletes get candy bars named after them! 👍👍
@@chrispafrieddreams9118 Yeah that Babe Ruth was a heckuva tennis player tho
@@uncasunga1800 ..lol..hey numpty.....what part of "not many"...did you not understand?
@@leeshackelford7517 You do know the candy bar is not named after the "Babe", but was around before he was even born?
@@robbarbieri8676 really I had no idea
I love how he made sure he scored the run before he started the fight, knowing he'd likely be ejected.
Jackson did not start the fight. The picture kept running his mouth. Look how close the pitcher is way off the mound. You can tell Reggie was responding to something which was said.
I totally agree. The tackle was not pre-meditated. I think the pitcher got so close in order to trash talk. I guarantee Reggie was planning on heading back to the dugout after the homer.
Now, from an ethical standpoint, attacking someone physically for what they said verbally is not good. I think Reggie should have just smiled and waved. To me, that is the best way to deal with someone running their mouth!
@@uilleannaddictexcept there was a lot going on before that homerun and things just boiled over. The announcers act like they were expecting it
@@uilleannaddict If someone deliberately throws something at your head, and then later they also taunt you, ethically you're allowed beat them into a concussion.
@@SamBrickell 😂 facts
This is why Reggie is universally loved. He didn't give an F what everybody thought. He'd showboat and watch his dingers leave the park. If players had a problem, Reggie was always willing to step up and talk about it LOL. No half-stepping from Mr. October
I would spend some time looking up the word "universally," if I were you. 🤣
Reggie made me want to play little league and we won the championship 2 out of 3 years
I mean that’s why people like Trump
Reggie did make sure he touched homeplate before he went after the pitcher.
RJ was a chump...
My dad, who died last year, is the biggest reason I became a baseball fan (he was a Cubs fan. I was White Sox. Go figure!). Anyway, he and I used to have arguments over whether Jackson was a great player or not. He didn't, I did. They were always friendly, mind you, and they never devolved into quarrels. He just thought he was more talk and less, combined with his poor defensive play. I thought his bat more than made up for it. And as Buddy Ryan once said, it isn't bragging if you can back it up (yeah, I know, a different sport, but we were both Bears fans).
At his memorial service last year, I told the crowd about this, and I concluded that part of what I said by saying this- "Dad, all I can say now is this - if I agreed with you, we would both be wrong."
The folks at the church had a good laugh. And so did I.
I miss you, Dad. And Reggie, thanks for the memories. I would happily put you on my Strat-o-Matic team any day.
Strat-o-matic! I could play that game endlessly as kid! Omg i loved it! U brought back memories!! I knew every stat from 1986 season! That was when first played it
Strat!!! We played also. Great times in the basement on rainy days.
@@dieselbourbon3728 same here! What year. I bought the 86 and 88 season. Do they still make it? I cant imagine kids doing that still
@@Johnnyrocks34 They sure do! They have a computer version of the game as well as the cards and dice. Check them out.
I started playing in 1994. Wish I still had my old cards...
@@DaDitka oh wow! Thats cool! How does play on computer? Roll computerized dice?
Never forget about this game. I watched it live on TV channel 11 Wpix.
Cool
Frank Messer, such a great broadcasting voice, a total pro. Never overstates, never understates, always on the money.
Now we have Joe Buck 🤦🏻♂️😆
Spot on.
Grew up listening to Phil Rizzuto, Bill White, and Frank Messer . . . the best.
@@vinf.4197 Phil was a blast, White & Messer were gifted broadcasters. We had it good.
@@Moose1032 he is to baseball what Nickelback is to rick n roll
Mr. October and Mr. May. No one better than Reggie in pressure situations. I loved watching him.
Except perhaps Willie Mays.
@@maninthemiddle55uh Mays was a .240 hitter in his playoff career with 1 homerun. So wtf are you talking about?
@@BB-rm3xi Willie did not hit as well in the post-season as during the regular season, though he didn’t get many at bats. Anyway his hitting isn’t the whole story, as Vic Wertz could tell you.
@@maninthemiddle55 he still had over 100 at bats and 1 homerun. Reggie had 18 in under 300.
I'm not saying Reggie had the better career cause obviously he didn't.
But it's like arod and jeter. Arod had a better career. But who would you want at the plate in the postseason. Unless it's arod 2009 I surely want jeter.
@@BB-rm3xi Agreed that nobody was better at the plate than Reggie in October, but that isn’t at odds with saying that Willie was one of the most clutch players to ever play.
If the Giants had made more post-season appearances I don’t doubt that Willie would have steadily improved his post-season average.
The "Regeroo" as the late great Phil Rizzuto would call him was always a blast to watch. I remember the "Bronx Zoo" with great fondest. Those were the days of baseball.
At least he crossed home plate before he started the fight😂😅🤣
Dam that was great 👍
"Remember, pillage and rape FIRST!... THEN burn..." - Viking leader.
Gotta make sure it's official before throwing down! 😂
He had to or run doesn't count!
He didn't start the fight..he finished the fight..
That brush back wasn't even close to him
Reggie is a Yankee but we here in Philly also take pride in him...a native of Wyncote. Played with the heart of a lion.
Jackson was an arrogant s o b. Too bad the pitcher did knock the s . . T out of him.
Really? I didn't know that.
Oakland A's
I forgot how big Reggie was. He was a formidable dude.
I saw him play in Oakland in the early 70s. When he came up to bat he looked like GI Joe while everyone else on the field looked like army men.
He wasn't really that big. He used a step stool to see what was on the top shelf of his fridge. True story.
@@jonhohensee3258he wasnt that tall but had a football player's body
@@gato7908 Which football player? Did Reggie keep it in a freezer?
@@jonhohensee3258, are you a tard?
Reggie was a savage! Lol 😂 My favorite player when I was a kid just slightly ahead of Thurman Munson. God bless him
Thurman Munson was one of my favorites, too. ❤
"Here they come, and there they go!" What a great call!!!
I like the commentator during the fight...Here they come and there they go lol
Hehehe
Frank Messer and Bill White
Baseball today just isn't the same... this is playground baseball with several HOF'ers involved. It's just so much more fun to watch (and I imagine to play).
@@wadsworthaaron 💯💯💯
@@Caddy313 thanks for the info
If someone is going to follow you into a fight and have your back, Winfield is a good choice. Dude is a giant.
What about Mickey Rivers? That dude looked like he had crackhead strength.
@@philvacanti1446
Actually in the marine corps in Okinawa, Japan I was told by a Staff Sergeant who also was a preacher at my church and held Bible studies for a group of us that he threatened Mickey Rivers in high school.
Mickey Rivers was the running back for the opposing team and he decided to come to the opposing team's high school and brag how he was going to run all crazy over them. So Staff Sergeant Patterson and his teammates told Rivers just because you came here and bragged we're going to hit you hard on every chance we get.
During the game they had Rivers running scared and they popped him everytime they could catch him. This is in Miami.
@philvacanti1446 if he was white would you have used the term "crackhead"? Asking for a friend
Nobody in the last 30 years has been as exciting and clutch as Reggie in the post season. Mr. October. 💪⚾🧢
ken you are so right. I just buried my oldest brother (he died too young at 61) and he absolutely adored Reggie back in the 70's and 80s. so many fond memories of Mr. October way back in the day. My brother was the biggest Yankee fan in the state of Virginia and his fav Yankee of all time was none other than Mr. October Reggie Jackson.
Big Poppie...GOAT... Sorry
@@advicemaster1365 Goat? maybe for eating chicken-pot pie
As a lifelong Cubs fan Reggie Jackson single handedly made me a Yankees fan, that 77 world series was fantastic I was 13 years old, now I always root for the Yankees except when they play the Cubs.
that's awesome cary @@carystorm1863
i always enjoyed watching reggie playing
That must have been in 1981. Winfield started playing with the Yankees in 1981 and then after that Year, Reggie started playing for the Angels. Thanks 👍.
Yes. Winfield was my favorite player. Him and Jackson played one season together. Winfield would have hit 40 plus homeruns a year if Reggie was batting behind him.
@@anthonyadedona3499 Dave Winfield was a great player. He did struggle in the 1981 World Series. In the 1992 World Series, he did help the Toronto Blue Jays win the World Series. He is in the Hall of Fame. Thanks 👍.
Reggie Jackson and a Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Mike Caldwell also had a little altercation. So did Craig Nettles and Jim Gantner. I can't remember the year, between 78-80? The Brewers and the Yankees hated each other when the Brewers were in the AL EAST back in the 70's. Billy Martin, Lou Pinella, oh we hated each other.
I looked it up. July 27, 1979, Mike Caldwell pitch drops Jackson, he threw his bat and Caldwell broke it over his knee. Then 💥 💥 💥 💥 💥 FIGHT! The two comments below are portions of what the Milwaukee Journal/ Sentinel said about the game the Brewers won 6-5 over the big bad Yankees. It started a feud that lasted a LONG TIME! Brewers fans HATED the Yankees, and the Yankees saw the Brewers as a substitute for a real team. We didn't have the 100+ million dollar payroll. We were a small market team who had no business winning, but we did, and when we kicked their asses, they got MAD! LOL 😆 😂 🤣 😅 😹 😆 😂 🤣 😅 IT WAS EPIC!
Thirty-five years ago Sunday - July 27, 1979 - the Brewers' first baseman smashed three homers, including the game-winner off future Hall of Famer Goose Gossage with two out in the bottom of the ninth, to lift the Brewers to a 6-5 victory over the New York Yankees.
If you were among the 47,928 who shook and rocked old County Stadium's metal bones that night, you surely remember what it was like.
Eighty-six degrees at game time, the humidity plastering hair to foreheads and shirts to backs...the air crackling with big-moment electricity...the despised Bronx Bombers, the defending World Series champions, with their pinstriped arrogance and their cast of larger-than-life characters...the upstart Brewers, coming off the first winning season in franchise history in '78 and itching for more.
"They were ornery guys who thought they were supposed to win," Cooper said of the Yankees. "And we were kind of starting to feel the same way."
It was a Friday night, the opener of a three-game series that would be filled with edge-of-your-seat tension, bench-clearing brawls and theatrical fireworks.
That change-up looked like strike 3 to me.
Razz Matazz: To you: Yes.
That ball was up
Good thing the ump can see and you can’t.
Me too!
It was strike 3 but all these major sports leagues are scripted to the finish... including the fights.
He knew exactly where he was going after he touched home. He lit that ball up...damn.
He knew exactly where he was going once he corked one off his bat lol
Reggie had the smoothest swing of anyone I ever saw!
And Jackson got him this time 🤣 legendary call!
2 guys are carrying him off and he starts clapping!
Classic Reggie
Oscar Gamble (RIP) had a pretty funny line afterwards. Talking about how he and Bobby Brown carried Reggie off the field: "I don't mind helping out, but if I'm going to be carrying Reggie out of games, he needs to lose some weight!" 😂
That change-up sure looked danged close. I've seen similar pitches called a strike.
From the sound the crowd made, they thought so, too. 😳
It might have been a tad high but hard to tell with the angle. The HP UMP was fooled though I imagine. It was a great pitch for sure.
That was a strike.
Yankees were the best at buying championships, and umpires.
High and outside buddy good umpire
When asked why he picked Reggie up and carried him off the field, Bobby Brown replied, “Its my prerogative.”
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Why can’t he just live his life?
Underrated comment!
He can do what he wants to do
Ha
Love how Winfield takes out catcher Ron Hassey after Jackson charges the mound.
Winny was right in there!!! 4 seasons later hass would be a bomber an fan favorite during the 85 season which was orsome we just mised to the freakin blue jays last series of the year at the blue jays wound up 97-64 jays 99-63 freakin hated them with a passion along with Detroit brewers Texas Seattle always had a hard time when we played these clubs even when they had poor teams! Sports is horrible these days to put it nicely!!!! Messer on the Reg home run call Scooter n bill white they were the best!!!!🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🦏🐘🦍🐅🐼🐬🦖
Showing up a pitcher was less accepted back then than it is today.
Reggie was so relaxed at the plate. No one has ever duplicated his stance and swing. He knew he was the man.
yeah, but i was also thinking, that when Reggie missed a pitch, almost no one looks worse on a swing and miss than he does lol
No where near in the goat conversation
Ken Griffey Jr. Did!,Jr. had a Very Relaxed Swing!,and There was Probably No Sweeter Left Handed Swing in All of Baseball than Jr's!!!
@@rgarrison1819 Barry Bonds had a sweeter swing in terms of baseball. Best hitter of all time.
A lot of kids TRIED to duplicate and emulate Jackson. A lot of whiffle-bat Reggie Jacksons :)
This was 1981, Reggies last year with the Yankees.
And Winfield's first.
Jackson had a very poor year in 1981, but every time he would pop a home run you just had the feeling that he was going to break out of his slump and just start killing the ball. Didn't happen in 1981, but he rebounded with the Angels in 1982 and had, in my opinion, his last truly outstanding season that year. He tied Gorman Thomas for the HR lead in 1982 with 39, and was a big reason for the Angels winning the AL West title that year. They nearly beat Milwaukee in the playoffs, too.
@@DaDitka Gorman Thomas was a fearsome looking individual.
The Yankees retired this clown's number having only played 5 years with them. Ridiculous.
@@frogger1952 Did you see him play?
Reggie Jackson was the only MLB player I ever gave an eff about. Legend.
Loved his Bat Drops. Understated...Goooodbye...
Reggie taking off his Jersey at the end like it's Monday Night Raw and he's going back in the ring. LOL
Reggie was the man and Winfield was a beast, too. Dave would hit the lowest line drive homers I've ever seen. He was built just like Andre Dawson. Those guys didn't lift weights like they do now.
Winfield was a joy to watch. Yep, he hit ROCKETS and was a S U P E R B athlete... loved watching him go from first to third; he could do it all!
I got to see Winfield play during the latter part of his career with the Twins. The guy hit a triple. He was absolutely smoking around the bases like he was 19 years old. Great player.
was about to say, the hawk was the same. line drive homers with that tomahawk swing. i used to emulate his stance.
Dave was always a fan favorite when he played for the Padres. He was a joy to watch
You’re so right. I’m from San Diego. I once saw Winfield hit a line drive double off the wall in center field in Jack Murphy Stadium, some 420 feet away!
When I saw the house Reggie grew up in, I was a fan for life.
Remember when Reggie said that he was the "straw that stired the drink"? A true showman...
Simply Beautiful Reggie Beautiful Reggie
Reggie was just giving him a noogie was all, no punch was thrown
Reggie pimping it wt the tip of the cap right before grabbing the pitcher in the head lock was gold😭😭
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lest the public forget, Mr. Jackson was a football player who just happened to play Major League Baseball.
Just like Rickey Henderson
@@roybuford7538 and Bo-J.
How would you like to cover second with Winfield coming in like that?
I dont watch sports but this was the most legendary sports play I ever seen 😅
Beating up a pitcher after hitting a home run, what a concept back then!! Nowadays, just admiring your home run for more than a microsecond triggers a bench clear (McCann-ism).
Still love watching Reggie swing the bat!!
This is so great...Winfield's reaction was priceless: Reggie high-fives him, then shoots past him to go after the pitcher, and Winfield is like, "whoa whoa whoa!!!" and follows him.
I remember this. Reggie had his priorities in order: homer off the pitcher, briskly round the bases, tip the cap to the crowd, celebrate at the plate with teammates, attack the pitcher and spark an all out brawl. Baseball like it oughta be.
Nobody wanted any part of Dave Winfield. In his prime, he was a bad, bad man. Incredible all around athlete and strong as hell.
Haha..he dived right in and took down the catcher so Reggie could do some work!
I remember watching this live!! Reggie laughing as he was carried off the field has always stuck in my mind, like he's saying "I homered off of him and I kicked his ass too!"
Live?! Wow! You're so cool! No one watched it live...
@@ATalkingBadger You're an idiot. You are *precisely* the sort of person that ruins TH-cam comment sections.
@@ATalkingBadger your comment comes off as douchey
Those Reggie Bars were good!! I use to eat one before every game
Who was the pitcher and what team?
Yeah............I remember watching this as a teenager. I'll never forget it.
Love Reggie, Winfield and John Denny actually.
They replayed this on "This Week in Baseball" also.
Only they played the song "Boy from New York City" over the video.
I miss this week in baseball.
Different times.
Different game now.
Would have loved to see Jackson watch his home run against Madison Bumgarner.
If Phil the scooter Rizzuto was in the booth he'd be saying his catch phrase Holy Cow Reggie is going on a rampage. Growing up in the 1970's and 1980's Bill White,Frank Messer and Phil Rizzuto were the voices of Yankees baseball.
NY channel 11 WPiX. Brings back memories.
Nothing like the ump giving him another chance after the pitcher clearly struck him out (1:43), hitting a homer, then attacking the pitcher. Reggie put the A into the hole.
Angel Hernandez father was the umpire.
Im sure nothing happened to the animal for attacking him
. I mean hell. Hit a home run and attack a pitcher. Every pitch shown before that was nothing to be upset about.
My all time never-to-be-topped ball player from first time I saw him. Still have the poster that hung on my toolbox at work for 34 years.
Cool as summer rain.
Reggie was quite a showman, and a helluva ballplayer!
The good ol’ days, when batters would even the score after someone threw an object at 90mph at their heads.
Winfield had to be a bit intimidating coming hard into 2nd
And Winfield took out the Indians catcher so Jackson could rip the pitcher a new one!
Like a freight train coming at you, he would start his slide about half way to second ! This was back in the day where a hard slide (hard, not dirty) was just what you were trained to do since Little League.
Winfield was intimidating _standing_ _still_ .
And flopping around like a Tuna 😆
Nothing like the Cincinnati reds sweeping the Yankees in 1976. Beautiful. Couldn't happen to a better team.
Year after reds beat Boston
Reds had some hitters to
that's was once in a lifetime never to happen again!!!
Platooning at first base- Driesen/Perez
Second base- Morgan
Third base- Rose
Shortstop- Concepcion
Left field- Foster
Center- Geronimo
Right field- Griffey Sr.
Catcher- Bench
Pitchers- too many good ones
And I hated them all, but you can’t take away from their greatness.
And the Skipper, a product of the LAUSD’s Dorsey High- Sparky Anderson
@Joe Burkhart yeah, no kidding
The TV commercial….REGGIEVISION
Mr. October EPIC!!!🎉😂🎉😂🎉😂🎉
When I was a kid every kid wanted to be #44. Reggie hit those towering homeruns and backed up his talk, what kid wouldn’t want to be that playing in a sandlot.
Mr October is one greatest baseball player's of all time he is the straw that stirs the drink when I was a kid he was my hero I saw that three homerun game in 77 it was simply phenomenal three Homer's offf three consecutive pitches that will never be repeated again so God bless the greatest slugger in the world Reggie Jackson ✌️
i remember watching it when i was 6 years old. me and my oldest brother called all 3.
& Billy Martin thought he could kick Reggie's ass? Damn strong whiskey
True!
Haha
No joke, he was probably on more than alcohol to think that.
I'll guarantee you one fuckin thing - Billy never backed down from him and didn't take any bullshit from him either - Billy was all about the team - Reggie was all about Reggie - pure and simple - Why do you think Billy loved Rickey Henderson so much ?
Because even though Rickey sometimes referred to himself in third person - Rickey was all about the team - and he played even when he was banged up + not Reggie -
@@davidrice3337 Reggie was a winner....and knew he couldn't put his hands on his manager.
That Reggie Jackson is pretty great.
Two great plays by Jackson in one at bat. Legendary.
That’s how a man deals with disrespect. You run your mouth you get put on your back and reminded to be nice. Well done Reggie!
What a gift from the gods. This has all the elements of a classic bench clearing brawl. What makes this so unique is it happened AFTER the home run was hit. That's what puts it in a class by itself. I can't recall that ever happening before let alone since. The beauty of it is that by baiting the pitcher with the top of the cap to the crowd, he got the pitcher to walk toward him, so after he touched home, Reggie didn't even have to charge the mound, the pitcher did all the leg work for him, lol, Reggie roped a dope him right into his trap, it was like give me three steps, three steps mister, only instead of make it out the door, he ran all upside his head. This is masterpiece theatre. Id never seen or knew this existed, but now I don't know how I lived without it. Reggie was a physical specimen, but this is proof positive he was also a genius general of strategy and instinct on the ball field battlefield. The battle is over just after war was declared.. Reggie is so many things at once and multi faceted human being. That pitcher wanted a taste of the Reggie bar and Reggie was all to happy to break off a piece of that for him....all up on his scronny ass. Glorious, BayBee, glorious.
Cringe.
I'm still a NY Yankees fan to date. But I was a die-hard Yankees fan when I started watching the NY Yankees on channel 11 Alive. Regardless of opinions for Reggie, it was always an event to watch him bat every game. I so loved the game of baseball. I loved browsing through the stats. Always liked watching "This Week In Baseball." Loved keeping up with other teams. I also subscribed to a baseball magazine called "Baseball Digest" during the mid 1970s & '80s. Reggie was always a polarizing player. You either loved him or hated him. As a kid, I revered Reggie as a player. My old man on the other hand had a disdain for Reggie. He would acknowledge that Reggie was a great player during big moments, but often frowned when sharing opinions about Reggie.
Wow! We have so much in common when it comes to this subject!
Ya meant WPIX 11
@@cylentkills Yes sir!
You. This week in Baseball with Mel Allen was fantastic. I liked Reggie with the A's. The romance in baseball is now gone. Similar to the glory days of horse racing, boxing and music. Have a great day.
I agree with what your dad thought about Reggie. He was very over rated in my opinion.
"The straw that stirs the drink", disruptive and very egotistical is the way I would describe him.
Very few of the other Yankee players liked the guy. I liked Thurman back then NOT Reggie.
Reggie seemed to be all about Reggie all the time and when they did not re-sign him I was happy.
I've been a Yankees fan since the late 1960's and I also subscribed to Baseball Digest in
the 1970's. Baseball was better back then in my opinion, but that is another story.
People now a Days will never know the thrill of Reggie Jackson Hitting a Home Run.You knew when he hit one and so did he.He would watch that Home Run go over the Fence.Reggie Thank You for making my Childhood a Great One Sir
REGGIE REGGIE REGGIE!!!!!!!
Back when the Yanks had a lot of heart and no analytics.
The pitchers went more than 4 innings haha 😄😆😄
WTF? Was this video was all about classless bush legue play! This was 100% analytic. How many times did babe, Lou G., Joe D. the Mick charge the mound, never! Mr. Big Pu$$y not October!
Nowadays front offices would rather micromanage and put the "anal" in analytics.
Ah yes, back when they thought Jackson was overrated for striking out and walking too much. "I mean he only hit .300 once, the bum"
As a long time wrestling coach/wrestler that was actually a technically solid headlock. He must have done some wrestling at some point.
Reggie was no stranger to brawling. He did a lot of it in Oakland against his own teammates, especially Bill North who also liked to fight. Those were the good ol days, lol.
@@matta3968 I heard about Reggie vs Bill North. There was another player on the A's roster that nearly choked out Reggie inside the clubhouse during a fight according to a story Gene Tenace shared with media and fans.
@@toddsands6000 That player may have been Rollie Fingers.
A good choke hold can knock anybody out. Quick.
Honestly coach, that was an illegal headlock. He didn't have the arm, just the head. LOL
Reginald Martinez JACKSON!!! Struck out most in MLB history, but not THAT time! What a shot! Reg-gie! Reg-gie!
Where you from greengate3d
@@flashgordon4326 Born in the Bronx but raised in Baltimore
Back when baseball was the shit.i remember waiting for the game of the week on Saturdays and me and my parents going to my friend's house to watch allstar games with him and his family.when 95% of America could actually name 5 to 10 baseball players
@@toddedwards5373 I remember reading the yearly Almanacs to look at the season stats.
Remember you have to be a great player be around long enough to strike out more than anyone else. Just like Nolan Ryan walked more people than anybody else but nobody remembers him walking anybody. What day do remember is Robin Ventura's face running into Nolan Ryan's hand six times.🤣
"Here they come!! There they go!!" That cracked me up 🤣
Reggie 's swing, 50 years latter still gives me a thrill! God l loved the 70's
Reggie loved the spotlight and he thrived when the lights came on, and regardless of whether you love him or hate him, he is the original prime time.
No. He sucked
That's why Oakland got rid of him
I remember him from 1975. We missed him in 1976. He was a pain, but we had 5 straight division championships with him.
Of baseball.
I believe he could have hit the furthest home run of all time. I was at a Mariners game, and Jackson hit the ball so hard it hit the top of the King Dome, the ball was caught, but ump called home run.. Ump said the ball would have been past the parking lot had the roof not got in the way. Everyone in the stands agreed, stood up and cheered as they gave the other team a home run, due to how insane that hit was.
Happy 76th Birthday Reggie. Reginald Martinez Jackson May 18, 1946 Abington Township, PA
A baseball living legend known for his baseball savy and toughness.
Many, many more Reginald Martinez.
Reggie Jackson got ejected from the ball game after hitting a home run. It’s crazy.
Reggie was an outstanding football player
Jackson was outstanding at everything
@@R_J_G Not really . He was a bad teammate and always lead the league in strike outs. He was named Mr. October because that's when he played well.
@@peggylavelle581 so he was good at winning lol
@@peggylavelle581 - How did Reggie get 2600 hits, 563 HRs, and 1700 RBIs by only playing well "in October?" You have some interesting dingbat logic. Reggie was among the most liked teammates. You've been fooled by alcoholic manager Billy Martin's antics, a 1970s/80s NY media full of writers who looked like you and share your attitudes, and some NY Yankee prima donnas who never won anything until Jackson arrived in town and won it for them. HR hitters usually lead the league in strikeouts...everybody knows it comes with the territory. Geez, what a ditz.
He played for Frank Kush at Arizona State.
Reggie was built like a linebacker. That pitcher didn’t have prayer lol
Reggie Jackson...what a Yankee legend! I miss those days...
Me too
As a Royals fan, I don't. He definitely put on a show in October though.
I remember watching this game on WPIX Channel 11 in 1981!! I was 12...miss those days!!
Reggie-Reggie-Reggie
I’m guessing the pitcher wasn’t asking Reggie for an autograph.
I remember a fight Reggie Jackson was in it was against the Detroit Tigers and Willie Horton had him pinned up against the dug out beaten the crap out of Reggie Jackson. No one in the league really wanted to take on Willy Horton.
I remember that also.
Yes. Willie was a *^%#% . Perez, Seaver and Winfield were not to be trifled with, either.
@@Murcans-worship-felons Winfield was a Gahtdamn giant. I remember watching him at bat and was like, “What’s he swingin’ with? A toothpick?” The guy was enormous.
Horton was a beast
@@Grimloxz I felt that way here in Cincy when I met Glenn Braggs. lol he was not small