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  1. Watched this documentary on Amazon Prime. Loved it. I was a kid during the 1977 World Series and he was my hero. I still have his baseball card from that season. #Reggie #ReggieJackson #MrOctober

  2. Recently I saw #ReggieJackson at a sportscaster round table reminiscing about his experience as a black player in minor league baseball in the Jim Crow South. He was brutally honest about the #racism he faced. Legal #slavery may have ended, but practical slavery, the #colonization of ones’ own person, was still in full force. The only way he survived as a black player was because white team mates and managers stood up for him: “If he doesn't eat here, WE don't eat here.” I seem to recall that when my late father-in-law was stationed in the Jim Crow South, he was ordered not to eat in segregated towns that refused to serve black service members. #Solidarity with the #oppressed was the answer. #Oppression remains unchallenged as long as we are not willing to deny ourselves the benefits of membership in the #privileged #class.

  3. Always remember. Even when you feel even a "little down" with these MAGA motherfucker revisionists. This is what it was, and it is what a lot of them want it to be again.

    Reggie remembering from the heart, telling it like it was, overwhelming this baseball telecast.

    youtu.be/R4mWOVy_02s?si=CiivV6

    #racism #reggiejackson #majorleaguebaseball #history #blackhistory

  4. This is very important. Not at all ancient history -- very much in living memory. When he says he could've been killed, it is not an exaggeration. #baseball #baseballhistory #blackhistory #reggiejackson #mlb #negroleagues #williemays

    youtu.be/GMH2z4lFvZw?si=pVEoWx

  5. Reggie Jackson on Willie Mays' legacy & emotions of visiting Rickwood Field ⚾

    “I walked into restaurants and they would point at me and say 'the n***** can't eat here.' I would go to a hotel and they said, 'the n***** can't stay here.' ”

    youtube.com/watch?v=GMH2z4lFvZ

    #Baseball #RickwoodField #Birmingham #WillieMays #ReggieJackson #MLB #Racism #Sports #MrOctober #ReggieBar #BullConnor #KKK

  6. I was 6 when Reggie Jackson hit 3 consecutive homers in the world series. I remember it happening but not understanding what the big deal was. Soon the Yanks winning would become routine.

    Reggie is a childhood hero of mine. My parents took me to spring training in Fort Lauderdale some years later. I met all the great players. Reggie was the most gracious of them all.

    I don't sportsball anymore but I still experience nostalgia for the icons from when I did.

    #reggiejackson

  7. Last night, Major League Baseball legend Reggie Jackson was asked in a Fox Sports show about how he felt about returning to Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Ala., for a Negro League tribute game. The 78-year-old, who started his MLB career in Birmingham in 1967, did not hold back. He told interviewer Alex Rodriguez about his experience of racial slurs and being denied entry to restaurants and hotels, in a city where the Ku Klux Klan was committing attacks of racial hatred. Here's the story from NBC, including the full video.

    flip.it/cvlXTF

    #BlackHistory #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon #USHistory #Baseball #MLB #ReggieJackson

  8. Very much worth reading. There are a lot of people who want to go back to this bullshit. Fuck them, and vote for people who find this treatment reprehensible.

    MLB at Rickwood Field: Reggie Jackson recalls racist treatment in Alabama in stunning interview

    sports.yahoo.com/mlb-at-rickwo

    #MLB #Racism #ReggieJackson #Alabama #Baseball