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Becoming Mr. October / Reggie Jackson with Kevin Baker.

by Jackson, Reggie.

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Doubleday, [2013].

796.357092 J13b

Jackson, Reggie.

Steinbrenner, George M. (George Michael), 1930-

Martin, Billy, 1928-

New York Yankees (Baseball team)

Baseball players, Black -- United States -- Biography.

Baseball players -- United States -- Biography.

Athletes, Black -- United States -- Biography.

9780385533119 (hc.)

038553311X (hc.)

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291 p., 8 un-numbered p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Bull in the ring -- Birmingham -- Gunslingers -- Leaving Charlie O. -- "Like a guy trying to hustle a girl in a bar" -- "Any specific player" -- Billy -- The hole in the doughnut -- The article -- Boston -- Eye exam -- Calling my dad -- Hiding in the bathroom -- Pinch hitter -- "Another chapter in the tumultuous life of the Yankees" -- "That's three, mom!" -- Sitting in the rocking chair -- Reggie! Bar -- Here we go again -- Forcing the issue -- "One's a born liar" -- "A very simple game for children" -- Catching Boston -- "I hit it to the Prudential Building" -- "Finding a prize in the weeds" -- Epilogue: "Nothing gold can stay."

"A soul-baring, brutally candid, and richly eventful memoir of the two years,1977 and 1978, when Reggie Jackson went from outcast to Yankee legend. In the spring of 1977 Reggie Jackson should have been on top of the world. The best player of the Oakland A's dynasty, he was the first big-money free agent, wooed and flattered by George Steinbrenner into coming to the New York Yankees, which hadn't won a World Series since 1962. But Reggie was about to learn, as he writes in this vivid and surprising memoir, that until his initial experience on the Yankees 'I didn’t know what alone meant.' His manager, the mercurial Billy Martin, never wanted him on the team and let Reggie and the rest of the team know it. Most of his new teammates, resentful of his contract, were aloof at best and hostile at worst. Brash and outspoken, but unused to the ferocity of New York's tabloid culture, Reggie hadn't realized how rumor and offhand remarks can turn into screaming negative headlines -- especially for a Black athlete with a multimillion-dollar contract. Reggie vowed to persevere. Gradually, he won over the fans, then his teammates, as the Yankees surged to the pennant. And one magical autumn evening, he became 'Mr. October' in a World Series performance for the ages. He thought his travails were over -- until the next season when the insanity began again. A revelatory self-portrait of a baseball icon at the height of his public fame and private anguish. Filled with revealing anecdotes about the notorious 'Bronx Zoo' Yankees of the late 1970s and bluntly honest portrayals of his teammates and competitors, this is eye-opening baseball history as can be told only by the man who lived it"--P. [2] of cover.

Baker, Kevin, 1958-

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