REMEMBERING REGGIE JACKSON

REMEMBERING REGGIE JACKSON

"He'd give you the shirt off his back. Of course, he'd call a press conference to announce it." - Catfish Hunter 

          "Off the record, he's a piece of shit." –Billy Martin

Out of the blue the man who once seemingly made headlines all the time came out of the shadows recently to dominate baseball pages again. The Yankees were matched up against the Cardinals and the former straw that stirred the drink proclaimed that the trade the Redbirds executed for Paul Goldschmidt was “the best deal of the winter, by far.  Steal of the century".

          It is well worth remembering what Reginald Martinez Jackson was in his time. He spent only five years as a Yankee in a 21- year Major League career. But what those five years were like . . .      

           Reggie Jackson in pinstripes seemed an appropriate match. In November 1976 he announced that he came to the Yankees because “George Steinbrenner outhustled everybody else. Certain things have a lot more meaning than money. It was easy to see I could become a rich man. Some clubs offered several thousand more; there was even the possibility of seven figures more.”

        The Yankees won the 1976 AL East pennant in a romp, squeezed through to win the American League title and were swept by Cincinnati’s “Big Red Machine” in the World Series.

          A ticked-off George Steinbrenner first signed free agent Don Gullet of Cincinnati for $2.09 million. Then he signed Reggie Jackson, the most prized free agent of all, to the highest salary contract in baseball then.

Steinbrenner’s first offer was $2 million, then raised to $2.9 million with an extra sweetener of $60,000 for Jackson to purchase a Rolls-Royce. Waiting for several hours in the Hyatt at O'Hare Airport, “the Boss” was determined. He got his man. Details of the contract were scribbled on the back of a cocktail napkin as was the signature of Reggie Jackson who wrote on the napkin: "I will not let you down. –Reginald M. Jackson."

Born on May 18, 1946 in Wyncote, Pennsylvania, Jackson was one of six children, He showed off his athletic talents from the start. In high school, he was   a four-sport varsity athlete. He starred in football and baseball at Arizona State. After his sophomore season, he was scooped up by the Kansas City Athletics with the No. 2 pick of the 1966 draft. Incredibly, the New York Mets had the Number One pick and passed on Reggie Jackson.

By 1967, he was in the big leagues. Owner Charley Finley moved Jackson and other talented youngsters and the team to Oakland. There were five straight AL West titles 1971-1975 that Jackson was a big part of as well as three World Series and an MVP award. With free agency for Jackson on the horizon, Finley traded him to Baltimore. After one year with the Orioles, it was -- enter George Steinbrenner!

The talent was always there for Reggie Jackson, so was the big mouth. A self-promoter and a deprecator of others, he bragged: "I didn't come to New York to be a star. I brought my star with me."           

He came to the Yankees with lots of baggage, the verbal kind. Many on the Yankee roster and in the media thought he went too far with his running commentary that included lines like: 

"God do I love to hit that little round sum-bitch out of the park and make 'em say 'Wow! Hitting is better than sex."

“In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium."

"The only difference between me and the other great Yankees is my skin color."

"You know this team . . . it all flows from me. I've got to keep it going. I'm the straw that stirs the drink. . ."

"After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Jackson, I really mean that."

       He had the mouth. He also had the goods.

In Reggie Jackson’s first season as a Yankee, he led the team to its first world championship in 15 years.

          "The writers were never late that year," recalled Phil Rizzuto, "because something was always going on. A lot of egos were vying for the headlines."      

The headline of headlines belonged to October 18th, 1977 as Reggie Jackson became "Mr. October." The Yankees were up three games to two against the Los Angeles Dodgers and Jackson literally took over game six. He hit a home run on the first pitch in the fourth, fifth and eighth innings. 

        The controversial slugger was on fire in that World Series, batting a blazing.450 with the record five homers. Jackson also recorded the highest slugging average in a six-game Series (1.250), most total bases in a six-game Series (25), most runs (tied with 10).

          George Steinbrenner’s signing of Jackson paid off big time. There was joy in the Bronx for most.  “Mr. October” was what Reggie Jackson was called for his post-season heroics. “Mr. Obnoxious” was what he was called for his over-the-top arrogance.

          One can only wonder about the comments made by Jackson about Steinbrenner after the 1977 World Championship: “I was happy for George because George wanted it so bad. I said to myself, ‘Now he can really have fun at the 21 Club. He’ll go around and give rings to his friends and he’ll be able to talk about this one as long as he lives.”

            Reggie maintained if he played in New York, a candy bar would be named for him. He called the shot. Opening Day 1978 at the Stadium was “Reggie Bar” giveaway day. Catfish Hunter described the orange wrapped candy this way: "Open it and it tells you how good it is." The crowd received free samples. Reggie blasted a three-run homer. Thousands of the orange-wrapped candies were thrown out onto the field. It was a marketing and public relations disaster, an embarrassment. Chicago pitcher Wilbur Wood, who gave up the home run, was beside himself.  There was annoyance among the press, some outrage among players.

             “It’s not called for,” the generally calm White Sox manager Bob Lemon was agitated. “Let them throw them when he’s in right field,” Lemon said. “See how he feels. People starving all over the world and 30 billion calories are laying there.”

          It was called “the Bronx Zoo” and other earthier phrases, that general environment around the Yankees. There was always something going wrong, some annoyance magnified big time.

           A case in point took place on Saturday afternoon June 18, 1978 in a game against the Red Sox at Fenway Park. Reggie was the centerpiece, some would day the catalyst for what happened.

The game was on national TV. The Yankees were being blown out by the Red Sox. In the sixth inning, Boston’s Jim Rice lifted a ball into short right field. Playing deep for the slugger, who had power to all fields, Jackson got to the ball after it landed. Poor judgment on his part, he later claimed.

An annoyed, an always annoyed Billy Martin, it seemed with Jackson, sent reserve outfielder Paul Blair running out to right field. Jackson went berserk – never had he been taken out of a game in his long career. Later he would tell writers that Martin’s negative handling of him had racial overtones.

              A furious Jackson jogged in towards the dugout heading straight for his manager who was in the right corner. Two Yankee immortals, strong men, former catchers Yogi Berra and Elston Howard had taken up positions ready for Jackson

 “You never wanted me on this team in the first place,” Jackson yelled.

“I ought to kick your ass,” Martin shot back.

        The strong man Howard contained Jackson. Berra got into it, too. “Once that little guy gets his monkey claws on you, you ain’t goin’ nowhere,” Ron Guidry said.

All the histrionics ultimately ended. The Red Sox and their fans left Fenway happy. The home team won, 10-4, smashing five home runs.

Afterwards Billy Martin said: "When they don't hustle, I don't accept that. When a player shows the club up, I show the player up."

        For the Yankees and Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson, it was just another wacky day at the ballpark.

              Later that 1978 season a slumping Jackson was used as a designated hitter by Billy Martin. Reggie was not pleased. He shared his displeasure with anyone who would listen including owner George Steinbrenner. In one game, Martin gave Jackson the sign to swing away. He bunted. Martin suspended him for five games.

The hot-tempered trio of Steinbrenner-Jackson-Martin was big news in all the New York media. Especially publicized was Martin’s rant: "One's a born liar [Jackson]; the other's convicted,” a reference to the Boss’s conviction for illegal campaign contributions.  That comment got Martin fired and it seemed Reggie was back in vogue.

 Jackson belted 41 homers to tie for the league lead and hit .300 in 1980. But in the strike-shortened 1981 season, Jackson batted just .237 with 15 homers in 94 games.

On January 22, 1982, irritated and fed up with Steinbrenner putdowns, Reggie Jackson severed his ties with the Yankees and signed as a free agent with the California Angels. After five years of tumult in the Big Apple, the controversial and cocky outfielder was back out west.  Steinbrenner later said that letting Jackson go was "the worst decision of my career."

When Reggie Jackson was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1993, he went in as a Yankee even though lots of bad blood passed between him and management and ownership and teammates.

The Yankees retired his uniform number 44 on August 14, 1993. Reggie Jackson is currently a member of the Yankees' special advisory group.

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ABOUT

HARVEY

FROMMER

One of the most prolific and respected sports journalists and oral historians in the United States, author of the autobiographies of legends Nolan Ryan, Tony Dorsett, and Red Holzman, Dr. Harvey Frommer is an expert on the New York Yankees and has arguably written more books, articles and reviews on the New York Yankees than anyone. He was honored by the City of New York to serve as historical consultant for the re-imagined old Yankee Stadium site, Heritage Field.  A professor for more than two decades in the MALS program at Dartmouth College where he is known as “Dr. Baseball,” Frommer is the founder of www.HarveyFrommerSports.com.

Some of the material in this article is excerpted from his The Ultimate Yankee Book, available direct from the author or Amazon.  

 http://www.frommerbooks.com/ultimate-yankees.html

1927: New York Yankees, Spring Training Flashback

        1927: New York Yankees, Spring Training Flashback      

Another spring, another spring training for the Yankees of New York. All of them have had special meaning for baseball’s greatest franchise. Perhaps none was more special than for the ’27 team, best in baseball history.

Comfortable among the high and mighty or the ordinary, friendly with the press, moving around all over without body guards, Babe Ruth basked in his superstar status in spring training. Getting a close shave in the downtown barber shop, telling a few jokes each morning, visiting hospitals and cheering up the sick especially children, patiently signing autographs at the dog track, posing for photos, followed by fans on the St. Petersburg streets, wending his way from bar to bar, boating and fishing for migrating king mackerel or chasing grouper in the Gulf of Mexico, prevailing upon a hotel cook to prepare the fish for supper, the Babe was having the time of his life.

        A Yankee bridge game began in spring training. And the Babe plunged himself into that, too. The extroverted Ruth and the shy Gehrig were pitted against Mike Gazella and Don Miller, a young hurler from the University of Michigan.
      The Yankees were quartered at the Beaux Arts style Princess Martha Hotel, built in 1923. Babe Ruth was supposed to be registered there, too. But no one really saw much of him. The word was that he had meals in his rooms, leaving when he wanted to from a side door in the hotel.
        Rising early before baseball practice, he would play golf at the two-year-old Renaissance Vinoy Resort and Golf Club in downtown St. Petersburg.  Catcher Benny Bengough, pitchers Waite Hoyt and Bob Shawkey were also good golfers  and would play there, too. Ruth could drive the ball further than many pros and had scores in the mid-70s. However, the short game was not his forte. A lousy putter, the Babe would disgustedly toss his club when he hit the ball too hard causing it to roll past the cup.
     Much was made of the time a man came around that spring of 1927 and said he was the uncle of Johnny Sylvester. He made a big deal about telling all about how well Johnny Sylvester was doing.  The Bam graciously made a big deal out of sending regards.
        But moments after the uncle departed, Ruth bellowed: "Who the hell is Johnny Sylvester?" 
        Johnny Sylvester had been the subject of much newspaper attention. He was a sick kid who the Yankee slugger had promised to hit a home run for during the 1926 World Series.
       Babe Ruth just could not remember names, not even the names of teammates. Most people were called "kid," by the Babe. Others had variations like "sister" for young women and "mom" and "pop" for those with seniority. Others got nick-names, some logical, others totally illogical. The Babe called Waite Hoyt "Walter" and no one could explain why.  Pitcher Urban Shocker was dubbed "Rubber Belly" and no one not even the Babe could explain why.       

        Those who did claimed it had something to do with the flabbiness of Shocker's mid section, but they wouldn't swear to it.   Catcher Benny Bengough, who coined the name  "Jidge" (German for "George" ) for Ruth, was called "Googles," a kind of affectionate corruption of part of his surname. Catcher Pat Collins was "Horse Nose," a derogatory reference to his most prominent facial feature.  Railroad station redcaps were "Stinkweed." 

Beer baron Jake Ruppert could remember names but never addressed anyone by a first name. The Yankee owner was characterized in Ed Barrow's memoirs as an "imperious" man, one who "in all the years I knew him, always calling me 'Barrows,' adding an 's' where none belonged.

        Ruppert "was a fastidious dresser," Barrow remembered, "who had his shoes made to order, changed his clothes several times a day, and had a valet." Arriving in style with his secretary Al Brennan for spring training in St. Petersburg in his own private railroad car, it was said that the honorary Colonel savored the comforts of his own drawing room and sleeping in a silk brocade nightshirt.  Ruppert was particularly interested in and impressed with the man he had sunk all that money into.
        "Ruth looks great," he announced. "Watch that boy. In fact, he may set another home run record. The team as a whole is in fine shape, shows real fighting spirit and looks like a winner, although I admit I'm not much of a prophet." 

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About         Harvey         Frommer One of the most prolific and respected sports journalists and oral historians in the United States, author of the autobiographies of legends Nolan Ryan,  , Tony Dorsett, and Red Holzman, Dr. Harvey  Frommer is an expert on all things baseball.  A professor for more than two decades in the MALS program at Dartmouth College, Frommer was dubbed “Dartmouth’s Mr. Baseball” by their alumni magazine. He’s also the founder of www.HarveyFrommerSports.com.   Mint, signed, discounted Frommer books are available from his site.

SOX STUFF: GET READY FOR 2019 (Part II)

SOX STUFF: GET READY FOR 2019 (Part II)

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1967

1975

1986

Such sensational reactions to Part I, here is the promised follow up. Enjoy –and send those reactions in.

Wade Boggs, he could swing that bat

(9)                 Legend of the Green Monster

It was not originally green until 1947. Before that it was blue and covered with advertisements. Originally constructed to block the view of spectators on the street, the wall burned down in the 1934 fire at Fenway. It was reconstructed with tin and painted green. A journalist named it “Green Monster” for its color, 37 foot height and girth. In 1976, it was re-done in hard plastic and painted green again. 

(11)                        Hitting Bottom –1965

The Red Sox drew but 652,201—an average of 8,052 a game. On Sept. 28 against California, only 461 fans showed. The next day was just 409 were in the house. The worst had actually taken place on the 16th of September, the smallest crowd of the season made its way into Fenway Park—just 1,247 paid and 1,123 in on passes.

BOB SULLIVAN: I went to Dartmouth, and we used to road trip down to Fenway and get standing room without any trouble.   It was eight dollars for grandstand seats. But so many seats were empty.  You would flip an usher a quarter and you could move down into the seats. Then it changed. What happened was ’67. The Impossible Dream season when the Sox   

(12)                                                  Signing Baseballs

BOB SANNICANDRO:  In ’72 I was a clubhouse attendant. I had just graduated from high school.   I autographed baseballs for players.  This was before sports memorabilia really hit.  If it’s a Yaz ball, it might not be Yaz.  If it’s a Reggie Smith ball, it might not be Reggie Smith.  There was one player, I’ll leave him nameless, showed me how he signed his name.  He told me to go home and practice.  I went home and the next day he says, “Not bad, keep working at it.” 

 (13)                                  “F……g Bucky Dent home run ball-  October 2, 1978

JOE MOONEY: (former Fenway Park head groundskeeper) I got blamed for taking the ball Bucky Dent hit for the home run. I never touched it. I never spoke to Bucky Dent, but later I found out that he was accusing me. I know who took that ball he hit.  But I’d never say nothing.  We’ll leave that to history. 

(14)                                                  Joe DiMaggio

Opening day 1985 Vinnie Orlando was in his 51st season as a Red Sox clubhouse attendant. "I heard this loud knock,” Orlando said. The knocker    opened the door to the Red Sox clubhouse. “And here's this guy,” Orlando continued,” with pant cuffs out to here, shirt collars down to there, looking like Hollywood in his brown pinstripe suit. He says, 'My name's Joe DiMaggio and I want to go upstairs. Can you tell me how to go?

(15)                                                  Rats

TOM BRUNANSKY: In the 1990s, we’d hit in the batting cages out in center field during rain delays. You never, however, wanted to be the first group to hit because once you opened the door and flipped the lights on all the rats would start running out.  You always wanted to be that second or third hitting group. By then the rats would be gone.

 (16)                             Green Monster Dents

          The many missed attempts of home runs over the wall that is the Green Monster has resulted in hundreds of dents according to the Boston Globe. Some spots have been banged at least a half dozen times,

                      

(17)                           The Pesky Pole & the Fisk Pole

Boston has the only two named foul poles. The one in right field is named for legendary Johnny Pesky. The one in left field was named in 1975 after catcher Carlton Fisk who hit a 12^th inning game winner in Game 6 of the World Series that incredibly stayed fair, ricocheting off the pole.

Pesky did not hit nearly as many home runs as Fisk

JOHNNY PESKY: The term “Pesky pole” came from Mel Parnell when he was broadcasting a game with Ken Coleman and Ned Martin.  Someone hit a home run down the line and right around the pole. And Mel started talking about the time I hit a homer to win a game past the pole. I guess it was easy to recall as I only hit 17 home runs in my career. 

(18)                                 The Coca-Cola bottle 1997  

On March 19, 1997 a 25-foot was unveiled atop Fenway's left-field Wall. Lots of controversy resulted as traditionalists were aghast. Over time the single bottle evolved into a three-bottle cluster.

(19)                              Breaking the “Curse of the Bambino 2004

          DAN SHAUGHNESSY: 2004 in my view is still the greatest sports story ever told.  The idea that you would have the Red Sox win their first World Series in 86 years, to do it at the expense of the Yankees and to do it in something that hadn’t been done in 140 years in a seven-game series in baseball. The World Series was clearly anticlimactic.

The Sox swept the Cards four straight. The curse was broken.

          GAME CALL, —Joe Castiglione, 850 AM WEEI,

“Foulke to the set, the 1–0 pitch, here it is. Swing and a ground ball, stabbed by Foulke. He has it. He under hands to first. And the Boston Red Sox are the World Champions. For the first time in 86 years, the Red Sox have won baseball's World Championship. Can you believe it?”

                            

(20)                     820 Game Sellout Streak at Fenway

On April 10, 2013 only 30,862 were in attendance for a game between Baltimore and the Red Sox. That game ended an 820 game streak of sold out games that began on May 15, 2003. It was the longest attendance streak in pro sports. There was something about “the streak” to some that smacked of public relations hype and padded figures.

About   

Harvey

  Frommer

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One of the most prolific and respected sports journalists and oral historians in the United States, author of the autobiographies of legends Nolan Ryan, Tony Dorsett, and Red Holzman, Dr. Harvey Frommer is an expert on all things baseball. 

A professor for more than two decades in the MALS program at Dartmouth College, Frommer was dubbed “Dartmouth’s Mr. Baseball” by their alumni magazine. He’s also the founder of www.HarveyFrommerSports.com. 

 Mint, signed, discounted Frommer books are available from his site.

The Yankees and Spring Training Harvey Frommer Sports

The Yankees and  Spring Training

Harvey Frommer Sports

It’s that time of year where hope springs eternal for fans of baseball teams and for Yankee fans there is a long and special history of magical and amazing moments. Just a sampling follows:

1905-1906: After spending two springs in Atlanta, manager Clark Griffith moved his team to Alabama in 1905-1906. That first year the Highlanders stayed in Montgomery at the Highland Oval. Players march to and from the team hotel, which was located two miles away, to the playing field, In 1906, the team camp was at the Birmingham Training Grounds f

       1907-1912: The Yankees in Georgia during this time played in Atlanta, Macon, Athens and then Atlanta again.

1913: Seeking sanctuary from the cold and rain that had been present during previous spring trainings, the Yankees moved their camp outside of the country for the first and only time. On March 3, most of the team and support staff sailed to Hamilton, Bermuda.  A converted cricket field was used as the practice facility.   

1914: Houston, Texas is the Yankees spring training site.

1915-1918: Under manager Bill Donovan, the Yankees returned to Georgia that included a three-year stay in Macon, the team’s longest stay at one location to that point in time.

1919-1920: The Yankees became part of growing trend relocating its spring training to Florida in 1919. All three New York teams were there, the Giants in Gainesville, the Yankees and Dodgers in Jacksonville. “The clubs expect to benefit by the arrangement, for it will give each club the advantage of playing against major league opposition from the very start of the training season,” noted the New York Times.

1920: Newly acquired Babe Ruth was part of the 1920 spring training environment. At an exhibition game he went into the bleachers to mix it up with a taunting fan. When the fan showed off his knife, Ruth backed off and went back to the safety of the playing field. Had Ruth not held his temper, the whole course of Yankee history may have been different.

1921-1924: Louisiana was the spring training location for the Yankees. In 1921, they trained in Shreveport.  From 1922 to 1924, the club trained in New Orleans. T

   1925-1942: St. Petersburg, Florida and the New York Yankees had a longstanding and highly successful relationship. 

1943-1945:  World War II precluded teams traveling very far from home for spring training. In 1943, the Yankees made use of a high school in Asbury Park, New Jersey. The final two years of the war saw them training in the 112th Field Artillery Armory and playing exhibition games at Bader Field in Atlantic City.

1946-1950: The Yankee returned to St. Petersburg, Florida when WWII was over. In 1947, they moved into a new stadium, Al Lang Field. It was joint home for the Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals.

          1951: Spring training was in Arizona, the first and only time for the Yankees. The one-year trade-off of training sites was a courtesy by the New York Giants to Yankees’ co-owner and vice president Del Webb, who hailed from Phoenix.

1952-1961: It was back to St. Petersburg in 1952 for the Yankees. As the fifties moved on New York was dissatisfied with what was perceived as favoritism toward the Cardinals with whom they shared the spring training site with. There was a Yankee disappointment with spring training proceeds that went to the city. The spring of 1961 was the last for the Yankees in St. Petersburg. Yankee co-owner Dan Topping said: “In St. Petersburg, we practice on one field and play on another. In Fort Lauderdale, we would have the town to ourselves”.

1962-1995: The Yankees brand new $600,000 Ft. Lauderdale Stadium is ready for spring training. The ballpark broke new ground with seating for 8,000, air-conditioned clubhouses, on-site offices.

              1996-Present: The Yankees moved to George Steinbrenner’s adopted home town, Tampa, Florida. Legends Field, a state-of-the-art $30 million facility with identical dimensions to Yankee Stadium, received rave reviews. Seating capacity was 10,200 and expanded to 11,026 in 2007.  It was re-named George M. Steinbrenner Field in 2008.

                             Terrific selected tidbits

JERRY COLEMAN: Spring training of 1948 I was trying to make the Yankees.  I was the last man cut. I played for the Newark Bears in the International League and came up to the Yankees at the end of the season.

            Going north from spring training, we'd pass through small towns and people would be out there early in the morning as the train went by, waving to us. I don't know how they got the word - but we'd be having our breakfast in the diner and they'd be there.

In spring training 1951, former Yankee outfield star Tommy Henrich was assigned to mentor the young and talented prospect. After a while the former star Yankee outfielder said: “There isn't any more that I can teach him."

 Casey Stengel that first spring switched Mantle to the outfield and said: "I never saw a player who had greater promise. That young fellow has me terribly confused. He should have a year in Triple A Ball but with his combination of speed and power he should win the triple batting crown every year. In fact, he should do anything he wants to do.”

Later, Casey who had seen it all, added: "They're been a lot of fast men but none as big and strong as Mantle. He's gonna be around a long time, if he can stay well, that fella of mine."

BILL SKOWRON: Casey would leave us alone to get in shape in spring training. But when those last 10 days of spring training came around you knew you had to be better ready to play.

            In spring training 1927, Babe Ruth bet pitcher Wilcy Moore $l00 that he would not get more than three hits all season. A notoriously weak hitter, Moore somehow managed six hits in 75 at bats.  Ruth paid off his debt and Moore purchased two mules for his farm naming them "Babe" and "Ruth."

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One of the most prolific and respected sports journalists and oral historians in the United States, author of the autobiographies of legends Nolan

Ryan, Tony Dorsett, and Red Holzman, Dr. Harvey Frommer is an expert on the New York Yankees and has arguably written more books, articles and reviews on the New York Yankees than anyone. He was honored by the City of New York to serve as historical consultant for the re-imagined old Yankee Stadium site, Heritage Field

A professor for more than two decades in the MALS program at Dartmouth College, Frommer was dubbed “Dartmouth’s Mr. Baseball” by their alumni magazine. He’s also the founder of www.HarveyFrommerSports.com.