Reggie Jackson
Subtitle: the life and thunderous career of baseball's Mr. October
By: Dayn Perry
Edition: 1st HarperLuxe edition.
Publisher: HarperLuxe
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780061945717
Subjects: Baseball players; Biography; Large type books; New York Yankees (Baseball team)
Description: Baseball Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson earned the nickname "Mr. October" for the crucial clutch hitting that led his teams to the World Series six times and won him two series MVP awards, and this skill at the plate is perhaps what he is best remembered for. But behind the bat was a man many don't know--a man struggling to find his place in the world, at home, and in the sport that made him a star. Now, in the first biography of Jackson in more than 25 years--and the first to cover his entire career as a player--FOXSports.com columnist Dayn Perry provides an intimate, honest, and never-before-seen glimpse into the life and times of one of baseball's all-time greats.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-464).
Table of contents: title: "Aspirations"; title: "He looks whiter all the time"; title: "Yes, Sir"; title: "I'm not working in one of those Birmingham steel mills"; title: "If I played New York, they'd name a candy bar after me"; title: "Fuck you"; title: "The worst feeling I've ever had ... was the day we won the World Series"; title: "Superstar, my ass"; title: "My objective right now is money"; title: "Isn't my name Reggie Jackson?"; title: I ain't going"; title: "We're going on this venture together"; title: "Reggie challenged him in every way"; title: "I'm the straw that stirs the drink"; title: "I'm a nigger to them, and I just don't know how to be subservient"; title: "Reg-gie!"; title: "But I know the score now"; title: That makes me angry and it hurts"; title: "I don't know if I'm secure enough and mature enough not to be the top banana"; title: "Steinbrenner sucks!"; title: "Number 44, Reggie Jackson. Number 44"; title: "What should I do? Leave? Go away? Come back?."