Reggie was such an exciting player. Glad I got to watch his career.

@veronaraven3099

2 жыл бұрын

I was 10 years old watching this game in Southbury CT that night on a little black and white sony...Channel 8 out of New Haven....I may not be able to tell you what I had for dinner three nights ago...but I'll never forget Reggie's night.

The man did it without steroids. Mr. October!!

I've always loved a confident, almost arrogant player, as long as they back it up. In fact, there is almost nothing cooler than someone who talks the talk and then walks the walk.

@cacornhusker2940

3 жыл бұрын

like "The Greatest", Broadway Joe and Mr. October??

@lawrencebenjamin502

2 ай бұрын

He Delivered !! Nuff Said.

In 77' I was nine years old.For Yankee fans REGGIE JACKSON WAS & STILL IS, & WILL ALWAYS BE MR. OCTOBER 💯💪😃

And I still miss Reggie Jackson. Reggie, Billy, and George the most perfect imperfect marriage! I miss all of them.

Hands Down!Reggie Jackson was won of the Best MLB Ballplayers of all time. Allah Bless Him...

ice cube is perfect to tell mr. october's story.

@nightowl5475

2 жыл бұрын

I like when he said, Reggie, is dah proud black man that demands Respect!

That was great. Thanks for posting it.

1977 Reggie made mark in Yankees history,3 hr's in game 6 of World Series vs LA Dodgers.Won championship for NYC,was series MVP

Reggie was ahead of his time and a total stud

another dangerous thing about Reggie was his arm. I've seen countless times he would throw someone out at 3rd from deep right field; and there was NO rainbow in his throw, it was a laser from his left hand to Nettles. will never be another like him

@deneenjeffries2768

Жыл бұрын

Yes I used to love watching him whiz that ball from right field he had a strong arm and was a pretty good outfielder. But everyone focused on some errors and said he was a bad fielder.

I Was Born In "64, Luved Reggie !!! Same As Very FEW SUPERSTAR"S, Ya Only Had Say His 1st Name !!!! "77 & 78, I Remember As Was Yesterday !!!! UNBELIEVABLE !!!!,"79 With Thurman Was Ruff, What Hurt Reggie & Was Not His Fault, Being Up 2 - 0 In "81 World Series, My Favorite Player Get"s Hurt & We Loose Nettle"s For The Series, Back Then When Only 4 Team"s Went To Playoff"s,...You Had A Machine, Same As Gear"s Meshing Together, NOBODY Could Make Up His Defense, & NO 1 Can Pop Em Over The Fence Or Drive Them In The Alley !!!! Nettle"s Don"t Get Hurt & Early 80s After 81 Till "Tiger"s Dominant In "84,... Yank"s Could Of Got At Least 2 More Counting "81....& If Won In "81,. 3yr Contract Probably What George Would Of Gave Reg !!!.. REGGIE, All Talk & Could Back It Up & R.I.P.. George.....

Straight up, Da Cube done laid down some phat narration up in this piece. Kept it mad real when talkin bout my man Octobah. #AhhhhShit

Reggie you could hit like nobody.I Thank You for making my Childhood great.When Reggie would get ahold of one he knew it was gone.So did everybody else.You watch the old tapes he pounded the Home Runs.Reggie Jackson was a big Guy he was built for hitting home runs.You don't owe anybody an explanation Sir.Im still a Big Fan

R Jackson was such exciting player and time

He didn't just stir the drink that night. He made everybody a Long Island Iced Tea to celebrate!

❤reggie Jackson, .my hero

@papasolo4788

3 жыл бұрын

Reggie Reggie Reggie :

Strawberry shortcake room service. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

I was in 5th grade that night in October. Growing up in North Jersey with a excellent view of Midtown and the Empire State Building from my bedroom window. I sat there watching my TV set and seeing my childhood hero do the unforgettable. I don’t I slept 3 hours that night. However Ms Collins my teacher looked a Ebony Fashion Fair model so I stayed awake in class😉⚾️

@JakeBuckminster

3 жыл бұрын

SImilar. I was 7 years old. I starting playing organized baseball in April 1978 and haven't stopped. He may not have the numbers, but Reggie's that dude in my book!

@Mike-yg8ig

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like Weehawken or North Bergen. Great area man, that's where I'm from too. Jackson wasn't just my favorite baseball player, he was my favorite athlete. No one had the style and flair of Reggie, before or since. I was watching the all star game when he hit that laser beam off Doc Ellis. I was an A's fan. My dad was watching from his recliner. I told him Jackson was goin yard. I knew what kind of pitching he destroyed and what Ellis was throwing was like filet mignon. If it hadn't hit the transformer on the roof of Tiger Stadium it might still be travelling today.

@ccth22

3 жыл бұрын

I hear you, those were great times. Actually it was Summit, were elevated so we could see almost everything in a 30 mile radius.

@Mike-yg8ig

3 жыл бұрын

@@ccth22 Nice. My friends and I in high school used to eat lunch in the parks along the Hudson. We watched the WTC go up floor by floor. Sad to see what this country is becoming.

@lawrencebenjamin502

Жыл бұрын

Reggie hitting bombs and your teacher looking Fine as @#π+?*. Those are some nice memories, my brother.

Great show

I got to hang with him on JANUARY 1st , 2022 🌟 with a mutual friend and Mr.Jackson was very genuine to me as we also share the same birthday on May 18th⚡️ I was actually born on 5/18/63 ,,,( he hit 563 career HR’s ) that was my icebreaker I always loved the man!

Reggie Jackson was the Best! Hands down!

When he was doing the imitation of the car dealer and the cop who stopped him, awesome.

I was 16 years old when my dad took us on a holiday to the US from Europe in 1981. Huge fans that we were of Reggie, we simply had to watch the Yankees play. At the end of the game, we hung around the players' exit of the old Bronx Stadium, aching to catch one more glimpse of Mr. October. We waited for hours. In fact, it was night by the time his Corniche appeared through the gate, Reggie behind the wheel. What a thrill, all the kids went wild! Alas, he didn't wave, nod, honk or in any way acknowledge the mostly teenage boys and girls there. Reggie hit the gas and, poof, he was gone, in literally, a few seconds, lol. Of course there were no more cabs by then,; my dad and I ended up potential robber bait for an hour or so. If it hadn't been for this reporter who managed to snare an errant cab right in front of us, which he then offered to share, we probably would have still been roaming the Bronx now. But there's a sting in this story's tail, because that game was the second of a double-header and we'd also gone to the first game the day before. Except, on that day, New York was so hot that my mum passed out in the stands. She told us later that night, when we were back at our hotel, that whilst regaining consciousness from her fainting spell, the ambulance chaps were wheeling her gurney through the bowels of Yankee Stadium, when suddenly the entire Yankees team filed right passed her! Including Reggie! She said she could have touched them. What are the odds of that happening? But yeah, I guess that was enough awesomeness for our family, hehe. Good times.

@fasteddie9055

Жыл бұрын

Wrong you are !! Yankee Stadium has plenty of NYPD security on game night. Plus the immediate neighborhood is reasonably safe from what you sarcastically termed as ''robber bait''. Moreover, there are about 6 train station entrances in the immediate stadium area. There is also a TA Police District 11 Hq. right there by McDonalds on River Ave. Even if you weren't some foreign tourist with preconceived notions of Bronx criminality, your biased tourist ass was as safe as a baby's crib at the infant's hospital. STOP BASHING NY WHEN YOU HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT REALITY !!!!

I love how Jackson runs right over two guys at 18;20.

Great special on the great Reggie Jackson, BUT I couldn't disagree more with the narrator suggesting that Billy Martin was "sticking it again to Reggie" by benching him for Game 5 of the 1977 ALCS. Reggie was only 1-14 up to that game, then got big RBI Single late in Game 5.

@pudder68

3 жыл бұрын

nah bro its a slap in the face .. he's the highest payed player and most explosive bat on the team .. and you sit him? clearly it only takes one at bat to change the slump mentality .. it worked out obviously but Martin would of gotten murdered if they lost and Reggie never saw a pitch ..

@TheBatugan77

8 ай бұрын

​@@pudder68 Martin made the right call. Cut the crap.

23:17 Read the book, The Best Team Money Could Buy. Its a day by day type diary on the 1977 Yankees. Great read n riveting! Biggest mistake Steinbrenner did was let Reggie go.

I wish they would bring back the REGGIE bar!

Excellent documentary! Unfortunately, as a Met fan we were on different sides of the field...BTW we should have won in 73 but for the Ump's bad call at home plate.

@TheBatugan77

8 ай бұрын

Mets passed up on Reggie in the draft. 😃👍

Clearly there will only be 1 Mr October and that's Reggie Jackson that name that title is his alone

@11:25 Keith Jackson said when ABC did not want him to retire. The ABC folks kept asking him to keep working by offering more money. Mr. Jackson said, the USC and Texas CFB Championship game would be his last, he said he did not wanna die in a parking lot.

@bradlott9876

2 жыл бұрын

Vince Young on 4th and 5…..”He’s going for the corner…..He’s got it”

Who is that voice at 24:36? I know that voice but I can't remember who it is. Driving me crazy.

@danielhood4062

3 жыл бұрын

Frank Messer. It was Rizzuto, White, and Messer for WPIX Yankee broadcasts

@dirtylemon3379

3 жыл бұрын

@@danielhood4062 Thanks.

@southamcaballero

2 ай бұрын

I actually watched that game live on Tuesday night baseball on channel 6 WCIX in South Florida, where they would show the Yankee games each Tuesday. It was a great moment.

That's two speeding tickets that he should have received and had I been the cops he would have.

EXCELLENT !!!!

Saw Reggie play numerous times n saw his 400th HR n went to his induction.

@dannymiguel112

3 жыл бұрын

Damn u old

@mikedunham8481

3 жыл бұрын

@@dannymiguel112 Everything in life is a numbers game.

@johnlee5197

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. They played against the White Sox. After he hit that home run off Brit Burns he went to the stands and hugged his dad.

@mikedunham8481

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnlee5197 Dont remember that but I do remember he hit it to right field n was like a line drive. My late father n I were sitting in the first row of the the upper deck behind home plate.

@johnlee5197

3 жыл бұрын

​@@mikedunham8481 Yes it was one of his line drive home runs. I remember it lol. I'm a huge Reggie fan coming from Brooklyn.

When Reggie came back to Yankee Stadium as an Angel, Guidry gave him that ball straight down the middle because Guidry and the Yankee team couldn't stand Steinbrenner and actually wanted Reggie to thumb his nose at George for not resigning him back to the 1982 Yankees. George didn't want to sign Reggie for another 5 year contract. Reggie actually only had 1 decent year left after he left the Yankees. 82 was Jackson's last best year. It showed too, that his numbers just weren't there and the game just passed him by. I would of gone 2 more years if I were Steinbrenner and offered him a resign for only 2 more years. Reggie wouldn't sign for 2 years as a Yankee. I can understand how he felt as a player, to try to get a 5 year million dollar contract. If I was Reggie, I would of signed with the Angels too. I don't wanna sound inconsistent but I would do 2 different things depending on whether I was a player or owner to one of the teams. I love Reggie, but business is business and no hard feelings.

@davidsamuels9557

6 ай бұрын

You're in fantasy land. Guidry is a competitor. He was trying to get Reggie out. Reggie took him deep.

@nightowl5475

6 ай бұрын

​@@davidsamuels9557Gator and Reggie were best buddies when they both played for the Yanks and they both shared one thing as do many Yankee players, they both got screwed by Steinbrenner. Reggie wanted to stay in New York and get a 5 year contract as a free agent with the Yanks, but Steinbrenner had himself a new slugger, Dave Winfield, which he later screwed him over a few years after that. Guidry got screwed over by Steinbrenner because Guidry wanted to end his career with the Yankees and didn't want to play for another team. Steinbrenner refused to pick up Gator's contract after it expired. Guidry was crushed by that. He just retired from the game. He could of gotten a few more years in the majors playing with another team but Guidry was a die-heart Yankee true and true. Both men were competitors, true. But both wanted to stick it in Steinbrenner's ass! Gator threw that pitch right down broadway and Reggie gave it a ride all the way into the bleachers. And you know what, Guidry stood there and cheered Reggie on. The crowd at Yankee Stadium cheered for Reggie too. They didn't want Reggie to go. Gator had class and he threw his special fuck you George pitch right where Reggie could extend those arms and send George a message! There were people chanting Fuck Steinbrenner! Gator didn't want to strike out Reggie. He had class and let Reggie have it. The thing about it was, Reggie knew Gator let him crush it. They were teammates and best of friends. The Yankees weren't going anywhere that year. If it was a playoff game that meant something, Ronnie wouldn't of thrown that pitch. Look at the video again. Both of them knew what that meant. They were sending Big George a message!

20:50 - "I must kill the Queen."

Reggie Jerkson

Is that Ice Cube narrating? Wtf

@marcusjohnson7772

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@southamcaballero

2 ай бұрын

Oh sh**! I thought you were joking!

Martin didn't like Jackson before he came to the Yankees. Jackson would have had a even better season if Martin wasn't acting like a villain toward him.

Reggie bar

who was the only player who died sliding into home?........................Billy Martin..... look it up!

@michaelf6625

3 жыл бұрын

Not funny.

@bradlott9876

2 жыл бұрын

Damn that’s cold blooded

Yankees weren't going to win in 1982. Reggie might have made a different in 1983. 1984 wasn't an issue because Detroit started like 34-4. In 1985 and 1986 the Yankees were one starting pitcher short. By 1987 he was at the end of his career. So if he had resigned for five more years the Yankees might have made the post-season once.

am i the only one without a foundation?.....

Jaws qiuony

Too bad it took him so long...

Reggie Jackson really showed us why he was “Mr. October” the way he cheated in 1978!

@kingcassius2586

2 жыл бұрын

Yes.. let's single out that one play(which countered Bill Russell cheating on that play) as his October legacy.

@Jiltedin2007

2 жыл бұрын

@@kingcassius2586 Like the one person said who responded to my comments on Jackson’s cheating, “They don’t call him Mr. October for nothing”.

@kingcassius2586

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jiltedin2007 that makes about as much sense as your original comment.

@Jiltedin2007

2 жыл бұрын

@@kingcassius2586 It was meant as a joke.

@kingcassius2586

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jiltedin2007 Without any indication of a joke.. how would one know you're not just making some crazy, baseless statement that frequents every comment section on the net?