"Mr October" Reggie Jackson Hand Signed 1993 HOF 15X12 LeRoy Neiman Poster

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"Mr October" Reggie Jackson Hand Signed 1993 HOF 15X12 LeRoy Neiman Poster "Super Agent" Mead Chadsky Hologram Affixed. Slight staining at the right bottom of the poster.
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Reginald Martinez Jackson
(born May 18, 1946) is an American former professional
baseball
right fielder
who played 21 seasons in
Major League Baseball
(MLB) for the
Kansas City / Oakland Athletics
,
Baltimore Orioles
,
New York Yankees
, and
California Angels
. Jackson was inducted into the
National Baseball Hall of Fame
in 1993. Jackson was nicknamed "
Mr. October
" for his
clutch hitting
in the postseason with the Athletics and the Yankees. He helped Oakland win five consecutive
American League West
divisional pennants, three consecutive
American League pennants
and three consecutive
World Series
titles, from
1972
to
1974.
Jackson helped New York win four
American League East
divisional pennants, three American League pennants and two consecutive World Series titles, from
1977
to
1978
. He also helped the
California Angels
win two AL West divisional pennants in
1982
and
1986
. Jackson hit three consecutive home runs at
Yankee Stadium
in the clinching game six of the
1977 World Series
.
Jackson hit 563 career
home runs
and was an
American League
(AL)
All-Star
for 14 seasons. He won two
Silver Slugger Awards
, the AL
Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award
in 1973, two
World Series MVP Awards
, and the
Babe Ruth Award
in 1977. The Yankees and Athletics retired his team uniform number in 1993 and 2004. Jackson currently serves as a special advisor to the
Houston Astros
.
Jackson led his teams to first place ten times over his 21-year career. Jackson was born in the
Wyncote
neighborhood of
Cheltenham Township
, just north of
Philadelphia
,
Pennsylvania
. His father, Martinez Jackson, who was half
Puerto Rican
, worked as a tailor and was a former
second baseman
with the
Newark Eagles
of
Negro league baseball
. He was the youngest of four children from his mother, Clara. He also had two half-siblings from his father's first marriage. His parents divorced when he was four; his mother took four of his siblings with her, while his father took Reggie and one of the siblings from his first marriage, though one sibling later returned to Wyncote. Martinez Jackson was a single father, and theirs was one of the few black families in Wyncote. Jackson graduated from
Cheltenham High School
in 1964, where he excelled in
football
,
basketball
, baseball, and track and field.
A
tailback
in football, he injured his knee in an early season game in his junior year in the fall of 1962. He was told by the doctors he was never to play football again, but Jackson returned for the final game of the season. In that game, Jackson fractured five
cervical vertebrae
, which caused him to spend six weeks in the hospital and another month in a neck cast. Doctors told Jackson that he might never walk again, let alone play football, but Jackson defied the odds again. On the baseball team, he
batted
.550 and threw several
no-hitters
. In the middle of his senior year, Jackson's father was arrested for
bootlegging
and was sentenced to six months in jail.