Reggie Jackson

Mr. October. "His worst year," writes Mike Lupica for New York, "ended with his greatest night. It ended for Reggie Jackson on October 18, 1977, the night when he was as big as New York athlete has ever been, when he was not just Babe Ruth at Yankee Stadium, but Ali, too. All this time later, New York remembers the three swings and the three home runs, and the noise building and crashing and then building again as the Yankees closed the deal with one last majestic shot, against a knuckleball pitcher named Charlie Hough."


 
 
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