Reggie

New York: Villard Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 1984. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Repaired; Front, Rear Fixed Endpapers Pulled From Removal of Jacket Cover; Front Free Endpaper Pulled From Removal of Pocket and Sticker; Corners, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Heavily Cocked; Moderately Soiled, Including Edges. DUST JACKET: Light Sticker Residue to Spine Portion From Removal of Sticker; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: The Autobiography. DESIGNED BY: Beth Tondreau. JACKET PHOTO BY: Bert Stern. JACKET DESIGN BY: Wendy Bass. CONTENTS: Prologue 1. Wyncote: Martinez's Son 2. Bull in the Ring 3. Birmingham: Just the Kind of Nigger Boy They Needed 4. Mr. Charles O. Finley 5. But Howe We Played the Game... 6. Jennie Campos...Jackson 7. Proceed Directly to the Earl of Baltimore. Pass Go. Collect $200,000. 8. Just Business 9. New York, New York 10. "The Straw That Stirs the Drink..." 11. The Dugout at Fenway: Not a Boston Tea Party 12. How I Helped Billy Keep His Job and Other Interesting Tales 13. On Stayin' Alive in the Clubhouse, Batting Cleanup, and Winning the Division: Not Altogether Unrelated Events 14. How to Go from Mr. Pinchhitter to Mr. October 15. Who Was It Who Said the More Things Change the More They Stay the Same? 16. Billy Says, "One Is a Born Liar, and the Other One Is Convicted." Billy Gets Fired. Billy Gets Rehired. 17. Oh, Yeah, About the Miracle... 18. The Real World 19. Thurman 20. They Said It Couldn't Be Done. And It Couldn't. 21. 1980: Stickups, Shootouts, Dingers Galore, Tantrums from George and a Kansas City Sweep... 22. I Was Just Leaving... 23. An Angel with a Dirty Batting Average... SYNOPSIS: There are few athletes--there are few people--who have had as much written, reported or rumored about them as Reggie Jackson. He has been depicted in the media as a hero, a villain, an intellectual, a fake, the greatest clutch baseball player of his generation, an egomaniac. He has been loved by the fans and hated by the fans. He has battled and lost, he has battled and triumphed. The only constant--aside from his incredible ability to win wherever he goes--has been the bewildering web of contradictions surrounding him. At long last, that web has been unraveled. The contradictions have been set straight. The truths have been revealed by the only man who could, once and for all, reveal them: Reginald Martinez Jackson. This is his story. Reggie's background is as surprising and complex and dramatic as his ascension to superstardom. The product of a broken home, he grew up in a white suburb of Philadelphia. He played football for Frank Kush at Arizona State University before emerging as a star baseball player during his sophomore year at college. The Mets didn't choose him with their number one draft pick because he had a white girlfriend, so he wound up with the Oakland A's--forming the nucleus of one of the greatest teams in baseball history. In the minor leagues he spent a year in the Deep South, encountering tremendous racism, meeting Bear Bryant, becoming the Minor League Player of the Year. Making it to the major leagues, he began his legendary career--and his equally legendary battles with Charles O. Finley. Then came a year with the Orioles and Earl Weaver. And then came the Yankee years, five of the most exciting and tumultuous years in sports history. George Steinbrenner, Billy Martin, Graig Nettles, Thurman Munson, Catfish Hunter--Reggie discusses them all in great depth, speaking from the heart. He reveals the private agony of the championship 1977 and '78 seasons, the joy of hitting three home runs in one World Series game, the jealousies in the clubhouse, the distortions in the media, the controversial behavior of management. This is Reggie Jackson in all his glory and all his pain, from childhood through today. It is Reggie Jackson: hick from Wyncote, Pennsylvania; scared youngster in the South; Oakland "superduperstar," as Sports Illustrated called him; Yankee and Angel; top television commentator; successful and important businessman; husband and lover; car collector--a complex man who has at last come to grips with exactly who he is. Reggie is the story of a baseball career that will be remembered forever, but it is also the story of a man who deserves to be remembered. Reginald Martinez Jackson has houses in Oakland, Newport Beach and New York City. Between the months of April and October he can be found traveling around the country with the number 44 on his back. He has hit more home runs than any active player. In his fifteen-year career, he has been on three division winners, five world championship teams and one pennant winner. In addition to his baseball career, Reggie Jackson is the automotive editor for Penthouse, an announcer for ABC-TV, and spokesperson for Standard Brands and Panavision among many other companies. Mike Lupica is the youngest writer ever to have his own column in a New York newspaper. His column now runs in the New York Daily News four times a week and on Sunday. Mr. Lupica is also writing a mystery novel for Villard--the first of a projected series.. First Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.