Reggie Jackson Interview from Rickwood Field

[crash_davis 23040]

Good interview with Reggie about Willie Mays, his experience (racism) playing in Birmingham, AL, and the people who helped him through it.

Fuck you if you think this belongs in CR or that it's political. It's only political if you are a racist piece of shit.

 

[Pam Cummings 9416]

I'm glad he said what he said. Not wanting to hear this from a guy who was on the ground and experienced it would be whitewashing.

[YGIFS 19445]

Reggie Jackson's firsthand account of modern racism in America is making white children feel bad about themselves for no reason!  

That's awesome that John McNamara and Rollie Fingers basically told any place that wouldn't have Reggie Jackson inside to get fucked.  Where are Fingers and Jackson now?  Cooperstown?  Where are the Southern Gentleman of Heritage now?  Bitching about library books.  I love this game for so many reasons, one of them being it has been an equalizer for race and nationality.  The game is cruel, but if you respect it and you can play it---it doesn't give fuck one where you came from or what color your skin is.  

Saddening to lose Willie Mays this week, but so cool that this Negro League tribute game happens and so many great all-timers gathered around it to celebrate and teach us the history of the game, good or bad.  

[Beau Vine 53653]

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At the luncheon held Thursday morning to honor the families of former Negro Leagues players, he let it out. A question was asked about one of his best memories from Alabama, and he told a story about the legendary Alabama football coach Bear Bryant, who told him in an apparent moment of congeniality, that the Crimson Tide needed more N-words like him at running back to compete with the best. Think about that. That was a good memory, apparently.

https://andscape.com/features/reggie-jackson-reminds-us-that-mlbs-rickwood-field-game-isnt-a-kumbaya-moment/