Thank God for people like Fingers. All these things that happened to Jackson is not ancient history. These players are still alive to tell the stories. Let's hope some younger baseball game are listening
Like all of us you keep it inside. This Reggie remembering a tragic experience. Most didn't say anything stuffed it inside. I could hear the pain in his voice after all those years.
Good to hear about good people in the world. Wonderful to hear. That was some team of homegrown talent: Catfish, Vida Blue, Rollie Fingers, Reggie, Joe Rudi, Campy, Joe Bando.......
I grew up in the that Oakland dynasties- Da Raiders and the A's (70's). To this day I can still name quite a few of the players on each team. From the A's to Yankee's Reggie was the man. No one has come close to what this guy has accomplished especially during the play offs and WS.
That powerful story of Reggie’s shows that this kind of racism isn’t ancient history or anything. Plenty of living people were the victims and perpetrators.
My first baseball card was Rollie Fingers. So happy this guy I idolized my whole life is such a solid guy. And that he doesnt see anything special in what he did says a lot about him.
It takes individuals such as the teammates of the black players to be candid about what when it on to their teammates and how it affected them to really bring it all into the open. I’m sure they didn’t take to well to being threatened to having their apt burned down because a teammate of theirs slept on the couch. One must remember that all of those words were backed up with the actual threat of violence.
Having events at Rickwood is the right thing to do if only to bring out stories like Reggie Jackson’s. It also helps promote baseball or sports at times as an element of the solution . The spotlight on good shines brighter where there is/ was the most evil. It also highlights the need to educate todays generation and call out those who attempt or prevent discussion of racism or ban books about it. (Call out the phony DeSantis from Florida and other Republicans for that.)
With all the crap that Birmingham, Alabama is all about (recently, the boat dock rumble of 2023), why in the Hell is MLB still having major games at Rickwood Field.
Fingers knows more details of the racism in Birmingham in 1967 but he doesn't want to say what he saw and heard directly from the southern racists...certainly those people let him know directly they didn't want Reggie staying in the apartment with Rudi and Fingers....there had to be threats of violence or retaliation, otherwise Jackson would not have left after one month.
Fingers did not pay attention or was apathetic when his direct friend wasn't involved because the same racist behavior was happening in California; as a matter of fact, Willie Mays took his housing discrimination issues in San Francisco to court. Look it up. This happened/happens throughout the US -- north, south, east and west.
The Deep South was always way worse than other parts of the country. Reggie has gone on record to say in his books that he never experienced that kind of racism anywhere else in the country before or since.
I swear it's the heat that makes the Southerners so lazy and nasty. Too lazy to do the hot weather work and so nasty they would force someone else to do their work.
Thank God for people like Fingers. All these things that happened to Jackson is not ancient history. These players are still alive to tell the stories. Let's hope some younger baseball game are listening
Rollie said it all "Just being a friend" .
Remember being a friend can get you killed back then
Thanks Rollie The OGs Of The Swingin A's 🟡🟢🟡🟢⚾🐐
Like all of us you keep it inside. This Reggie remembering a tragic experience. Most didn't say anything stuffed it inside. I could hear the pain in his voice after all those years.
those are some powerful words from Reggie
Good to hear about good people in the world. Wonderful to hear. That was some team of homegrown talent: Catfish, Vida Blue, Rollie Fingers, Reggie, Joe Rudi, Campy, Joe Bando.......
I grew up in the that Oakland dynasties- Da Raiders and the A's (70's). To this day I can still name quite a few of the players on each team. From the A's to Yankee's Reggie was the man. No one has come close to what this guy has accomplished especially during the play offs and WS.
This is the history that we are not supposed to teach because it makes some people uncomfortable. In reality, it's to mask and hide their behavior.
That's why It NEEDS TO BE in classrooms across this country
This podcast as well as others who broadcast this. Should show this to stundents.
That powerful story of Reggie’s shows that this kind of racism isn’t ancient history or anything. Plenty of living people were the victims and perpetrators.
And still are!
Rollie is big time. He's well known as one of the best relievers ever. 3-)
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Rollie fingers was a great baseball player for the Milwaukee Brewers also a great person
My first baseball card was Rollie Fingers. So happy this guy I idolized my whole life is such a solid guy. And that he doesnt see anything special in what he did says a lot about him.
There were SEC football teams that didn’t have black players until 1972.
It takes individuals such as the teammates of the black players to be candid about what when it on to their teammates and how it affected them to really bring it all into the open. I’m sure they didn’t take to well to being threatened to having their apt burned down because a teammate of theirs slept on the couch.
One must remember that all of those words were backed up with the actual threat of violence.
Having events at Rickwood is the right thing to do if only to bring out stories like Reggie Jackson’s.
It also helps promote baseball or sports at times as an element of the solution .
The spotlight on good shines brighter where there is/ was the most evil.
It also highlights the need to educate todays generation and call out those who attempt or prevent discussion of racism or ban books about it.
(Call out the phony DeSantis from Florida and other Republicans for that.)
With all the crap that Birmingham, Alabama is all about (recently, the boat dock rumble of 2023), why in the Hell is MLB still having major games at Rickwood Field.
Oh hats off to Rollie, Rudi's,
Fingers knows more details of the racism in Birmingham in 1967 but he doesn't want to say what he saw and heard directly from the southern racists...certainly those people let him know directly they didn't want Reggie staying in the apartment with Rudi and Fingers....there had to be threats of violence or retaliation, otherwise Jackson would not have left after one month.
Too much history in the Bay... Too bad for the A's
Fingers did not pay attention or was apathetic when his direct friend wasn't involved because the same racist behavior was happening in California; as a matter of fact, Willie Mays took his housing discrimination issues in San Francisco to court. Look it up. This happened/happens throughout the US -- north, south, east and west.
The Deep South was always way worse than other parts of the country. Reggie has gone on record to say in his books that he never experienced that kind of racism anywhere else in the country before or since.
Thank you! Its everywhere, they either can't or won't see it.
I swear it's the heat that makes the Southerners so lazy and nasty. Too lazy to do the hot weather work and so nasty they would force someone else to do their work.
is this news to some people? I guess so. this is why these things can’t be swept under the rug and need to be taught.