Reggie Jackson Known as "Mr. October" for his World Series heroics, he recorded 563 career home runs and was named American League MVP in 1973. He won 5 World Series Championships, taking home World Series MVP honors in 1973 with the Oakland Athletics and in 1977 with the New York Yankees.

He excelled in football, basketball, baseball, and track at Cheltenham High School in Wyncote, Pennsylvania.

He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1993 wearing a Yankees cap, since he was unceremoniously fired from the Oakland Athletics's.

His father Martinez Jackson played baseball in the Negro Leagues. He was married to Jennie Campos from 1968 to 1973. He has a daughter named Kimberly.

His last game for the Yankees was in 1981, a year before another left-handed slugger, Don Mattingly, began his historic career with the Bronx Bombers.

Reginald Martinez Jackson was born on May 18, 1946, in Wyncote, Pennsylvania, to Martinez and Clara Jackson. Jackson was one of six children of African American and Spanish descent. When his parents divorced, young Jackson moved with two of his siblings to live with his father in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania. Although his father always provided food for the family, Jackson recalls that they often "felt poverty." His father, a tailor and a dry cleaner, was once a semi-pro baseball player in the Negro leagues, and he was largely responsible for inspiring and encouraging his talented son to pursue a career in baseball.

Jackson was an all-star athlete in track, on the football team, in basketball, and in baseball by the time he entered his senior year at Cheltenham High School. Reggie accepted a scholarship from Arizona State University. In his sophomore year he was chosen to the All-American first team in baseball. His performance caught the attention of Charles O. Finley, owner of the Kansas City Athletics, who offered Jackson a $95,000 bonus. He left college after his sophomore year and entered the world of professional baseball.

In 1968 Jackson moved with the Athletics to their new home in Oakland, California. In his first full season in the majors he hit 29 home runs and drove in another 74 runs. But he also made a dozen outfield errors and struck out a near record-breaking 171 times.

The following season, in 1969, he again held a record number of strikeouts with 142, but he hit a fantastic 47 home runs and led the American League in scoring with 123 runs.