Reggie Jackson built a Hall of Fame baseball career on hitting clutch home runs and speaking his mind. He’s now 73 years old, and nothing has changed.
That much was clear early in a 20-minute phone conversation the other night. After some small talk about his admiration for Herm Edwards, the football coach at Arizona State -- where Jackson accepted a football scholarship but became a baseball All-American -- Reggie spun into a monologue with such conviction it might surprise a few people.
The New York Yankees, with whom he won two World Series championships and earned the nickname “Mr.