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Major League Baseball legend and National Baseball Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson candidly recalled the racism he faced while playing in Alabama, saying, 'I wouldn't wish it on anyone.' The 78-year-old was among several Black baseball stars at Rickwood Field in Birmingham on Thursday for a Negro League tribute game between the San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals.
' Jackson started out his career playing for the Birmingham A’s in the minor leagues with home games at Rickwood Field in 1967. He went on to have a 21-season MLB career with the Kansas City A's — which later moved to become the Oakland A’s — and also played with the Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees and Los Angeles Angels. But his time in Birmingham was a stark one roiled with racism and the terror of the Ku Klux Klan.
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