Reggie on Billy Martin's racism, anti-semitism

[kalinecountry]

http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/7158864/former-new-york-yankees-great-reggie-jackson-says-billy-martin-used-anti-semitic-epithets
Reggie: Billy Martin used racial epithets.
from espn

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AoWsn3GX2xGtIFCWST70A6ERvLYF?slug=ap-reggie-martinsepithets
Reggie: Martin made racial, anti-Semitic remarks.
from yahoosports

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/reggie-jackson-claims-billy-martin-used-racial-anti-semitic-slurs-102811
Reggie Jackson claims Billy Martin used racial and anti-semitic slurs.
from foxsports

couple of other media sites have the story, mostly verbatim of these.
I decided to post this because Martin managed the Tigers and had some problems with several players, notably Willie Horton and Jim Northrup.
I wonder if now that Jackson has brought this out in the open, if any other (Tigers players) or from other teams do as well like Holtzman or Sample the other players mentioned within the links.
Maybe it was, or maybe it wasn't right to bring this up now, and with Martin dead for over 20 years.

 

[Thumb]

His being dead does not excuse what he did.

He did seem to really get behind LaFlore though.

 

[tonyballs]

Shut the fuck up, Reggie.

 

[tycobb420]

Billy Martin: Jim Northrup's favorite manager!!!

Goose Gossage called Martin a sociopath or something along those lines.

 

[turok]

Martin obviously was a drunk and a troublemaker, both of which I experience up-close and personal on a daily basis, but he was a shrewd manager..that is...when he didn't let his pettiness and grudges get the best of him like it did in '72 as the Tigers' manager.

 

[byco42]

Now Reggie comes out with this information?

 

[tycobb420]

Now Reggie comes out with this information?

Good question. Perhaps it never came up in an interview?

 

[uofmpoweri]

Who is Reggie?? Oh that old guy that Pujols bested in the WS. Can we change his nickname to Mr. Irrelevant now?

 

[jdeb]

All these democrats are coming out of the woodwork lately complaining about racism and ant-Semitism. Reggie, Michele, Obama etc. I am sick of the whole thing.

 

[tycobb420]

Who is Reggie?? Oh that old guy that Pujols bested in the WS. Can we change his nickname to Mr. Irrelevant now?

Reggie did it on three swings and homered on four straight ABs in 77. They called what Pujols did..."going Reggie"...and Albert disappeared for the rest of the series.

 

[byco42]

Reggie's '71 ASG HR was and is the 8th natural wonder of the world. What a monumental moment in baseball history. As an eye witness to that AB, I've yet to see another hit ball take a similar path.

 

[uofmpoweri]

Who is Reggie?? Oh that old guy that Pujols bested in the WS. Can we change his nickname to Mr. Irrelevant now?

Reggie did it on three swings and homered on four straight ABs in 77. They called what Pujols did..."going Reggie"...and Albert disappeared for the rest of the series.

Who is "they" Tim McCarver and Joe Buck? I guess that what you are saying is that they weren't afraid to throw strikes to the strike out king. Pujols doesn't see 3 strikes on three pitches very often

 

[uofmpoweri]

Reggie's '71 ASG HR was and is the 8th natural wonder of the world. What a monumental moment in baseball history. As an eye witness to that AB, I've yet to see another hit ball take a similar path.

The record for the longest estimated home run in a major-league game is 634 ft., by Mickey Mantle for the New York Yankees against the Detroit Tigers at Briggs Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, in September 1960.

New research (link) by Bill Jenkinson of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, overturns that estimate and instead gives the mark to a 575 ft blast by Babe Ruth hit on July 18, 1921 in Detroit. According to Guiness Reggie doesn't even have the longest home run in Detroit History. That is far from the 8th wonder.

 

[uofmpoweri]

Reggie did it on three swings and homered on four straight ABs in 77. They called what Pujols did..."going Reggie"...and Albert disappeared for the rest of the series.

Who is "they" Tim McCarver and Joe Buck? I guess that what you are saying is that pitchers weren't afraid to throw strikes to the strike out king. Pujols doesn't see 3 strikes on three pitches very often

 

[tycobb420]

Who is "they" Tim McCarver and Joe Buck? I guess that what you are saying is that pitchers weren't afraid to throw strikes to the strike out king. Pujols doesn't see 3 strikes on three pitches very often

You must not watch ESPN or MLB Network...I heard more than one person on each channel call it "going Reggie." The Dodgers were actually trying to come in on Reggie and jam him inside. He moved off the plate and pounded the ball. Based on your comments, I don't think you saw the Reggie or Pujols at bats.

 

[uofmpoweri]

You must not watch ESPN or MLB Network...I heard more than one person on each channel call it "going Reggie." The Dodgers were actually trying to come in on Reggie and jam him inside. He moved off the plate and pounded the ball. Based on your comments, I don't think you saw the Reggie or Pujols at bats.

When Babe Ruth did it in 1926 and 1928 the pitchers were really trying to get him out. But from your comments I bet that you didn't see any of his at bats in that series. He really dominated those games, let me tell you.

 

[byco42]

Reggie's '71 ASG HR was and is the 8th natural wonder of the world. What a monumental moment in baseball history. As an eye witness to that AB, I've yet to see another hit ball take a similar path.

The record for the longest estimated home run in a major-league game is 634 ft., by Mickey Mantle for the New York Yankees against the Detroit Tigers at Briggs Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, in September 1960.

New research (link) by Bill Jenkinson of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, overturns that estimate and instead gives the mark to a 575 ft blast by Babe Ruth hit on July 18, 1921 in Detroit. According to Guiness Reggie doesn't even have the longest home run in Detroit History. That is far from the 8th wonder.

It's not the distance. It was the velocity, the ball path and the sound of the bat hitting the ball. Never heard that noise before or since. The reason hit might not have gone as far was because it was a monster line drive that happened to hit the light transformer.

 

[batcave76]

I think Martin hated Reggie for reasons that had nothing to do w/race.

 

[byco42]

I think Martin hated Reggie for reasons that had nothing to do w/race.

Reggie was more valuable to the team than Martin and Reggie made certain that Billy knew that.

 

[batcave76]

I think Martin hated Reggie for reasons that had nothing to do w/race.

Reggie was more valuable to the team than Martin and Reggie made certain that Billy knew that.

Not to mention the fact that Reggie was major, major asshole. Major.....Did I mention major?