'I walked into restaurants and they would point at me and they’d say, ‘n-----, can’t eat here,'' said Jackson, who played for the Birmingham A's in 1967.
Birmingham A's player Reggie Jackson signing an autograph for a boy in the stands at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama. Alabama Media GroupThe iconic A’s and Yankees slugger played at Rickwood Field in 1967 as member of the Birmingham A’s, then the Double-A affiliate of the then-Kansas City A’s.
“Coming back here is not easy,” he said during Fox’s pregame show for “MLB at Rickwood Field: A Tribute to the Negro Leagues” between the San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals.
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