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Becoming Mr. October by Jackson, Reggie, Baker, Kevin is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Becoming Mr. October about?

A soul-baring, brutally candid, and richly eventful memoir of the two years—1977 and 1978—when Reggie Jackson went from outcast to Yankee legend In the spring of 1977 Reggie Jackson should have been on top of the world. The best player of the Oakland A’s dynasty, which won three straight World Series, he was the first big-money free agent, wooed and flattered by George Steinbrenner into coming to the New York Yankees, which hadn’t won a World Series since 1962. But Reggie was about to learn, as he writes in this vivid and surprising memoir, that until his initial experience on the Yankees “I didn’t know what alone meant.”      His manager, the mercurial, alcoholic, and pugilistic Billy Martin, never wanted him on the team and let Reggie—and the rest of the team—know it. Most of his new teammates, resentful of his contract, were aloof at best and hostile at worst. Brash and outspoken, but unused to the ferocity of New York’s tabloid culture, Reggie hadn’t realized how rumor and offhand remarks can turn into screaming negative headlines—especially for a black athlete with a multimillion-dollar contract. Sickened by Martin’s anti-Semitism, his rages, and his quite public disparagement

Who reads Becoming Mr. October?

Author

Jackson, Reggie, Baker, Kevin

Publisher

Random House Digital

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385533119

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Sports, Anthropology

Rating

3.08 / 5 (128 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14