Reggie Jackson heard Billy Martin use racial and anti-Semitic remarks then, and felt it was time to talk about them now.
“You need to set the record straight,” the Hall of Fame slugger told The Associated Press on Friday. “They’re the truth.”
The late Martin managed the New York Yankees in the late 1970s, a fiery time that included a pair of World Series championships. Jackson spoke about Martin in an interview with the MLB Network that will be shown Monday night.
“I did not accept the way he managed me. I did not accept the way he managed Ken Holtzman. I thought there was anti-Semitism there,” Jackson said in the MLB Network interview.
“I couldn’t accept the racial epithets in reference to players like Elliott Maddox or Billy Sample,” he said. “There are players that played for him that would tell you that.”
Jackson told the AP that “sometimes it’s uncomfortable, but it’s real
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