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Baseball legend Reggie Jackson delivered a painful and emotional recount of what it was like playing in the South in the waning years of Jim Crow during commentary on Fox Sports. Jackson, a Hall of Famer who played for the Athletics, Orioles, Yankees, and Angels in a career spanning from 1967-1987, was commentating for a game at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama. He explained what he was subject to the last time he was at that stadium, just a few years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law. He had just been asked what it was like to be back on the field, in the context of …

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