Reggie Jackson recalls an unsettling memory of ex-Alabama football coach Bear Bryant years ago.
Reggie Jackson stunned listeners this week recalling his experiences as a black baseball player in the South during the 1960s, and now Mr. October has come forward with an unsettling memory of an encounter with then-Alabama football coach Bear Bryant, a man Jackson calls his friend.
"I was getting changed, finishing a shower, and putting my shirt on, and Bear Bryant walked up to me and paid me a compliment. 1967." Jackson said, via AL.com. Those names referred to the then-head coaches of Michigan, Ohio State, Notre Dame, and USC, respectively, all racially integrated teams at a time when major Southern schools still weren't fielding Black players.
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