Mr. October Traded His Pinstripes for an Astros Cap
The New York Times
Reggie Jackson, the Hall of Fame slugger and longtime Yankees adviser, has a new role with the Astros, helping reassure the team as postseason pressure mounts.
BOSTON — It was brisk and windy during batting practice Monday, and the skies were black over old Fenway Park. Reggie Jackson smiled. “October weather,” he said, as nobody else on the planet quite could.
It was 44 years to the night since No. 44’s masterpiece: A three-homer outing for the Yankees in the clinching game of the 1977 World Series. That was when Jackson became Mr. October, the nickname stitched in orange on the side of the navy cap he wore before Game 3 of the American League Championship Series.
The navy color fits, but the orange is new. Jackson, 75, joined the Houston Astros in May as a special adviser to the team’s owner, Jim Crane, whose Astros trailed the Boston Red Sox in the series, two games to one, ahead of Tuesday night’s Game 4 at Fenway.
