Reggie Jackson signs baseball to Yankees fan hit by bat (Video)
New York Yankees legend Reggie Jackson signed and delivered a baseball to a fan who was hit by a flying baseball bat during the Yankees-Nationals spring training game Sunday.
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During a spring training game between the Washington Nationals and New York Yankees on Sunday, Nationals catcher Jose Lobaton accidentally let go of his bat and it went flying into the crowd of Yankees fans and hit a woman behind the Yankees dugout.
After the bat hit the woman, New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi told security to let the woman keep the bat (even though it was Lobaton’s, not the Yankees’) and after the inning was over, New York Yankees legend Reggie Jackson signed a baseball and then hand delivered the ball to the woman who was hit.
That ball is worth a lot to any baseball fan especially a Yankees fan. Reggie Jackson, known as “Mr. October” played 21 years in the MLB and played from 1977-1981 with the Yankees where he batted .281 over the five season, with 144 home runs, a .526 slugging percentage and helped New York win two World Series championships. For his career, Jackson hit 563 home runs. He was an All-Star 14 times and all five years he was in a Yankees uniform and he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1993.
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