REGGIE JACKSON: Reginald Martinez "Reggie" Jackson was born on May 18, 1946 in Wyncote, Pennsylvania. His father Reginald Martinez was a Puerto Rican by origin who played enthusiastically for the Negro Leagues. Due to his overall performance he earned the moniker "Mr. October." The candy-bar “Reggie Bar” was named after him. Jackson played with the Kansas City and Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, and, and the California Angels. The summit of his career was when he played in the Yankees uniform. He started his Yankees career after claiming that he was "the straw that stirred the drink." His statement infuriated the manager Billy Martin and teammate Thurman Munson. But Jackson proved to be a man of his words and was victorious wherever he went. Jackson played on 11 divisional winners, six flag winners, and five Fall Classic Champions. He has a .357 lifetime World Series average, and the best career World Series slugging average at .755. When he retired his total of 563 HR was sixth all-time. His 2,597 strikeouts are first all-time. From 1967 to 1987, he played a pro American baseball player. In 27 Fall Classic games, he accumulated 10 home runs, 24 RBI and a .357 batting average. As one of the game's leading hitters, he exploded 563 career home-runs, which ranks sixth on the all-time list. An excellent player in the clutch and an unapproachable clean-up hitter, Jackson amassed a lifetime slugging percentage of .490 and earned American League MVP honors in 1973. He appeared in the five World Series and was amazingly good. His talents got recognition when he became the US Baseball Hall of Fame inductee in 1993. Jackson would have started his career with New York Mets but they chose catcher Steve Chilcott. Jackson was acquired by Athletics. At that time A’s were managed by Joe DiMaggio. He tried his best to get the player cut down his swinging skills to reduce strikeouts but his efforts went in vain. In 1969, he set career high 47 home run RBI with 118, slugging average at .608, 142 strikeouts, runs with 123, and walks with 114, leading the league in the last two categories. His success in 1969 was distressed by what could have been. Consequentially, he stopped hitting. The droop in his career lasted throughout the 1970 season. In 1971, due to an injury caused to Tony Oliva he made it to the All-Star line-up. He performed aggressively on the bases and at the plate. In 1973, he won the LCS MVP award. In the World Series against the Mets he was named the Series MVP. He hit his first Series homer in the third inning of the seventh game. He led the A's to their third straight world title in 1974. But due to his regular feud with owner Charlie Finley in 1975, he was forced to abandon the team. In 1976 he became Baltimore Orioles acquisition where he led the league in slugging for the third time. In 1977 he joined the Yankees. In the 977 World Series, he was exceptionally good. In the fourth inning, he hit a two-run shot into the right-field seats on Burt Hooton's first pitch to him to give the Yankees a 4-3 lead. In following inning he hit Elias Sosa and marked a 7-3 lead. He became the first player ever to hit five home runs in one Series. In 1982, he left the team to join California Angels due to his ego clash with Martin and owner George Steinbrenner. He led the Angels to a division title after compiling 39 home runs and 156 strikeouts. He surpassed Mickey Mantle’s home run total of 536 in 1986. He culminated his career back in Oakland in 1987. Yankees retired his jersey #44 in 1993 and A’s retired his jersey #9 in 2004. He holds the distinction of being the only non-pitcher to win World Series most valuable player honors twice. BABE RUTH: Born on February 6, 1895, George Herman Ruth was better known as Babe Ruth and also commonly known by the nickname The Sultan of Swat. On April 22, 1914 "The Babe" pitched his first professional game, a six-hit, 6-0 victory over the Buffalo Bisons, also of the International League. Later, Dunn sold Ruth's contract, with two other players to Joseph Lannin, owner of the Boston Red Sox, for a sum rumored to be between $20,000 and $35,000. Though Ruth was a good pitcher, the Red Sox's starting lineup was already stacked with lefties, so they initially made little use of him. With a 1-1 record, he sat on the bench for several weeks before being sent to the International League with the Providence Grays of Providence, Rhode Island. Pitching in combination with the young Carl Mays, Ruth helped the Grays win the pennant. At the end of the season the Red Sox recalled him, and from then on, he was in the majors permanently. Ruth won 18 games and lost 8 and helped himself with the bat, hitting .315 and slugging his first four major league home runs. The Red Sox won the World Series by 4 games to 1. After a slightly shaky spring, he made a case as the best pitcher in the American League. Ruth's 1.75 ERA was best in the American League, and was a run below the league average. He won 23 games, lost 12 and threw nine shutouts, still the best mark for a left hander as well as a Red Sox record. The Sox reached the World Series thanks again to their pitching, in which Ruth pitched a 14-inning complete game to beat the Brooklyn Robins as Boston again won by 4 games to 1. He repeated his strong performance in 1917, going 24-13, but the Red Sox, who could not keep pace with the Chicago White Sox and their 100 wins, missed out on a third straight postseason appearance. It was during this time that Ruth began displaying his true skills as a hitter, compiling a .325 batting average and sending 11 of his 40 hits for extra bases. By 1919, Ruth was basically a fulltime outfielder, pitching in only 17 of the 130 games in which he appeared. He set his first single-season home run record that year, hitting 29 with the Red Sox, breaking the previous record, while hitting .322 and driving in 114 runs. Despite the public appeal of Ruth, the Red Sox were in a perilious financial position. To attract the best players, owner Harry Frazee had paid relatively large salaries over the years. However, the team's failure to make the 1919 World Series and Frazee's own failings as a theater promoter meant that by the end of the year, he desperately needed an influx of cash to stay afloat. His only available source of money was his players, and so he offered the best of them to the New York Yankees, until then a perennial second division team. For a sum of $125,000 and a loan of more than $300,000, Ruth was sold to the Yankees on January 3. With the New York Yankees, in addition to hitting 54 home runs, smashing his year-old record, he hit .376 (4th in the league), drove in 137 runs and scored 150 (both best in the league) and his 150 walks contributed to him getting on base in more than half his plate appearances. He stole 14 bases and his slugging percentage (.847) set a record that would not be beaten for over 80 years (Barry Bonds eclipsed it in 2001).