1970 6 Grant Jackson
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| Grant Jackson |
I do not know why the PCL had two different teams affiliated with the Phillies. Did the Phillies have two AAA teams? Did they have one team that moved from Arkansas to San Diego between 1965 and 1966? If not, did Arkansas play against San Diego? Was the PCL more than just a AAA league? If I knew all of these answers (and more), baseball would be less interesting to me.
Jackson would be a hero on the 1979 Pirates team that won the World Series. In fact, he is the last Pirate pitcher ever to win a World Series game. He may never lose that distinction.
As the winning pitcher from game 7 of the 1979 Series, he won the last MLB game ever played in the 1970s.
I did not know who he was in the early 1970s. As he became well known in Pittsburgh in the late 1970s, I rediscovered him in my old collection from the early 1970s. For Jackson and other newly acquired Pirates, it was eye opening to learn that they had a history and had not simply dropped out of the sky when their Pirate careers began.
Jackson passed away on February 2, 2021.
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