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When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.

Reggie Jackson

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Reggie Jackson
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: May 18
Baseball Player
Reginald Martinez Jackson
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