1970 Topps Booklets: The Reggie Jackson Story

The biggest young star in the game, at the time.

Jackson not only injured his knees playing football, he also broke five vertabrae and was told at the time he might not walk again.

Pretty good resemblance of Reggie in that first panel.

Odd that his uniform has "O" instead of "A's". Good reminder that the A's used to play in Oakland. The bit about breaking the HR record some day is interesting. He seemed like a real threat to Maris's record (still pretty new at the time) but he never came close again, with only one more 40+ season (41 in 1980). He actually dipped all the way to 23 in 1970, but then rattled off ten straight 25+ HR seasons before the 1981 strike.