He is friendly with Astros owner Jim Crane, who owns a home in Southern California. But it’s just time to move on.” Jackson mentioned the possibility of working for another major league team closer to the Golden State. I want to be around the game, and I want to contribute. “I’ll never have anything bad to say about George,” Jackson said. In recent years, before the pandemic limited access, Jackson typically spent time with the Yankees in spring training, met up with them during their visits to California (where he lives), stopped in for a homestand or two and was around for the team’s playoff run. Jackson, who also helped the Yankees win a championship in 1978 and spent a total of five seasons playing (1977-81) in the pinstripes, said his decision - which he reached in November, notifying the team then - didn’t result from any feud or bad blood with the Yankees: “There’s nothing that I wouldn’t do for the Steinbrenners.” He added that he would like to attend the club’s Old-Timers’ Day this season if the pandemic conditions allow that to occur. October,” Jackson, 74, has worked in an advisory role for the Yankees since George Steinbrenner hired him in 1993 - although, typical of the late Boss and his fiery slugger, there was at least one “break” along the way, in the late-1990s, and another instance, in 2012, in which the Yankees ordered Jackson to stay away from the team for a while after he publicly criticizing the team’s third baseman, Alex Rodriguez. The Most Valuable Player of the 1977 World Series, during which he hit three home runs in the clinching game to draw the moniker “Mr.
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