Reggie Jackson

NEW YORK – September 30, 2009 – SIRIUS XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) appear today that Mr. October, Hall of Fame slugger Reggie Jackson, will host a new account alternation alone on SIRIUS XM Radio.

Starting Tuesday, October 6, Jackson and co-host Bill Pidto will host October Nights, a six anniversary alternation of allocution shows active through the 2009 MLB postseason. October Nights will air Tuesdays (7:00 – 9:00 message ET) on SIRIUS XM’s Mad Dog Radio channel, accessible civic on SIRIUS approach 123 and XM approach 144.

Jackson and Pidto will yield calls from admirers about the country and action an able attending at the playoff account in the American and Civic leagues. Jackson, one of the a lot of clamp playoff performers of all time, will allocution about his own adventures in the postseason and will action admirers a able angle on the Fall Classic and aggregate arch up to it - the atmosphere, the pressure, and the activity of acceptable or accident the title.

“There’s annihilation abroad like October baseball,” said Jackson. “Everything and anybody all-overs up a cleft – the competition, the fans, the acuteness of every pitch. I was advantageous to be a allotment of it abounding times in my career and I’m searching advanced to talking anon to the admirers about my experiences. There’s no bigger abode to do that than on SIRIUS XM, area we’ll accept a civic admirers and the abandon to allocution about annihilation and aggregate from about the Major Leagues. This is abstraction up to be a agitating postseason with affluence of storylines and I’m aflame to get started.”

Reggie Jackson is one of the a lot of activating postseason performers in baseball history. He played for 11 analysis champions, six banderole winners and 5 World Alternation champions. Nicknamed Mr. October for his clamp playoff hitting, he helped win three after World Alternation titles with the Oakland Athletics in the aboriginal 1970s and two World Alternation with the New York Yankees in 1977 and 1978. His consummate accomplishment was his World Alternation achievement adjoin the L.A. Dodgers in 1977 in which Jackson hit a almanac 5 home runs - including his allegorical three-home run accomplishment in Game 6 – and agape in eight RBI. He accomplished the alternation with a .450 boilerplate and 1.250 slugging allotment and was called the MVP.

Jackson accomplished his career with 563 home runs and 14 All-Star appearances and was adopted to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1993. That aforementioned year, Jackson’s #44 was retired by the Yankees. In 2004, the Oakland Athletics retired the #9 he wore for their franchise. He is one of alone eight Major Leaguers to accept their amount retired by added than one team. Jackson is now a appropriate adviser for the Yankees and serves as a adviser and communication to the team’s players.