(Originally published by the Daily News on November 30, 1976. This story was written by Phil Pepe.)
Introducing America’s newest candy bar - the Reggie Jackson, chewy, filled with nuts and covered with a pin-stripe wrapper.
The voluble Jackson, who once boasted, “If I played in New York, they’d name a candy bar for me,” was officially unveiled as the newest Yankee at a gala press conference at the Americana Hotel yesterday afternoon, the kind of affair that is worthy of baseball’s newest millionaire.
Dressed in a blue-grey, three-button suit with brass buttons and a blue tied and exuding class, confidence, poise, happiness and affluence, Jackson told the gathering, that included his mother and father and his new teammates Thurman Munson and Roy White, that he had turned down more money for the privilege of wearing the pin stripes.