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Jackson: Martin anti-Semitic toward Holtzman

Reggie Jackson recounts in a taped interview with MSG a 1978 incident in which Billy Martin told an anti-Semitic joke aimed at Yankees pitcher Ken Holtzman.

Jackson adds he wondered whether such feelings might have colored Martin's use of the pitcher, which was limited.

"That's a terrific question,'' he tells his friend and former teammate, Fran Healy. "That's a question I thought...

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