Mike Jackson

Michael Warren Jackson (born March 27, 1946) is an American former Major League Baseball relief pitcher. He pitched from 1970 to 1973 for the Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, Kansas City Royals and Cleveland Indians. During a four-year baseball career, he compiled 2 wins, 33 strikeouts, and a 5.80 earned run average (ERA).

Jackson was signed by the Philadelphia Phillies after graduating high school in 1964, and spent the first two seasons in the Phillies minor league system before being signed by the Boston Red Sox. He served in the Army during the Vietnam War era, and missed the 1966 and 1967 seasons as a result. Jackson spent 1968 and 1969 with the Red Sox in the minor leagues, and finished the 1969 season with 11 wins, 10 losses, and a 4.76 ERA for the AAA Louisville Colonels. After the season, he was traded back to the Philadelphia Phillies for Gary Wagner. He finished the season with a 1.42 ERA in five games, spending most of the season with the AAA Eugene Emeralds of the Pacific Coast League. On June 11, 1970, he pitched a no-hitter for the Emeralds against the Tucson Toros. After pitching in one game for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1971, Jackson spend two seasons with the Kansas City Royals, pitching in seven games in 1972 and nine in 1973. After being traded from the Royals to the Indians on June 8, 1973, for Steve Mingori, he pitched in his final game on July 27, 1973, and spent the rest of his career in the minors with the Oklahoma City 89ers and the Thetford Mines Pirates before retiring after the 1974 season.