Mike Jackson (left-handed pitcher)

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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. Jackson made his major league debut with the Phillies against the Los Angeles Dodgers on May 10, 1970, in which he pitched the final 11⁄3 innings in a 7–0 loss, giving up three hits, walking one and striking out one. The very first batter he faced was future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Don Sutton. During the at

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