The American League's Reggie Jackson follows through on a towering third inning home run with a man on base in All-Star game in Detroit on July 13, 1971.

Reggie Jackson’s 539-foot 1971 All-Star Game home run ... Detroit Free Press might print a figure that he heard from some guy who changed floodlights on the rightfield roof of Tiger Stadium ...

Six future Hall of Famers hit round-trippers in a Home Run Derby of sorts during the 1971 All-Star Game at Detroit's Tiger Stadium.

Detroit News writer Lynn Henning remembers when Reggie Jackson of the Oakland A's hit a mammoth home run at Tiger Stadium in the 1971 All-Star Game. In the bottom of the third inning and with a 25 ...

It was 50 years ago this month that Reggie Jackson — then No. 9 of the Oakland A’s, not No. 44 of the Yankees — hit a home run off the light tower at Detroit’s Tiger Stadium in the All ...

American League first baseman Harmon Killebrew, right, crosses home plate after his home run in the sixth inning in the All-Star Game on July 13, 1971 at Tiger Stadium in Detroit. Tigers' Al ...

Tiger Stadium hosted All-Star Game of the ages 50 ... The signature moment was when Oakland’s Reggie Jackson hit a home run off Pittsburgh’s Dock Ellis that hit the light tower on top of the ...