Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - An biya $ 140,000 a 1975 kuma daya daga cikin 'yan wasan Oakland tara da suka ki sanya hannu kan yarjejeniyar 1976, Jackson ya nemi yarjejeniyar shekaru uku $ 600,000. Tare da 'yanci na kyauta bayan kakar wasa da kuma tsammanin samun karin albashi wanda mai mallakar Athletics Finley bai yarda ya biya ba, an yi ciniki tare da Ken Holtzman da kuma dan wasa mai suna Bill Van Bommel zuwa Baltimore Orioles don Don Baylor, Mike Torrez da Paul Mitchell a ranar 2 ga Afrilu, 1976. Jackson bai sanya hannu kan kwangila ba kuma ya yi barazanar zama a kakar wasa ta bana; ya ba da rahoto ga Orioles makonni hudu bayan haka, kuma ya fara bayyana a farantin farko a kan Baltimore da Oakland duka sun gama na biyu a bangarorinsu a cikin; Yankees da Royals sun ci gaba zuwa ALCS
, na farko ba tare da A ta tun 1970. A lokacin Jackson kadai kakar a Baltimore ya sace 28 tushe, wani aiki-mafi kyau. Jim Palmer daga baya ya rubuta, "Zan ce Reggie Jackson ya kasance mai girman kai. Amma kalmar nan "mai girman kai" ba ta isa ba. " Koyaya, ya yi tunanin Orioles sun yi kuskuren "brick-brained" ta hanyar rashin sanya hannu kan shi zuwa kwangila, yana ba shi damar zama wakili kyauta.