Birmingham was one of the stops along the way of Reggie Jackson’s Hall of Fame baseball career.

The iconic A’s and Yankees slugger played at Rickwood Field in 1967 as member of the Birmingham A’s, then the Double-A affiliate of the then-Kansas City A’s.

Jackson said he had to constantly endure racism at and hotels and restaurants in Birmingham and throughout other cities in the South.

“Coming back here is not easy,” he said during Fox’s pregame show for “MLB at Rickwood Field: A Tribute to the Negro Leagues” between the San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals.

“The racism when I played here, the difficulty of going through different places where we traveled,” he said. “Fortunately, I had a manager and I had players on the team that helped me get through it. But I wouldn’t wish it on anybody.”

The Birmingham part of his career was painful for Jackson to revisit.

“I would never want to do it again,” he said. “I walked into restaurants and they would point at me and they’d say, ‘n—–, can’t eat here.’

“I would go to a hotel and they would say, ‘the n—– can’t stay here,’” Jackson said.

Charlie Finley, the owner of the A’s, once marched the whole team out of the country club where he was a member after the club staff would not let Jackson eat. Only when Finley threatened to take the team to another establishment was Jackson served at the country club.

Birmingham A’s manager Johnny McNamara also stood up for Jackson.

Jackson said the team would drive to the next hotel if the one they stopped at would not allow Jackson to sleep.

“If I couldn’t eat in the place, nobody would eat,” Jackson said.

He noted that Theophilus Eugene ‘Bull’ Connor was Birmingham’s safety commissioner just years before Jackson arrived in the Magic City.

“I wouldn’t wish it on anyone,” Jackson said of his experience in Birmingham.

“At the same time, had it not been for my white friends … I would’ve never made it. I was too physically violent,” he said. “I was physically ready to fight someone. I would’ve gotten killed here because I would have beaten someone’s ass and you would’ve saw me in an oak tree somewhere.”