Courtesy USA Today

(September 25, 2009) Reggie Jackson would like to call TV baseball games. "It's certainly something I'd do again," says Jackson, who appeared on ABC games years before he retired in 1987. "I'd like to, but haven't gotten my own network yet. You have to be asked."

And TBS has asked him to join its upcoming postseason coverage. He'll do a series of taped interviews with past greats such as Bob Gibson and Frank Robinson that will appear on-air and online.

TBS will carry all first-round MLB playoff games as well as the National League Championship Series. Fox will carry the ALCS and World Series.

Jackson says the idea of the interviews, which might include other greats such as Yogi Berra and Derek Jeter, is to talk about "the characteristics of players who've been successful when the heat is on."

On whether baseball should tweak its postseason format to create more heat amid competition for attention from football, Jackson suggests he'd favor expanding first-round playoff series from best of five to best of seven. And when it comes to the World Series, he says, "I'd love day games."

Jackson, who has been an analyst on ESPN, says he was "hurt" and "disappointed" by what he says were many inaccuracies in how he was portrayed in the 2007 ESPN miniseries The BronxisBurning. But he'd be open to going back to working for the network: "I'm too old to hold grudges."

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