Carl Furillo, Brooklyn Dodgers All-Star
"This book needed to be written and Ted Reed has done his homework" --Carl Erskine, Brooklyn Dodgers"This book offers something unique, something that even the most prominent sportswriters of the past were unable to obtain: extensive, in-depth interviews with Carl Furillo…. The author has given him the voice and the venue he never had when he was alive." --Judith Testa, author of Sal Maglie, Baseball's Demon Barber"Reed is at his best in analyzing and clarifying the two specific incidents that diminished Furillo's image when his playing days ended. He uses Furillo's own words along with the testimony of teammates, to refute the charge that he was opposed to Jackie Robinson joining the Dodgers in 1947. The more significant 'rap' against Furillo concerns his 1960 departure from the Dodgers. The roles of Marvin Miller, Andy Messersmith, Dave McNally, and Curt Flood have been well covered in the literature of baseballs labor-management relations. But Furillo's case, which appears to be a gross injustice, has not." --Lyle Spatz, baseball historian.