This was more difficult, ... because with Griffith, there was a story line. This was a piece of nonfiction information that I had to weave together.

[Perez is a wonderful storyteller in the piece showing a rare openness.] People had told me 'Tony Perez was private. He's not controversial. He won't say too much,' ... But he was so unbelievably open. It's the subject. They (Latin ballplayers) all want to talk about this.

I've allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own story to tell. But I have done my best to make it tell a truthful story.

The Andy Griffith Show.

It was much worse than the so-called negro. It's about a triple form of discrimination -race, language and culture.

To bring it up now, as an attempt to gain leverage and a better settlement during the divorce, is just reprehensible.