The Embarrassement of Riches

The stories like that made it harder for black players to have careers postplaying. People tended to over embellish his talking in the third person and a lot of black players told Ricky stories, but they did not use the third person because Ricky often didn't use third person. He wrote a book in 1992 with a writer, John Shea, and John Shea was immediately thrown off because he never spoke in the thirdperson the whole time they were doing it.