It was a triple prejudice, ... They didn't speak the language, so it was easy to say they were stupid.

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

If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself.

[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.

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

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.