The Yankee Way: Playing, Coaching, and My Life in Baseball

by Willie Randolph,
The Florida Courier, July 18, 2014

Willie Randolph grew up in Brownsville, Brooklyn. As a kid, he played baseball in Betsy Head Playground, a 10-acre park full of broken bottles, garbage, and syringes. "The Jackie Robinson Story," the first book Randolph read, reinforced his determination to make it to the major leagues.