David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

Jaffe said. She made up a name for him:
Johnnie Jones. “He was a bad kid. He
was fourteen, fifteen then. He lived with
a seventeen- or eighteen-year-old sister.
His mother lived in Queens. Even the
mother hated us. There was no one for us
to reach out to. So now, November of
the first year, 2007, Dave Glassberg
comes to my office, Wednesday before
Thanksgiving.
“He says, ‘All the guys, all the people
on the team, chipped in and we bought
Johnnie Jones and his family
Thanksgiving dinner tonight.’
“And I said, ‘You’re kidding.’ This
was a bad kid.
“And he goes, ‘You know why we did
it? This is a kid that we’re gonna lose