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

but there are seven other kids in that
family. We had to do something for
them.’
“I had tears in my eyes. Then he said,
‘Well, we have all these other families.
What are we going to do?’ It’s ten a.m.,
day before Thanksgiving, and I said,
‘Dave, what if I go to the police
commissioner and see if I can get two
thousand bucks and see if we can buy a
turkey for every family? Could we do
it?’”
She went upstairs to the executive
level of police headquarters, and begged
for two minutes with the police
commissioner. “I said, ‘This is what
Dave Glassberg did with the team. I