"That perfect season takes on new dimensions when Little talks about growing up a fat kid in Miami who sat in the Orange Bowl's segregated bleachers watching games, who bought the tasty hot dogs at McCrory's store but couldn't legally eat them at the counter and who snuck a drink at the white-only fountain in the W.D. Grant store to see if it tasted different."
"He is an iconic name, the best guard in Dolphins history, a Hall of Famer, looking back at his life and his football at 79. And his view isn't limited to a 100-yard field. He wrote about it in his autobiography, "From the Outhouse to the Penthouse,'' that he'll talk about Tuesday at Books & Books in Coral Gables at 5:30 p.m."
Larry Little grew up in segregated Miami, frequently excluded from facilities and treated as second-class despite childhood hunger and poverty. He recalled sitting in the Orange Bowl's segregated bleachers, buying hot dogs he could not eat at the counter, and sneaking a drink at a white-only fountain that felt colder than the 'colored' fountain. His father was an abusive alcoholic, and Little faced physical and social obstacles early in life. College bus trips with Bethune-Cookman required toilet paper distribution because the all-black team could not use public restrooms. He rose to become the Dolphins' premier guard, a Hall of Famer, and wrote an autobiography about his journey.
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