The Game Was Good To Me
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The Ups and Downs of the Sharecropper’s Son
These are some special notes and highlights that I hope will encourage the writer, the editor, publisher, and agent to continue to read this book so a wise decision can be made.
This book will explain how I worked my way from the cotton fields of Alabama to a number one street on the Upper East Side in NYC, Sutton Place. Where during this time when I applied for an apartment, the owners told me that only movie stars and retired millionaires lived in the building. I must have fitted that description; they rented me apartment # 2A, a well furnished apartment. At that time, I was the only black in the building. Later, I rented four more apartments to use for organized crime for 17 years.
I will explain how I hired six attorneys during my big income tax case, but on the day of the trial, I fired all but one. I represented myself, and got a dismissal.
I will explain about the big victory party, after winning my income tax case, at the Hilton on 53rd and Ave of the Americas, then headed to Vegas, where I gave another big victory party at the Hilton in Las Vegas. My guest was the chief deputy D.A for 15 years in Vegas, Charlie Garnett. Wilson Pickett and his drummer, Crusher, were my guests also.
I will explain about the amazing performance of Dona the Black Magic Woman that I met in Louisville, KY. She was on welfare when she came to my club for a job as a waitress and dancer. From there to Sutton Place in NYC, Dona was the only black girl on Sutton Place. I groomed her to the point where she worked in the daytime at Waldorf, Astoria as a first class call girl dealing with diplomats from the United Nations.
Dona was jet black, tall, built like a brick s**t house, beautiful white teeth and walked like a race horse. She had the image of an African model. At night she would dance and sing at after hours clubs in midtown NYC. This book will tell about how I moved her to Hollywood and prepared her to go on network television on the talent show, The Gong Show.
This book will talk about where and how I met my super star, Ruth, who helped me in every way needed to be a successful player for 26 years. She was my backbone.
This book will tell how Ruth took care of my business while I spent 3 ½ years in the big federal joint. Also about all the money that she had for me when I was released, the big cocaine party; the new 1966 Florentine Gold Cadillac convertible with black leather seats, loaded with everything; a new apartment with white carpet and all new furniture; a limousine to pick me up from prison on my release day and much, much more.
This book will tell how the street police, on several occasions, planted drugs in my apartment, in my car, and also on me in NYC, Mobile, Alabama, Lake Charles, Louisiana, Houston, Texas and Las Vegas and how I would get out and get cases dismissed.
This book will tell about my connections with the United States Attorney General, Davon Huston, in Las Vegas, who was my attorney before being United States Attorney General. I will talk about how I could call him at his house and got released instantly.
I will explain how the top brass police officers came to one of my townhouses in Las Vegas, handcuffed me and beat me unmercifully after winning my income tax case and forced me to leave town. I set up in Hollywood, California on Larabie Street, North Hollywood, near the Whiskey-a-go-go, a very popular club on Sunset Boulevard.
When the contents of this book are completed, I believe this will be a good ending. The game was extremely good to me, but I was also extremely good to the game. It’s a true fact, that if you be good to the game, the game will be good to you, but you can never stop the ups and downs. It will be proven in this book. The truth is the light.
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About the Book
Yes, The Game Was Good To Me, until I discovered the Holy Spirit and Salvation, becoming a Born Again Christian. For many of my adult years, I lived a life of wrong doings, transgressions, and sin. My earliest recollections were as an earth bound child dragging a heavy gunnysack through fields of cotton and corn towering over my head. I was a sharecropper’s son, barefooted and destined to toil for the rest of my life in a no-win, hard rock situation. My family and I were indentured slaves to a harsh southern system! From these humble beginnings, I started a fantastic journey through self-discipline and soul survivorship, step-by-step, through the nightmarish world of "file de joie" and many devious adventures. I became very successful and lived in a post enclave on the famed Sutton Place, New York City. I flew high, rubbing shoulders with "fast players," movers, and city-slick shakers! I covered many major cities as my fortunes ebbed and flowed, but always came up smelling like a rose! How sweet it was! In The Game Was Good to Me I do not use the real names of my friends, associates, and acquaintances unless I have their full approval; otherwise, substitute names are used to protect their privacy. I sincerely feel that my greedy story will be a warning to young men who may attempt to walk the same dangerous paths that I once followed.
About the Author
His name is John Crawley. Some know him as Crawley. On the farm, they called him Jake. They called him "Mr. C" on Sutton Place, where he made millions! He is a promoter, businessman, and sportsman. He is not that four letter word that he detests so much ‘p -- p!’ He is a man of character who places integrity at the top of the list. John has a young modern mind floating in wisdom. He is a man who gets things done once he makes his mind up to do so. He was a lover sensitive to women with a model type image, as he called it, but not uncontrollable! He would like to have a Proverb 31:10 woman, mentioned in the Bible. He is not a trick or sucker and definitely not a fool! John is willing to share his heart, soul, mind and body as well as income with the woman of his choice. His choices of women were Black American, White American, and Scandinavian. His role model is Hugh Hefner, "The Play Boy King." John has all the qualities of a king! He recently retired from the taxi-limousine business to devote all of his time to writing and making plans to open his Jazz Club, The Chandelier Cocktail Lounge and Hasty Tasty Dining Room, in New York City, coming in 2001. (Just keeping it real). There is much, much more to know about John so read the book! It is good drama, exciting moments, with major love roles. John attended many of the seminal special sporting events that defined the age of the1960s through ‘80s, including the Kentucky Derbys; Mohammed Ali Fights, Sugar Ray Leonard; Roberto Duran in New Orleans when he said ‘no mas!’ and the Super Bowl Game 1982.