If anyone wants to read a really good book on him, check out
www.amazon.com/Hurricane-Miraculous-Journey-Rubin-Carter/dp/0618087281
The author was one of my closer friends in HS, and more recently he wrote the big best-selling bio of Willie Mays. I got Urth a signed copy of that one (and the Giants promptly won the World Series, coincidence?)
Which, I might add, was an excellent read; it really illuminated a lot of the Giants history for me, in addition to going into Willie's life in great detail. And I learned a lot about SF in the 60s, too. Like that Willie lived in a neighborhood less than a mile from where I lived in SF -- who'd have guessed?