Known as hockey's Jackie Robinson, Herbert Carnegie was the complete hockey package in the 1940s and 1950s, and his contributions to society both in sport and education have been referenced and profiled in thousands of articles, books, and documentaries. Born in Toronto in 1919 to Jamaican immigrant parents, this is Carnegie's own account of his life and his feelings about the glass ceiling he continually strove to break through, starting with his career as a professional hockey player on all-white teams. In 1978, noted hockey journalist Stan Fischler wrote a powerful headline about Carnegie that read, simply, "Born Too Soon." Those three words reflect his struggle. A Fly in a Pail of Milk reveals the feelings of a trailblazer who evolved into a truly amazing individual, a man who proved to be unstoppable in his resolve to make contributions that would make our world a better place.