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Impersonating a pirate was part of his marketing plan. Born on Christmas Day, 1946, in Pascagoula, Miss., Buffett was raised in Mobile, Ala., where his father worked in the shipyard. He was an altar boy who busted loose, discovering girls and guitars at Pearl River Junior College in Poplarville, Miss., playing acid rock in the clubs of New Orleans, moving to Nashville and working for Billboard, and failing in his first bid for folkie stardom (his debut album stiffed, and his second was put on the shelf). In 1971 he fled Tennessee and a bad first marriage and wound...
Your list of 20th century baseball records that won't be broken anytime soon [SPORT, July 27] should have included Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski's astonishing 1966 mark of 161 double plays in one season. JOHN T. BIRD Birmingham, Ala...
What becomes a legend most? Mystery and elusiveness--and keeping several steps ahead of the law. Six months ago, when federal agents identified Eric Robert Rudolph as the man they believe responsible for the Jan. 29 bombing of an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., that killed an off-duty police officer and severely wounded a nurse, they were confident they would arrest the itinerant carpenter within a matter of days. But like a latter-day, albeit sinister, Robin Hood eluding the Sheriff of Nottingham, Rudolph, 31, a former private in the 101st Airborne skilled at surviving in the wilderness, vanished...
...Albertville-Boaz (Ala.) Reporter story appeared on April 10, 1990. A day that will not soon be forgotten in these parts. The story began like this...
...sharecropper farm in Alabama to the front lines of the battle for racial justice during the 1960s; he never flinched as he suffered arrests and beatings during the lunch-counter sit-ins in Nashville, Tenn., the Freedom Rides and the brutal police assault on "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Ala., that paved the way to the movement's greatest triumph, the Voting Rights...