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...born on a sharecropper's farm some 40 miles north of Memphis. Orphaned soon after birth, he was raised by his grandparents. "Bubba," as he was called in those days, started singing in church choir lofts when he was five. Moving to Memphis a few years later, he began scrounging for work in black clubs, notably Curry's Tropicana and the Tiki Club. He did one-nighters at moonshine joints in towns like Greasy Corner, Ark., sometimes with his own group, Sir Isaac and the Doo-Dads. He spent one night sleeping on a crap table, one whole...
Back in Memphis, Isaac Hayes is a more secular hero, but nonetheless a hero. "Hey, Bubba," the white owner of a propane gas station calls as Isaac cruises by in his turquoise El Dorado. "You gotta give me an autograph for my daughter; she doesn't believe you used to work for me." Isaac signs, then nods to a friend: "I used to wash cars and mow the grass around here...
...games this season because of injuries, he will not be overlooked by the pro recruiters. Rearing up like a grizzly, he is tall and rangy enough "to bat down passes like flies." He may need some seasoning, but the pros feel that he already compares favorably with Big Brother Bubba of the Baltimore Colts...
...Colts are not the ideal team for anyone to face in its NFL debut. They have one of the League's best defensive lines (reinforced now with Bubba Smith, an amazing giant from Michigan State who played the whole game at defensive end), the League's classiest (if not best) quarterback, and the surest group of receivers in the business. That's a tall order for the Patriots, who have been scrambling to put some kind of consistent offense-defensive secondary ent offense and defensive secondary together...
Reggie Smith won the game in the Sox half of the inning. First up, he hit a sinking liner to right that skipped past California outfielders Bubba Morton for three bases. Ace reliever Minnie Rojas, who had given up his third and fourth home runs of the season the night before to the Sox, struck out catcher Russ Gibson and got pinch hitter Jerry Adair to hit a grounder to third. Watching the potential winning run instead of the ball, infielder Paul Schaal let it go through his legs to end the game...