The man they call Sir.
Des Moines, Iowa, 1937: a first-born son arrives without a heartbeat, and a young father refuses to accept it. The story made news across the city — and the boy they called the Miracle Baby has been hard to ignore ever since.
He fell for his kindergarten teacher and set off a county-wide search when she broke his heart. He befriended the outcast everyone else called a witch — and watched a courtroom prove him right about her. Licensed to preach at seventeen, he once talked a motorcycle gang into the front two rows of Sunday service.
Then came Chicago’s toughest classrooms, where the students started calling him Sir — a name that has followed him for sixty years. In 1965 he traded winters for Los Angeles and spent forty-two years teaching, directing shows, and collecting the stories that fill this book.
