Sublime

“I think Michael got so good because Larry used to beat him all the time,” James Jordan would explain later. “He took it hard.”

Shad Davis. He has a son. He’s a scrap collector, does odd jobs and such for the colored on the Hill. I believe they call him Fatty,”

Years later he explained that he made the selection because 23 was close to half of 45, a number that his brother Larry had worn.

Fatty Davis, a clever, stout, two-fisted, gregarious hustler who owned the Hill’s only jook joint, was also twelve then, and the two became fast friends.