A fellow was in the Burg Grocery this past week and told me a story about Babe Bisignano who had a restaurant that was legendary in downtown Des Moines(6th & Grand) for many years through the` 1940's up through 1991.
The story goes that a young Black player by the name of Milt Jackson had been recruited by Notre Dame who Babe was a big supporter of at the time. The school asked for Babe's help in giving the young football player a job at his restaurant during the summer. The story goes and supposedly from the Babe himself was that Milt Jackson asked Babe not to tell his folks that he stayed in the house of an Italian!
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