Tim Tysonâ??s home phone number in North Carolina isnâ??t listed, so when the stranger called and introduced himself, the first thing Tyson wondered was how he got the number.
“I didnâ??t even catch his name,” Tyson was recalling this week.
That was three years ago, and the man – whose name was Bob Steel – sure knew Tyson. He especially knew Tysonâ??s 2004 book, “Blood Done Sign My Name,” which was written and published during the 13 years Tyson spent at UW-Madison as a professor of Afro-American Studies.