Robert Carson

Benny Chavez

BENNY CHAVEZ: THE ALMOST CHAMP by ROBERT CARSON  The small shabby figure stood quietly on the street corner. A chill wind whipped the bottom of his gray overcoat and his thoughts raced back to a time that had long gone by. He pulled his knarled, brown hands out of his coat pocket and looked at […]

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Chuck Wiggins

CHUCK WIGGINS KING OF THE BACK ALLY BRAWLERS by Robert Carson   On a mild evening in 1942, Chuck Wiggins sat drunkenly on a railing at Ohio and Illinois Street in downtown Indianapolis, situated by Haig’s Drug Store, and a cab stand. Behind the railing there was a stairway with a 40 foot drop. All

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