In the visitors’ dressing room deep beneath the stands at Chicago’s Comiskey Park, Charles Sonny Liston, 28, sat swaddled in towels and a white terry-cloth bathrobe. He stared at the green ...

The 10-foot bronze sculpture commemorates Ali's place in Maine history, when he defeated Sonny Liston in the first round of their title fight in 1965.

Last September, I sat in Comiskey Park, in Chicago, and saw Charles (Sonny) Liston win the heavyweight boxing championship of the world from Floyd Patterson by knocking him out in two minutes and ...