The Biggest Man in Racin'

Let me tell you a Tom Higgins story -- everybody has a Tom Higgins story -- but first, I should explain just how big a man Tom was. He had to be eight feet tall, and he had a voice that could shake leaves out of trees, and in Charlotte, N.C., before the banks glittered uptown and the Carolina Panthers came in, Tom was the most important man in town.

He b…