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I won the city scoring championship as a senior.

Bob Cousy

We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Neighborhood Queen
French was my first language.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Firsts Language
There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Games Riot
I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Ghetto Kids
We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.
BOB COUSY

Basketball League Strong
It also didn’t take me long to decide that Tri-Cities wasn’t for me, and that I wasn’t going to go there to play basketball.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Cities Play
I won the city scoring championship as a senior.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Cities Senior
I was literally fabricated over in France and born about six months after the boat landed at Ellis Island. This was the heart of the Depression. For the first 12 years of my life we lived in a terrible ghetto on the East River.
BOB COUSY

Ghetto Heart Sports
Back then every small town had a gym, and if itseated more than 2,000 then we’d be interested in playing in it.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Small Town Towns
We lived in Yorkville, which is located on the East End of Manhattan. It’s further east than Hell’s Kitchen, and back then it was the kind of place where the roaches and cockroaches were big enough to carry away small children.
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Basketball Children Motivational
Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Fans Maine
Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Player Team
Race wasn’t an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Issues Race
My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Meals Winning
These days I smile benignly at the fights that I see in NBA games. There aren’t any broken noses or black eyes, which happened quite often when I played.
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Basketball Eye Fighting
The NBA wasn’t a big deal at that time, so it wasn’t really in my career plans.
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Basketball Careers Games

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