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I won the city scoring championship as a senior.

Bob Cousy

People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Country Differences
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
I grew up in the heart of the Depression.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Grow Heart
That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns – the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Fans Team
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
Kerner decided to trade my rights to the Chicago Stags, which sounded better to me than Tri-Cities, but the Stags folded up almost immediately.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Cities Rights
French was my first language.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Firsts Language
Do your best when no one is looking.
BOB COUSY

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

Basketball Games Riot
Sports create a bond between comtemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure fulfillment that few other areas of endeavor provide.
BOB COUSY

Athlete Sports Success
The NBA wasn’t a big deal at that time, so it wasn’t really in my career plans.
BOB COUSY

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

Basketball League Strong
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
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.
BOB COUSY

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

Basketball Meals Winning

I won the city scoring championship as a senior.

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