I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.
BOB COUSYMy biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.
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Do your best when no one is looking.
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Race wasn’t an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.
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I grew up in the heart of the Depression.
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Bob Brannum was my body guard on the court. He was 6′-6 and built like a bulldog.
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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.
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Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team.
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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.
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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.
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We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens.
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I won the city scoring championship as a senior.
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Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.
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My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.
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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.
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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.
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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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