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

Bob Cousy

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

Basketball Careers Games
Bob Brannum was my body guard on the court. He was 6′-6 and built like a bulldog.
BOB COUSY

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

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

Basketball Games Riot
French was my first language.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Firsts Language
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 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
I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Ghetto Kids
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
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 grew up in the heart of the Depression.
BOB COUSY

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

Basketball Meals Winning
I had endured six years of frustration so I think winning it all meant more to me than most of the others on the team.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Motivational Team

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

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