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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.

Bob Cousy

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
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
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
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
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
French was my first language.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Firsts Language
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 won the city scoring championship as a senior.
BOB COUSY

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

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

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

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

Basketball Issues Race
Do your best when no one is looking.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Famous Player

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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