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 CousyWe hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.
Bob CousyMy family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the same boat.
Bob Cousy