Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful at anything you put your mind to

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

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.

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.

The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.

There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.

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.