Ĭonnors was a devoted fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers despite their losing record during the 1930s, and he hoped to join the team one day. Raised as a Catholic, he served as an altar boy at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Brooklyn. His father became a citizen of the United States in 1914 and was working in Brooklyn in 1930 as a longshoreman and his mother had also attained her U.S. He had one sibling, a sister, Gloria, who was two years his junior. 2.2 Professional basketball (1946–1948)Ĭonnors was born on April 10, 1921, in Brooklyn, New York City, the elder of two children born to Marcella ( née Londrigan) and Alban Francis "Allan" Connors, immigrants of Irish descent from Newfoundland and Labrador.
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