He cast his lot with Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey, where he developed his natural athletic ability. Upon graduation from Adelphi, more than 25 colleges offered Connors athletic scholarships. Young Kevin Connors played baseball on the sand lots as a kid and displayed such exceptional ability that he was given an athletic scholarship at Adelphi Academy, making him one of the few youngsters ever to win a prep school scholarship for sports.
As a child of the Depression, he grew up poor in a family that knew hard times, with his mother doing menial jobs and his father perennially unemployed, eventually landing a job as a bank guard in New York City. Born Kevin Joseph Aloysius Connors in Brooklyn, New York on April 10, 1921, Connors was the elder of two children whose parents, originally from Ireland, had immigrated to the US via Newfoundland.
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