Found this on Wikipedia:
"The shy Howard brother was a mediocre student academically, but excelled as an athlete on the school basketball team. "
Yep, you guessed it. It's in the biography of Curly Howard, one of my all-time idols. Can you imagine him on the court!

The images in my mind are endless.
I wonder if his team had a play called "WOO WOO WOO WOO, Moe, Larry, Cheese"? Of course, his number must have been double zero.