Current resident of Ali's boyhood home doesn't mind the curious

LOUISVILLE, KY. -- Muhammad Ali was reared in a modest shotgunhouse at 3302 W. Grand Ave. in the West End neighborhood ofLouisville. Born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., on Jan. 17, 1942, inLouisville General Hospital, he was about 5 when his family movedhere from 1121 W. Oak St. across town.

Maurice Patterson and his family have been living in the historicGrand Avenue home for five months.

"When I moved in, the landlord told me Muhammad Ali grew up here,"Patterson said during a recent impromptu interview on his frontporch.

I had merely walked up to the house and knocked on Patterson'sdoor. His son, Maurice, 8, and his nephew, Cameron, 6, were playingin the …