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  • Both Sides of the Line

  • The True Story of a Life-Changing Football Mentor Who Became a Longtime Target of America's Most Wanted
  • By: Kevin Kelly
  • Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
  • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins

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Both Sides of the Line

By: Kevin Kelly
Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
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High school players in a working-class neighborhood in the 1970s gain desperately needed structure and guidance from Jack "Clyde" Dempsey, a scrappy, charismatic coach who seems like nothing more than a football geek. But Coach also happens to be the toughest guy on the streets of Boston, with a temper to match, and it's his secret life as a mob enforcer/collector that forces him to flee the country, becoming one of America's most wanted.

In this memoir a devoted Dempsey disciple, who later became a dean at a private school outside Boston, tries 35 years later to understand his former coach, role model, and mentor - both his good side and his very dark side - and Dempsey's impact on his own life. A completely true story.

©2016 Bancroft Press (P)2016 Bancroft Press

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