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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
- Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Sports
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Publisher's Summary
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.
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- Henry J Staines
- 08-06-2020
CM alum and enjoyed hearing of the success
Well done, some Boston street name mispronunciations. Truly too bad for Dempsey demise, seemed to be a great help
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