By Bob Delaney
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In a riveting page-turner, NBA referee Bob Delaney unearths the clandestine existence he led ahead of turning into one in all specialist basketball’s most useful officials.
Soon after becoming a member of the hot Jersey kingdom soldiers in 1973, Delaney used to be provided a tantalizing undercover project: to infiltrate the Mob. And so he grew to become Bobby Covert, the president of Alamo Trucking, a fully-operational company utilized by legislation enforcement as flypaper for snagging clever men. whereas donning a twine, Delaney dealt day-by-day with mobsters who modeled themselves after their on-screen opposite numbers (at the top of The Godfather’s popularity), or even crossed paths with Joe Pistone, the real-life Donnie Brasco. After 3 demanding years enjoying a task within which a unmarried slip may well price him his existence, Delaney had accumulated sufficient facts to convict greater than 30 participants of the Genovese and Bruno crime families.
Struggling with post-traumatic tension illness from the stress of his undercover lifestyles, Delaney begun officiating highschool and intramural basketball video games so that it will rebuild his lifestyles, finally operating his method as much as the NBA, the place he has been a referee for over 20 years. this can be his striking precise story.
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In fact, the FBI wasn’t all that far removed from the white-shirt-andtie days of J. Edgar Hoover. Bureau agents still carried themselves in a stiff, buttoned-down manner that didn’t lend itself to the kind of streetsavvy investigation we were trying to get under way. It was no coincidence that our operation had been dubbed Project Alpha—the word “Alpha” symbolizing the first joint venture between the FBI and State Police in a waterfront investigation. qxp 10/10/07 4:56 PM Page 40 government that provided money for local and state police departments that didn’t have the budgets to conduct major investigations.
Jimmy played soccer, baseball, and basketball. There were only about forty kids in the class, so we both became leaders because of our athletic success. I readily admit that I wasn’t much of a student. There were no girls to distract us, so sports dominated almost every waking moment. I was already about six feet and could dunk the ball. Jimmy was 511 and our best defensive guy. We’d regularly get write-ups in the Paterson Evening News and Newark Star-Ledger. During summer evenings, to improve our play, we’d hop on a bus and go to Manhattan to find pickup games on inner-city playgrounds against some very talented black and Hispanic players.
Jimmy played soccer, baseball, and basketball. There were only about forty kids in the class, so we both became leaders because of our athletic success. I readily admit that I wasn’t much of a student. There were no girls to distract us, so sports dominated almost every waking moment. I was already about six feet and could dunk the ball. Jimmy was 511 and our best defensive guy. We’d regularly get write-ups in the Paterson Evening News and Newark Star-Ledger. During summer evenings, to improve our play, we’d hop on a bus and go to Manhattan to find pickup games on inner-city playgrounds against some very talented black and Hispanic players.