John Dockery (September 6, 1944) is an American sportscaster and former

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defensive back who played for the New York Jets and later the Pittsburgh Steelers from 1968 to 1973. He graduated from Brooklyn Preparatory a Jesuit High School where he lettered in football, basketball, and baseball. He was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Jets out of Harvard. He spent the last two years of his playing career with the Steelers.John Dockery
pro-football-reference.com In 1965, he played collegiate summer baseball for the now defunct Sagamore Clouters of the Cape Cod Baseball League. A first-baseman, Dockery played alongside future major league manager

Bob Schaefer Robert Walden Schaefer (born May 22, 1944) is an American baseball executive. He is currently the special assistant to the general manager with the Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball (MLB), and is a former interim manager, bench coach ...

under Clouters' manager Lou Lamoriello, who skippered the team to the 1965 league title.Price, Christopher. ''Baseball by the Beach'', Hyannis, MA: Parnassus Imprints, 1998, p.144. . Following his retirement, Dockery went on to co-host ''Sports Extra'' on

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with Bill Mazer. He also served as a color analyst for ''

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'' telecasts as well as a sideline reporter for ''

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''. Dockery served as a sideline reporter for ''

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radio from 1999 to 2007. Prior to that, he served as analyst for the network's '' Sunday Night Football'' radiocasts, as well as sideline reporter for other games. Dockery continues to serve the game of football by co-organizing a youth football camp with Joe Namath that is in this 44th year. Additionally after his sports career Dockery founded Cambridge Corporate Services in 1998, a New York-based outsourcing service provider.

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Full roster of all American Football League players 1960 - 1969Joe Namath / John Dockery Football CampCambridge Corporate Services
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