By Allison Steele and Mike Newall
Philadelphia Inquirer
September 22, 2011
http://articles.philly.com/2011-09-22/news/30189710_1_sexual-contact-boy-home-baseball-coach
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| Louis Spadaccini, 37, of South Phila. |
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| Lou Spadaccini, while Neuman-Gorretti head coach, works with Michael Zolk as he slides… (RON CORTES / Staff Photographer) |
Residents of Louis Spadaccini's South Philadelphia neighborhood know the 37-year-old baseball coach as a friendly, outgoing neighbor, a guy who sits out on the steps and plays ball with children in the street.
Alex Butler, 20, who lives a few doors away from Spadaccini, grew up playing baseball with him and had friends who were coached by him while on the team at SS. Neumann-Goretti High School.
The coach sometimes visited players at their homes for team dinners or parties, Butler said, and parents were always there, too. Butler never heard rumors about the coach, and none of his friends on the team ever confided anything unusual about Spadaccini.
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