Yankee Miracles: Life with the Boss and the Bronx Bombers
Ray Negron · Sally Cook
Aug 2012 · W. W. Norton & Company
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“You don’t have to be a Yankees fan to love Yankee Miracles.”—Yogi Berra If it was not all so true, you’d think it was a fairy tale. A seventeen-year-old from Queens spray paints graffiti on Yankee Stadium and gets nabbed by George Steinbrenner himself. Contrary to his gruff public image, the Boss—driven by a compassionate inner voice—reclaims the teen at a time when the Bronx is literally burning. Thus begins the unlikeliest of baseball stories, one in which Ray Negron is transformed from street kid to batboy and beyond. Befriending many of major league baseball’s greatest stars—Billy Martin, Reggie Jackson, Munson, Mantle, Catfish, A-Rod, Jeter, even Mrs. Lou Gehrig—Negron ultimately emerges as a dynamic community leader, dedicating his own life to helping the sick and rescuing generations of city kids from unfulfilled lives. Yankee Miracles is a book about the power of baseball to transform lives, about all those miracles on 161st Street we never knew were there.
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Christian Quick
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October 20, 2014
Ray Negron captivates me with stories of great yankees and inspiring stories of him and his life allowing one to feel as if they're in the book, a must read for everyone
Joseph Negron
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October 16, 2014
Stories told excellent
About the author
Ray Negron, a community advisor for the New York Yankees, is the author of three children’s books and the producer of an animated film.
Sally Cook, the author of two children’s books, is also the coauthor of Another Season, a New York Times bestseller.
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