Yankee Miracles: Life with the Boss and the Bronx Bombers

Yankee Miracles: Life with the Boss and the Bronx Bombers

â€œYou donâ€™t have to be a Yankees fan to love Yankee Miracles.â€â€•Yogi Berra
If it was not all so true, youâ€™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 Bossâ€•driven by a compassionate inner voiceâ€•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 baseballâ€™s greatest starsâ€•Billy Martin, Reggie Jackson, Munson, Mantle, Catfish, A-Rod, Jeter, even Mrs. Lou Gehrigâ€•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. 8 photographs
Country USA
Brand LIVERIGHT
Manufacturer Liveright
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2012-09-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780871404619

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