
Purchase
Life with the Boss and the Bronx Bombers
Liveright
September 2012
On Sale: September 3, 2012
288 pages ISBN: 0871404613 EAN: 9780871404619 Kindle: B007P9M3GS Hardcover / e-Book
Add to Wish List
Non-Fiction Sports
If it was not all so true, youβd 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 Bossβdriven by a compassionate inner voiceβreclaims 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 baseballβs greatest starsβBilly Martin, Reggie Jackson, Munson, Mantle, Catfish, A-Rod, Jeter, even Mrs. Lou GehrigβNegron 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
 Media BuzzWeekend Edition Saturday - September 8, 2012
|