A seventeen-year-old from Queens spray paints graffiti on Yankee Stadium and gets nabbed
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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.
“Much of sports can leave us skeptical if not cynical. But I defy anyone to read Ray Negron's remarkable story and not come away believing that there still can be genuine heart, soul, and even redemption in the games we watch and play.” (Bob Costas)
“Hard as it is to recommend yet another book about the Yankees -— especially this bouquet by a longtime employee —- it’s just as hard not to be touched by Negron’s story …Even avowed Yankee haters will be warmed by stories of Alex Rodriguez’s outreach to a local youth baseball team, Derek Jeter’s private chat with a young cancer patient in a corner of the Yankees clubhouse, and the gruff but heartfelt kindness Munson would extend to teammates, opposing players, and the young Negron.” (
Booklist)
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS GIVEAWAY IS FOR PRE-PUBLICATION ADVANCED READER COPIES AND NOT FINAL BOOKS
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