Ray Negron, Sally Cook

Yankee Miracles: Life with the Boss and the Bronx Bombers (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 Bossdriven by a compassionate inner voicereclaims 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 starsBilly Martin, Reggie Jackson, Munson, Mantle, Catfish, A-Rod, Jeter, even Mrs. Lou GehrigNegron 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Liveright
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780871403551
• Artikelnr.: 59590920

Autorenporträt

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.