Yankee Miracles: Life with the Boss and the Bronx Bombers (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780871404619)

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.

Author: Ray Negron, Sally Cook
ISBN-10: 0871404613
ISBN-13: 9780871404619
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 09/03/2012
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/11/2012 pg. 43
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2012
Shelf Awareness 09/07/2012
Booklist 09/01/2012 pg. 38