{"id":485,"date":"2017-09-03T14:59:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T14:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batboyhelps.com\/blog\/?p=485"},"modified":"2020-08-28T10:12:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T14:12:25","slug":"negrons-impact-hanks-yanks-are-the-angels-with-dirty-faces-in-stano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraynegronstory.com\/columns\/negrons-impact-hanks-yanks-are-the-angels-with-dirty-faces-in-stano\/","title":{"rendered":"Negron\u2019s Impact: Hank\u2019s Yanks Are The Angels With Dirty Faces in Stano"},"content":{"rendered":"

If your an old movie buff, you might remember the great movie\u00a0Angels with Dirty Faces,<\/em>\u00a0which was done in 1939 with the great James Cagney. Then there was the great film,\u00a0They Made Me Criminal<\/em>. That film starred John Garfield a wonderful actor who got caught up in the communist hearings of the 1950s and basically got blacklisted.<\/p>\n

Both of these films were critically acclaimed by a very tough media at the time. Both of these films co-starred The Dead End Kids. They were a gang of kids that came from New York. A big producer spotted these kids tested them and took a shot with them in a film and the rest is history. They would go on to great fame doing their own movies, also known as the Eastside Kids and later The Bowery Boys.<\/p>\n

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James Cagney and the Dead End Kids.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The latest film project that I\u2019m working on is called\u00a0Stano<\/em>.\u00a0 It\u2019s a great story about a kid from Arthur Ave in the Bronx who because of his natural baseball ability has the world at his feet until he makes a tragic mistake and must pay the price.<\/p>\n

This film Stars Joe Manganiello as Sonny Stano and Sofia Vergara as the love he left behind.<\/p>\n

The film also has a group of kids that were originally taken from the tough streets of New York over ten years ago by Hank Steinbrenner to form the first Hank\u2019s Yanks baseball team. Many of these kids went from street gangs to go on and get college educations and a few of them went on to play professional baseball.<\/p>\n

This past week I got to see Manganiello do a scene with Brandon Martinez, an original Hank\u2019s Yank and to say that it brought tears to my eyes would be an understatement .<\/p>\n

Brandon just finished his final year of college and expected to be drafted in the Major League Baseball draft. For what ever reason it didn\u2019t happen. It broke his heart and it broke my heart even more because as their manager these kids become your sons. I could only tell Brandon and his dad Angelo that everything happens for a reason.<\/p>\n

Well, that reason has become\u00a0Stano<\/em>. Brandon\u2019s other love interest was the arts and it\u2019s become story book the way this has happened for him.<\/p>\n

\"\"My other player on the film is Bryan Dromerhauser a catcher on Hank\u2019s Yanks who also should be playing pro ball, but just didn\u2019t get the break. Bryan was studying acting in California when I call him about\u00a0Stano<\/em>. No one gave Bryan anything. He went to the audition and just took the part. Another bad boy on the film is Anthony Rossati. A terrific pitcher that reaches 95 on the radar gun but just didn\u2019t get the chance.<\/p>\n

In all, there are about eight Hank\u2019s Yanks players involved in the film and they are having the time of their lives.<\/p>\n

When I watch Manganiello doing his scenes with these kids it reminds me of those two great films and it makes me wonder if that\u2019s the way it was working with Cagney and Garfield.<\/p>\n

I asked Brandon what did he get out of working with Joe and he said how natural and yet intense he was in such a strong scene.<\/p>\n

The players love how such an established actor like Manganiello can be so generous in making them feel like they belong.<\/p>\n

Kudos to a wonderful script written by Robert Bruzio a true Bronx boy from Arthur Ave .\u00a0 Filming will continue all throughout New York City until the end of September and the film is directed by the terrific Raymond Defelitta.<\/p>\n

Weekends Belong To Ray on 1050 ESPN Deportes. Read him on Newsmax.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If your an old movie buff, you might remember the great movie\u00a0Angels with Dirty Faces,\u00a0which was done in 1939 with the great James Cagney. Then there was the great film,\u00a0They Made Me Criminal. That film starred John Garfield a wonderful actor who got caught up in the communist hearings of the 1950s and basically got … <\/p>\n

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