{"id":796,"date":"2018-09-24T22:17:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T02:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theraynegronstory.com\/columns\/?p=796"},"modified":"2020-08-28T10:12:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T14:12:14","slug":"the-boss-goes-to-bat-for-a-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraynegronstory.com\/columns\/the-boss-goes-to-bat-for-a-kid\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boss goes to bat for a kid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COMING at us soon is a new stage show about the New York Yankees. The story of a former choirboy turned troublemaker. Confronting him, in 1973, a rescuer throws him into a holding pen in Yankee Stadium. Rescuer George Steinbrenner liked the kid, made him a batboy and he became the Boss\u2019 right-hand man for 36 years. The Kid? <strong>Ray Negron<\/strong>. Today he\u2019s a Yankees exec who advises on community relations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COMING at us soon is a new stage show about the New York Yankees. The story of a former choirboy turned troublemaker. Confronting him, in 1973, a rescuer throws him into a holding pen in Yankee Stadium. Rescuer George Steinbrenner liked the kid, made him a batboy and he became the Boss\u2019 right-hand man for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theraynegronstory.com\/columns\/the-boss-goes-to-bat-for-a-kid\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Boss goes to bat for a kid&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ray-negrons-play-ball-weekly-blog","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraynegronstory.com\/columns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraynegronstory.com\/columns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraynegronstory.com\/columns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraynegronstory.com\/columns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraynegronstory.com\/columns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theraynegronstory.com\/columns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"https:\/\/theraynegronstory.com\/columns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraynegronstory.com\/columns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraynegronstory.com\/columns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraynegronstory.com\/columns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraynegronstory.com\/columns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}