Steinbrenner actually had Ray thrown in a jail cell located within the bowels of a building that opened in 1923. As hard as the man they called "The Boss" was on the exterior, he had a soft spot for kids. Steinbrenner, who had only recently purchased the team.
The man who nabbed him was none other than the late George M. Playing hooky from his final day as a high school junior in 1973, he was caught spray-painting an "NY" on the white-painted side of the original Yankee Stadium. Ray earned his start with the Yankees in the most dubious of fashions. The real-life redemption story really belongs to Negron, who began his career with the Yankees as a teenage bat boy on those 1976-78 teams of Thurman Munson, Reggie Jackson and Billy Martin, which were in the World Series all three years and won the last two. And there’s some prison reform elements to it, too.” “A feel-good story centered around the world of baseball. But it’s fair to say that at 38, he’s taking his last crack at it in the “Bottom of the 9th.” It’s a rare second chance that only the movies can offer.
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