Ray Negron's Playball Weekly Blog

Ray Negron's Play Ball Weekly Blog

Chef Marcus amazed by Globetrotters global impact

This past February I was lucky enough to have gotten to check out the Harlem Globetrotters on their long-awaited return …

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Ray Negron's Play Ball Weekly Blog

Candy Cain’s, HEAVY HITTERS!

“HEAVY HITTERS,” the highly anticipated baseball series from Gemelli Films and director Candice (Candy) Cain set to revolutionize the sport …

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Ray Negron's Play Ball Weekly Blog

For Kevin Costner it’s… For the Love of the Game

Yesterday I got to spend a little time with award-winning actor Kevin Costner. Kevin has always been the ultimate gentleman …

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Ray Negron's Play Ball Weekly Blog

Sinatra and Scognamillo… Legends in more ways than one. Especially at Patsy’s

One December night in 1977 I walked into what I thought was just an ordinary Italian restaurant with Yankees manager …

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Ray Negron's Play Ball Weekly Blog

Haley’s Message to C.S.55 .. YOU TOO ARE SOMEBODY!

I have been visiting schools around New York since I was 18 years old. At that time I was a …

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Ray Negron's Play Ball Weekly Blog

It’s always been the way of the Babe… Helping kids like Coop and others!

Ever since I saw movies like The Pride of the Yankees and The Babe Ruth Story, the things that always …

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Ray Negron's Play Ball Weekly Blog

Levine, Rahul Drabid, and Minaya talk Cricket

The first time I ever heard of Cricket was when I saw a movie called Return to Paradise. It was …

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Ray Negron's Play Ball Weekly Blog

Happy Heavenly Birthday Thurman Munson

Today Thurman Munson would be 77 years old. I can’t help but feel sentimental about what could have been. I’m …

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Gemelli films brings Heavy Hitters to Long Island

On the South Shore of Long Island, miles from pulsating urban life of Manhattan, a sacred ground awaited, beckoning the …

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Ray Negron's Play Ball Weekly Blog

Omar Minaya to the rescue on little opening day!

Gabriel Balcacer is the President Of the Bronx‘s largest little league, The International Baseball League.For over twenty years he has …

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Ray Negron's Play Ball Weekly Blog

Our Prayers for Doc. Dwight Gooden Hospitalized

In the middle of the wonderful fanfare because of Doc Gooden’s number 16 being retired at Citi Field, the good …

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Happy birthday Chazz Palminteri… Thanks for sharing your life and Dreams!

Sometime in 1993, George Steinbrenner asked me to come into his office because he had someone there that he wanted …

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