Advance Praise for
The Greatest Story Never Told: The Babe and Jackie

The Greatest Story Never Told is probably the most important children’s book that you and your kids will read together.

Roberto Alomar,
12 time Major League All Star Second Baseman


Ray Negron tells a feel-good tale of tolerance and understanding in The Greatest Story Never Told: The Babe and Jackie. Just like he did in The Boy of Steel, Negron gives children and their parents a charming roadmap to better days ahead. This home run touches them all.

Ian O'Connor
author, Arnie & Jack


"IN THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD,  RAY NEGRON HAS OFFERED US AN UPLIFTING AND STRAIGHTFORWARD WAY TO TEACH OUR SON AUSTIN ABOUT TOLERANCE, MULTICULTURALISM, TEAMWORK,  AND FRIENDSHIP. WE EXPECT TO READ IT AGAIN, AND AGAIN."

David Ushery
NBC News Anchor and Isabel Rivera-Ushery


Baseball can tie together so many important lessons in one neat package. That makes the game a powerful teaching tool for children, and Ray Negron understands that. This book offers lessons of race, friendship, sorrow and hope in a way that children will love to learn and parents will love to teach.

Dan Graziano
Chairman, New York Chapter,
Baseball Writers Association of America



Parents must have their kids read this book, the message is that important.

Bobby Abreu
New York Yankees


An important lesson for all the children of the world.

Scott Clark
WABC TV


Ray Negron hits a grand slam with his powerful and inspirational story.  This book is a testament to Ray’s own hero, George Steinbrenner, and to the game of baseball.

Adele C. Smithers
The Christopher D. Smithers Foundation, Inc.


The Babe and Jackie together, can only lead to courage, love, heart and soul.  Truly The Greatest Story Never Told.

Willie Randolph
Manager NY Mets


The impact of what the Babe and Jackie Robinson show and the greatest Story Never Told is something that will live forever— It makes me proud to work in this great game

Omar Minaya
General Manager, NY Mets


“An inspiring story, one any child who has ever played baseball will find irresistible. The Greatest Story Never Told: The Babe and Jackie is grand-slam of magical realism. Ray Negron uses the game’s biggest legends to teach children one of life’s most crucial lessons. “

Juan Gonzalez
New York Daily News


Baseball's greatest stars--like Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, and Roberto Clemente--have always transcended the sport.  In the follow-up to his wonderfully touching The Boy of Steel, Ray Negron uses pieces of baseball's past to spread messages of tolerance and courage.  If these are issues you have difficulty dealing with as a parent, you'll appreciate the message being sent in The Greatest Story Never Told."

Sweeny Murti
WFAN Radio


Ray Negron has done it again. With baseball as the backdrop, he has fashioned another indelible tale of the indomitability of the human spirit. It's about time that someone told what had been The Greatest Story Never Told. We're lucky it was Negron.

Jeremy Schaap
ESPN commentator and
author of Triumph and Cinderella Man


Courage, Compassion, Love.  That can only equal to Babe Ruth and Jackie Robinson, who I am named after.  Best I ever read

Robinson Cano
NY Yankees


Babe Ruth and Jackie Robinson have had a major impact in Japan and like The Greatest Story Never Told, their legend will live on forever.

Hideki Matsui
NY Yankees


Babe Ruth was the greatest baseball player ever.
Jackie Robinson was the greatest athlete to play the game.
Together they can only be the Greatest Story Never Told.

Bob Feller
Cleveland Indians Hall of Famer


"Babe Ruth, in all his complexity, is a  Ruthian challenge to capsulate  for a child's book.  Ray has managed with his wonderful writing talent, to capture the true caring essence of the Babe and Jackie as they really were! Thank you Ray.

Linda Ruth Tosetti
Granddaughter of Babe Ruth


"The Greatest Story Never Told is a tale of tolerance using baseball history as a guide. Black or white, healthy or sick, Yankees fan or Dodgers fan, children will learn valuable lessons as they meet some of the giants of the game."

Tyler Kepner
New York Times


“The Greatest Story Never Told” by Ray Negron, will quickly rise to the top of the Children’s Best Seller list all over the world. The life lessons that the author deals with are powerful and true in our everyday world. Children will grow and benefit from reading this book with their parents. It opens the door to so many real life events and circumstances that the youth of today face in the future. The children who read and experience this story will surely have a positive impact on our society in the future.

Carl Ferraro
Spalding Baseball


Ray Negron takes young readers on a journey into the heart of baseball, which is where the Babe and Jackie always will live. It is also a journey into the heart, period, which reminds us that we really aren't as different from each other as we think.

Thank goodness the Greatest Story Never Told has been told!

Mark Herrmann
Newsday