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March 11, 2008
Welcome back to the Mannybeingmanny sub-blog, in which we provide a roundup of news concerning the Red Sox' superb and enigmatic left fielder. Manny may be a bit player in some of the items, or he might be the star. But in either case, he's always being Manny.
As Joe McDonald reported here last week, Ramirez had a special gift last week for second baseman Dustin Pedroia, congratulating Pedroia for winning last year's American League Rookie of the Year award: He presented Pedroia a Rolex watch.
Ramirez's name is one of 40,000 added to Massachusetts' list of abandoned property. Ramirez apparently has $10,000 in a dormant bank account.
ESPN.com's Gene Wojciechowski has a feature about Gregg Forwerck, whom Wojciechowski calls the Annie Leibovitz of sports trading card photographers. One of Forwerck's strangest works, apparently, is a Bowman rookie card of Ramirez, who is seen sporting a striped shirt and posing in front of the chapel at Duke University (Ramirez was in Durham with Cleveland's farm team to play a Triple A game).
According to Jeff Horrigan of The Boston Herald, one of the more intriguing sights of the Red Sox clubhouse recently was Ramirez reading the self-motivational book The Secret with a highlighter in hand.
This one will make you cringe. AP writer Gregg Bell has a feature on Seattle Mariners infielders Yuniesky Betancourt and Adrian Beltre, who tempt fate by declining to wear protective cups on the field. Beltre does this despite knowing the story of Josias Manzanillo, an unfortunate relief pitcher who was not wearing a protective cup in 1997 when he found himself on the receiving end of a low liner from Ramirez.
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