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By By Dan Le Batard

Wednesday, April 2, 2003

The $160 million child still lives in a $700-a-month apartment. Still drives a 1996 Impala. Still flies coach. Even now, Manny Ramirez shops for the lowest price when buying car rims, airplane tickets, even flowers for his mother, because he remembers what it was like to grow up sharing a single bed with three siblings. Baseball has forever extracted the $160 million child from the poverty, but it can't ever extract the poverty from the $160 million child, and that's why the enormous, sparkling ...

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