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"Becoming Manny" -- Farewell, Boston

By Jean Rhodes and Shawn Boburg
Page 2

Monday, March 9, 2009

Editor's note: Excerpted from "Becoming Manny: Inside the Life of Baseball's Most Enigmatic Slugger", by Jean Rhodes and Shawn Boburg. Copyright © 2009 by Jean Rhodes and Shawn Boburg. Reprinted with permission by Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Chapter 29 -- 2008: 500 Home Runs in Dodger Blue Manny was coming off perhaps his best month as a pro, but there was little time to enjoy it. He was entering the last guaranteed year of his contract, and to him it seemed unlikely th ...

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