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A brief history of the phrase "Manny Being Manny"

By Mike Hume

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Batting .350 while leading the Red Sox to their first World Series title in 86 years? Just Manny Being Manny. Rocking a coif only Captain Jack Sparrow could love? You know the line. Since he entered the league, the phrase "Manny being Manny" has appeared in print over 1,621 times, according to the Lexis Nexis search engine. (A Google search for the phrase can yield upwards of five million hits.) Everyone knows the subtext behind "Manny being Manny, " but the history behind the phrase is a bi ...

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