Good article in the NY Times today about Manny Ramirez 'reuniting' with Charlie Manuel in the NLCS.
Small snippet:
It would have been captivating television, if only someone had used a video camera to follow around the folksy West Virginia-born hitting coach and his flaky Dominican pupil through minor league outposts and on to Cleveland, their profiles soaring together. They could have called the video "Manny and Charlie Being Manny and Charlie."
But even without such footage, the real-life narrative that links the unlikely pair of Manny Ramirez and Charlie Manuel continues to be a fascinating one. For all their differences, each man knows how it feels to be underestimated.
... Perhaps some of the misunderstandings about Ramirez and Manuel helped create a bond between them; they remain friends more than 15 years after their paths first crossed. With the Dodgers and the Phillies set to meet in the National League Championship Series, in a reprise of playoff matchups from 1977, '78 and '83, there may be no subplot as intriguing or as strategically important as the one involving Manuel and Ramirez.
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