Johnny's place

The 11-room Brookline house that New York Yankees outfielder Johnny Damon and his wife, Michelle, called home for the last season he patrolled center field at Fenway was sold to Raya and Victor Spivak for $5.05 million. The Damons had added a pool, pool house, and a cabana. In an interview early in the 2005 season, Michelle Damon said the couple was reluctant to do more work on their Boston home until the lead-off hitter's contract was settled with the Red Sox. It proved to be a wise real estate move. Their former home, a 7,000-square-foot, six-bedroom house on Woodland Road in Chestnut Hill , went on the market earlier this year for $5.85 million and was reduced to $5.75 million a short time later. Carol Adolph of Otis & Ahearn Real Estate in Charlestown had the listing. Earlier this year, the couple bought a $5.59 million apartment in a luxe Manhattan high-rise.

Meantime, Damon's former teammate, Sox slugger Manny Ramirez, still has his 4,421-square-foot penthouse in the Ritz-Carlton Towers on the market, but with no price reductions even though it's unsold after a year. The 37th-floor perch remains listed at $6.9 million. Boston Realty Advisors has the listing. But given that the Ramirezes had a Fenway Park-decorated room (with its own Green Monster) -- perhaps we could suggest that new Sox right fielder J.D. Drew or shortstop Julio Lugo check it out?

Carol Beggy can be reached at cbeggy@globe.com.