The playful face and sometimes quizzical comments are back. The old Manny Ramírez, the one who talked and smiled and hit home runs at a prodigious pace, is back. Though he managed to insert one off-year into a career bound for the Hall of Fame, Ramírez seems to have recaptured it, along with the persona that he used ... (Full article: 593 words)

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