Manny Ramirez Arrested: ‘Manny Being Manny’ and Public Perception of MLB Fame

On September 12th, 2011 former Red Sox slugger and baseball great Manny Ramirez was arrested under allegations of domestic abuse.

Fame, I’ve realized, is a funny thing. That’s something that fans like myself may never really understand, but that doesn’t make it any less true. Fame is so unusual and different from the lives that so many of us live.

My mother is a teacher. My father is an accountant. My friends are students and no one that I’ve ever really gotten to know has ever reached the status that the word "fame" conveys. It’s a foreign concept for our compre...

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