{"id":1201,"date":"2013-01-22T18:40:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T23:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2013-01-22T18:40:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T23:40:51","slug":"terry-francona-fills-his-new-book-with-manny-ramirez-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/01\/22\/terry-francona-fills-his-new-book-with-manny-ramirez-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Terry Francona fills his new book with Manny Ramirez stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Terry Francona’s new book will talk a lot about his time with the Boston Red Sox and a lot about former outfielder Manny Ramirez.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrancona: The Red Sox Years,\u2019\u2019 co-authored by Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy will detail his eight year run as the manager of the Boston Red Sox naturally there are plenty of Ramirez stories to be told.<\/p>\n

Here are a few from Boston.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Francona\u2019s exasperation turns to anger when he recalls the incident when Ramirez shoved 64-year-old traveling secretary Jack McCormick to the ground when the mercurial slugger was denied a late, unreasonable request for 16 tickets in Houston during the 2008 season.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt took me a few seconds to realize this wasn\u2019t in fun,\u201d Francona said. \u201cThere were not a lot of guys around when I got out there, and I saw Jack leaning against a table, kind of dazed. I grabbed Manny and said, \u2018What the [expletive] are you doing?\u2019 I was hoping he wasn\u2019t going to hit me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ramirez was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers later that season but there were plenty of events which paint the former outfielder in a similar light.<\/p>\n

Two years earlier, during a five-game August sweep at the hands of the Yankees that effectively ended their season, Ramirez pulled himself from the finale in the fourth inning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ll never forget that,\u2019\u2019 Francona said. \u201cHe came off the field, walked down the dugout steps, yelled over, and said, \u2018Hamstring!\u2019 and I said, \u2018Manny, which one?, and he pointed with both hands to both hamstrings. He was like, \u2018You pick. [Expletive], I\u2019m coming out. It was funny later, but it wasn\u2019t funny at the time. I had had it with Manny at that point.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the book Francona mentions how he nearly quit because team owner John Henry wanted him to a public apology to Ramirez for criticizing his play. When Francona found out Ramirez had been traded he broke down in tears.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Terry Francona’s new book will talk a lot about his time with the Boston Red Sox and a lot about former outfielder Manny Ramirez. \u201cFrancona: The Red Sox Years,\u2019\u2019 co-authored by Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy will detail his eight year run as the manager of the Boston Red Sox naturally there are plenty of Ramirez […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-1201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}