Manny Ramirez and Los Angeles Dodgers: A Microcosm of MLB’s Steroid Era

With a long history, rich with tradition and ceremony, baseball is—more than any other sport—conducive to story-telling and folklore. Baseball has also, more than any other sport, been a subject of the Hollywood movie landscape with plenty of diamond-centric classics like The Natural, Bull Durham, and Field of Dreams.

Ironic, then, that Hollywood (or should I say "Mannywood") should be the setting for baseball's latest, and perhaps most relevant, made-for-the-silver-screen storyline.

The Steroid Era.

It's no secret now that Manny Ramirez was among the perhaps hundreds of major league baseball players who, throughout the 1990s and into the first decade of the 21st century, used performance-enhan...

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