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Tinseltown Is Swooning Over Manny
The addition of Manny Ramírez to the Dodgers' lineup has tickets, T-shirts and jerseys in short supply in Los Angeles.
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Nobody seems to be lapping up the presence in Los Angeles of Manny Ramírez more than Dodger fans, who sold out the first two games the left fielder played at Dodger Stadium and purchased more than $125,000 worth of No. 99 T-shirts and jerseys since the slugger was acquired Thursday from the Red Sox.
When the team returns home from its upcoming six-game road trip, it will find brown dreadlocks and blue ones for sale in the team stores.
OF Juan Pierre, who has played at Dodger Stadium for nine years, the last two as a member of the home team, said he hasn't seen a hitter generate this kind of reaction here since Gary Sheffield during the early part of this decade.
"He has that kind of response when he comes to the plate," Pierre said of Ramírez.
Batting fourth, Ramírez is cleaning up with a .615 batting average, five RBI and a 1.154 slugging percentage in three games as a Dodger. The team has averaged 6.5 runs in its last two games after averaging 2.9 in its previous 10.
"It's unbelievable," C Russell Martin said. "We feel like we just won the lottery."
· FRIENDLY IN PHILLY: For the second consecutive year, the menu at Philadelphia's Citizens Bank Ballpark was named the most vegetarian-friendly by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
The faux Philly cheesesteak was among the items that landed the Phillies' ballpark in first place last year, along with meat-free subs and wraps and veggie dogs and burgers. Now the stadium has added crab-free crab cake and a mock chicken sandwich.
San Francisco's AT&T Park placed second again this year. The home of the Giants features a portobello mushroom sandwich, vegetarian sushi, and the vegetarian cha cha bowl, which is filled with black beans, rice, and pineapple salsa.
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