last night MANNY RAMIREZ #99 for the L.A. DODGERS made homerun history when he hit his 537th career homerun which put his past mickey mantle on the all time great list.
manny is now ranked-15th on the all time homerun list following only 3-active players in major league baseball: jim thome has 557-homeruns at #13 and alex rodriguez has 572 at #10 and ken griffey junior has 621 at #5.
manuel aristides ramirez onelcida or just manny for short was born in santo domingo dominican republic on may 30 of 1972. he is a 9-time silver slugger and is 1/25 people to have hit over 500-career homeruns. he also holds the record for the most career grand slams (20) by any active player and the second most all time trailing behind LOU GEHRIG who had 23-career grand slams.
manny was traded to the dodgers in july of 2008 and signed a 2-year $45-million dollar contract with los angeles in march of this year. and in early may he was suspended for 50-games for violating the mlb performance enhancing drug policy. according to an espn report the drug used by manny was hcg or human chorionic gonadotropin which increases natural testosterone production and is often used in conjunction with steroids. manny returned to the dodgers on july 3rd in a game against the san diego padres and three weeks later hes breaking records . . . pretty amazing.
GO MANNY !! GO DODGER BLUE !!
