The Last Second Chance for Manny Ramirez: "it was one act of identity at the end of what may be a lost career. Someone who'd already had a clutch of identities developed for him by his own foolishness and by other people — idiot savant, childlike genius, clubhouse killer, reckless hedonist, drug cheat — when the only real identity he ever had was one of the greatest hitters of the baseball in the past 50 years. "