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Article: PASSION & PAIN STRONG WILL FUELS MANZANILLO'S RESILIENCY.(Sports)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- April 11, 1997
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For more than half of his young life, he has bounced around professional baseball, leaving his native Dominican Republic for tiny Elmira, N.Y., 15 years ago.
And everywhere Josias Manzanillo has gone, he has bounced. Not to mention twirled, sprinted, gestured, pumped fists and talked loudly to himself, all in the vicinity of the pitcher's mound, where he makes his living.
Manzanillo possesses a special zeal for the game, as Mariner followers delightfully discovered over the past week, adopting him as a smaller-scale Mark Fidrych, the ultimate baseball zany. Unfortunately for Seattle's 29-year-old ((age)) reliever, in the his many travels there has been ...