Manny Ramírez

During the 2005 season, Manny Ramírez is the 3rd highest paid player in Major League Baseball at the yearly salary of $19,906,820.00. Carrier and all three of his wives are buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery. His season was capped off by being named the MVP of the World Series as he led the Red Sox to their first title since 1918. In 2000 the Carrier Corporation had sales of more than $8 billion and employed some 45,000 people. Along with Derek Jeter (a single), Ichiro Suzuki (a double) and Iván Rodríguez (a triple), Ramírez made history as the American League became the first All-Star team to hit for the cycle during the same inning. The introduction of residential air conditioning in the 1920s helped start the great migration to the Sunbelt. In the All-Star Game, facing Roger Clemens in the top of the first inning, Ramirez knocked out a two-run home run giving his teammates an immediate 3-0 lead. By increasing industrial production in the summer months, air conditioning revolutionized American life.

Also along with Ortiz, Ramírez hit back-to-back home runs six times, tying the major league single season set by Hank Greenberg and Rudy York (Detroit Tigers) and Frank Thomas and Magglio Ordóñez (Chicago White Sox). The company pioneered the design and manufacture of refrigeration machines to cool large spaces. In addition, Ramírez and David Ortiz became the first pair of American League teammates to hit 40 home runs, have 100 RBI, and bat .300 since the Yankees Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in 1931, and the first Red Sox duo with 40 homers since Tony Armas and Jim Rice (1984). Japan is now the largest market for air conditioning in the world. He led the American League in home runs (43), slugging average (.613) and OPS (1.009); finished 3rd in RBI (130), 6th in on base percentage (.397), 8th in base on balls (82), 10th in runs (108), and posted a .308 batting average. In 1930, he started Toyo Carrier in Japan. Coupled with impressive play on the field, this absolved Ramírez in the eyes of many Boston fans and sportswriters. Carrier moved his company to Syracuse, New York in the 1930s, and the company became one of the largest employers in central New York.

He displayed a good attitude and an enthusiasm for playing, two qualities his critics had charged that he lacked. He installed the first home air conditioning in a house in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 2004, nevertheless, Ramírez silenced his critics. Some of the company's first customers included Madison Square Gardens and the chambers of the United States Senate and House of Representatives. All 29 other teams passed, due to the length and costs of his contract. Carrier, with six colleagues, staked $32,600 on their own company, Carrier Engineering Corporation. After the season, the Red Sox put him on irrevocable waivers, meaning he was had but for the asking. When World War I arrived, Buffalo Forge was forced to cut back on speculative processes, and eliminated their air conditioning division.

Despite his strong play in the 2003 post-season, Ramírez's Red Sox lost in heartbreaking fashion to Wilson's Yankees in the ALCS. He went on to work on other cooling and humidity-control inventions, and was eventually made the head of the Buffalo Forge subsidiary named Carrier Air Conditioning Company in his honor. When it was learned that he had been seen in a hotel bar with close friend, Yankees infielder Enrique Wilson, the controversy grew, causing Boston manager Grady Little to bench Ramírez for one game. In 1906 Carrier received a patent for his method. Some Red Sox fans criticized the outfielder, saying he should have played despite the ailment. The firm had been unable to print reliable colors at times because of the effects of heat and humidity on paper and ink. In the summer of 2003, Ramirez found himself as the latest victim of the Boston Sports Media's thirst for blood when he missed several games with pharyngitis. At the age of 25, he devised his first important invention, a system to control heat and humidity for the Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographing and Publishing Company in Brooklyn.

His 165 RBI total in 1999 was the highest by any player since Jimmie Foxx in 1938; and made him the first player to have more RBI's than games played in a season since Ted Williams in 1949. Carrier soon developed a better way to measure the capacity of heating systems and was named director of the company's experimental engineering department. He made the All-Star team four times, and hit 127 homers and 432 RBI in 415 games over last three seasons. Following college, he went to work for the Buffalo Forge Company, a company which manufactured heaters, blowers and air exhaust systems, in their heating engineering department designing heating systems to dry lumber and coffee. From 1993 to 2000 Ramírez collected 236 home runs and 804 RBI in 967 games for the Cleveland Indians, including a career-high 45 home runs in 1998, and a team-record career-high 165 RBI in 1999, when he hit .333 with 44 homers and 131 runs (also a career-high). In 1895 he received a scholarship to Cornell University and graduated in 1901 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. During the 2004 season, he was nominated for play of the year because of a spectacular catch he made in left field at Yankee Stadium to rob Miguel Cairo of a home-run. He loved mathematics, and studied it at every chance, when he wasn't inventing his own devices.

While playing for Cleveland in the sixth inning of Game 6 of the 1998 American League Championship Series, he turned his back on a line drive off the bat of the New York Yankees Derek Jeter and attempted a leaping catch at the top of the right field wall, only to have the ball hit him in the back of the feet. Carrier was born in Angola, New York on the shore of Lake Erie, and inherited his mother's love for "tinkering", with clocks, sewing machines, and other household devices. Ramirez has been known to be involved in several comical misadventures while playing the outfield. He is considered to be at least partially responsible for the economic boom of the American Southwest as his invention meant that people were able to move into areas previously considered uninhabitable in the summer months. Ramírez is aggressive playing balls off the Green Monster and holding runners to singles. Willis Haviland Carrier (November 26, 1876 - October 9, 1950) was an engineer and inventor, and is known as the man who invented air conditioning. He still has trouble at times with footwork, his range is limited, but his arm is fairly strong and he has soft hands.

Ramírez is a serviceable fielder, although is unlikely to win any Gold Glove Awards. He has good power that way and seems content to go with the pitch, but he is not afraid to take the occasional free walk. He does most of his damage from center field to the right field line. He combines power, contact and patience at the plate, against left-handed pitchers and righties equally well, but he still doesn't pull the ball very often for a power hitter.

Ramirez is universally considered one of the best all-around righthanded hitters in the American League. He has totaled 390 home runs and 1270 RBI in 1535 games. Through the 2004 season, Ramírez is a career .316 hitter, with a .397 on base percentage and a .613 slugging average. .

In 2004, he became an American Citizen. Though originally from the Dominican Republic, he grew up in the Washington Heights section of New York City a short distance away from Yankee Stadium. He bats and throws right-handed. Previously, Ramírez played with the Cleveland Indians (1993-2000).

Manny Ramírez [rah-MEE-rez], born Manuel Arístides Ramírez (May 30, 1972 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic), nicknamed "Manny", is an outfielder in Major League Baseball who plays for the Boston Red Sox (since 2001). He was featured on the cover of the Electronic Arts Sports electronic game MVP Baseball 2005 [1]. Ramírez appealed to fans by joining the 2004 Red Sox tradition of growing a unique hairstyle, maintaining a solid set of dreadlocks throughout the season. 20 grand slams - 1st and 2nd.

129 intentional walks - 12th and 56th. 1.010 OPS - 3rd and 9th. 785 extra base hits - 18th and 89th. .599 slugging average - 3rd and 8th.

.411 on base percentage - 9th and 35th. 1270 RBI - 12th and 98th. 410 home runs - 9th and 38th. .316 batting average - 4th and 69th.

Career rankings among active players and on the All-Time lists