Casual Friday: Bans, Deaths & Births (So To Speak)

The Yankees are all about the pinstripes, in every sense of the word. The rest of MLB is more casual. This is the latest post in a Friday series called Casual Friday, in which I take a quick look around the rest of Major League Baseball.* Manny Ramirez took HCG, a women's fertility drug for a "personal health issue," not to use as a PED. The drug is often prescribed to men for a number of different conditions, including male infertility. Perhaps Manny wasn't looking to gain an unfair advantage while performing on the field, but rather a level playing field while performing in the bedroom. If so, was he so embarrassed about having to seek medical attention for personal performance problems that he didn't appeal a 50 game suspension?* Baseball lost two more of its own this week: Dom DiMaggio and Danny Ozark. DiMaggio, a younger brother of Yankee great Joe DiMaggio was 92. Dom was a 5-feet 9-inch bespectacled outfielder who played for the Red Sox in the 1940s. He ...