Manny Ramirez ready to help where needed

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    Only Manny Ramirez could draw a crowd as big as any current Chicago Cubs player but he isn't interested in much of the spotlight anymore. He's finally ready to quit the dream of playing in the majors again and simply wants to help where he can.

    "You cannot play for the rest of your life," Ramirez said on his first day of his new job as Cubs hitting consultant. "I just want to be in the game and help people and see people grow."

    Surrounded by a couple dozen reporters in the Cubs spring facility on Wednesday morning, Ramirez said he is committed to showing the team's much-heralded young players the right way to go about their business. It's not something he's always done himself, but when Cubs president Theo Epstein called him last year to help out in the minors, he took to his new role.

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