A query on translation

[joeallonby]

on 4/16/03 11:14 AM, Malignd at malignd at yahoo.com wrote:

> <<... and maybe he will discover why it is lots of new
> yorkers say "interested on" and why some even say
> "interesting on." >>
> 
> Although I disbelieve the word "lots," Ed can check in
> with me for the answer when he brings me my check.
> 
> When I was a child, there was an ad for the Boys Club
> of America or some such well-intended organization
> that appeared on the inside back cover of some comic
> books, itself in the form of a comic strip.  It told
> of a young teenager, a rube from our country's farm
> belt, who visited his cousin in New York one summer.
> 
> He went of a day with the city boy to play baseball,
> only to reap sandlot dismay upon discovering his
> cousin's friends to be, well, different:  not white,
> all of them, and not altogether fluent, some, in the
> mother tongue.  The yokel thought them "not of our
> kind."  
> 
> Later, caught up in the action of the game underway,
> one of the off-white lads cried out, "Caramba!  That's
> hitting them baseball!"  Of which fractured locution
> the rube remarked, in an aside to his cousin, "get
> that:  can't even speak English!"  Yet only a few
> frames later, the young Latino hit a homerun, enabling
> the city cousin to plant the needle in Jethro's
> chagrin, saying "I guess THAT's hitting them
> baseball!"
> 
> Alas, these years later, that young rural (wiser now,
> he hopes) has grown into the man typing these words.
> 
> And that young Latino boy, also grown to manhood, has
> moved in next door to Terrance.
> 
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Was the young lad from Washington Heights named Manny Ramirez?