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The CMR manganites are one of the most interesting and widely noticed objects in the physical and materials sciences based on their possible application on CMR properties and sensor technology at low-temperature, strong correlation characteristic, ordering of spin/charge/orbital including lattice degree of freedom. In this paper, a Kondo-like transport was observed in the term of a metal-semiconductor transition at low temperature in this ferromagnetic metallic phase system. The experiments show that this kind of Kondo-like behavior can be tuned with an applied magnetic field and depends strongly on the content of a spin glass phase, which can be explained by the scattering of spin disorder or/and antiferromagnetic cluster in a micro-scale. In undoped sample, the M-SC transition would mean the existence of intrinsic spin disorder with magnetic inhomogeneities and gives a direct evidence of Kondo effect in ferromagnetic metallic manganites. It was also proved that Kondo-like abnormity appears not only in the metal containing small amounts of magnetic impurities but also in ferromagnetic conducting compound containing the spin disorder clusters, which would possibly be one of general characteristics for the strong correlation manganites. © 2006 American Institute of Physics [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]