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    Big Papi: The Legend and Legacy of David Ortiz
    Big Papi: The Legend and Legacy of David Ortiz
    Big Papi: The Legend and Legacy of David Ortiz
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    Big Papi: The Legend and Legacy of David Ortiz

    By The Boston Globe, John Henry and Pedro Martinez

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    With more than 500 career home runs, an infectious personality, and three World Series championships, David Ortiz has established his position as the greatest Red Sox player of this generation. But Ortiz' story did not start with postseason heroics and towering blasts into the Fenway Park bleachers. Ortiz struggled to find his power stroke in parts of six seasons with the Minnesota Twins, who released him after the 2002 season. Then Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein signed Ortiz in 2003 and the 27 year old soon became known as Big Papi, setting career highs with 31 home runs and 101 RBIs. The next season, the Red Sox won the franchise's first World Series championship in 86 years. Ortiz hit .409 in the postseason, twice driving in the game-winning runs as the Red Sox overcame a 3-0 deficit to top the Yankees in the ALCS. Big Papi hit a franchise-record 54 home runs in 2006 and led the team to a second World Series title in 2007. Ortiz continued his assault on American League pitching into his late-30s. At age 37, he hit .688 in the 2013 World Series to earn MVP honors as the Red Sox topped the Cardinals. Following a 2015 season in which he hit 37 home runs at age 39, Ortiz announced that the 2016 season would be his last. Ortiz' unforgettable career is chronicled in this new, must-have keepsake book from the Boston Globe. Big Papi: The Legend & Legacy of David Ortiz features 128 pages of award-winning reporting, vivid storytelling, dramatic photographs, and statistics capturing the unforgettable moments from Big Papi's arrival in Boston to his farewell tour in 2016. This one of a kind career retrospective is the perfect souvenir for any Red Sox Fan.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateNov 15, 2016
    ISBN9781633196261
    Big Papi: The Legend and Legacy of David Ortiz

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      Big Papi - The Boston Globe

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      EARLY YEARS

      BIG PAPI // THE LEGEND AND LEGACY OF DAVID ORTIZ

      Fans watch a game at the Lindos Suenos or Beautiful Dreams field in El Mamon, Dominican Republic, not far from David Ortiz’s birthplace of Santo Domingo.

      Ortiz, then a Twin, avoids a swipe tag by Red Sox second baseman Jeff Frye in a July 2000 game.

      DOMINICAN DRIVE AND A

      MINNESOTA MISSTEP

      BY JOHN POWERS

      He originally wanted to be Michael Jordan.

      David Ortiz was an imposing manchild who could make plenty of space for himself beneath a basketball rim. But if you lived in the Dominican Republic, your role models were Juan Marichal and Felipe Alou and the rest of the island’s storied ballplayers. Once Ortiz vaulted the fence that separated the court from the diamond and swatted a home run in his first at-bat, he was hooked on horsehide.

      Enrique Ortiz had been a promising pitcher but his burly son grew up swinging at bottle caps, doll heads, stuffed socks – anything that could pass for a baseball. By 16, David had been discovered by a local scout and passed on to the Florida Marlins, then an expansion franchise that was building a system from

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