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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. |
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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Past as Prologue; Two men who know Papi best (Pedro Martinez and John Henry) reflect on his tenure in Boston; Early Years; A few teams traded or cut David Ortiz adrift before the Red Sox landed him, unheralded, in late 2002; Glory Days; From 2003 through 2013, Ortiz delivered seemingly scripted heroics, bringing Boston a trio of titles; Mr. Personality; Ortiz's charismatic approach to the game enabled him to quickly become the face of the franchise; The Man. |
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A defiant declaration illustrated Papi's penchant for drawing people together and made him a civic iconThe Legacy; A pure DH has never made the Hall of Fame, but Ortiz's case is the most compelling one yet; Final Season; The farewell tour included the usual good bye gifts, as well as an unusually robust final-year stat line; The Numbers; A compendium of meaningful figures, random stats, and data from 14 seasons in Boston and beyond; Credits and Acknowledgments. |
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Boston Red Sox (Baseball team)
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Boston Red Sox (Baseball team) (OCoLC)fst00533920
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GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports.
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Globe, The Boston.
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Henry, John.
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Print version: Martinez, Pedro. Big Papi. [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2016 1629373478 9781629373478 (OCoLC)946216912 |
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9781633196285 (electronic bk.) |
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1633196283 (electronic bk.) |
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9781633196261 (electronic bk.) |
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1633196267 (electronic bk.) |
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