num_pages: 272
description: An entertaining unfiltered memoir by one of the games greatest most clutch sluggers and beloved personalitiesDavid Big Papi Ortiz is a baseball icon and one of the most popular figures ever to play the game. As a key part of the Boston Red Sox for 14 years David has helped the team win 3 World Series bringing back a storied franchise from never wins to always wins. He helped them upend the doubts the naysayers the nonbelievers and captured the imagination of millions of fans along the way as he launched balls into the stands again and again and again. He made Boston and the Red Sox his home his place of work and his legacy. As he put This is our f*ing city . Now looking back at the end of his legendary career Ortiz opens up fully for the first time about his last two decades in the game. Unhindered by political correctness Ortiz talks colorfully about his journey from his poor upbringing in the Dominican Republic to when the expansion Florida Marlins passed up a chance to sign him due to what was essentially tennis elbow. He recalls his days in Peoria Arizona his first time in the United States; tense exchanges with Twins manager Tom Kelly in Minnesota; and his arrival in Boston. Readers go behind the scenes for the many milestones of his Red Sox career from the huge disappointment of the Red Sox losing to the Yankees in 2003 ending the curse in 2004 with the infamous band of idiots including his extraordinary clutch hitting to overcome a 3-0 series deficit against the Yankees to earning a second title in 2007 and a third in 2013. Along the way he was tainted by the infamous banned substances list in 2009; he used his passion and place to fortify a city devastated by the Boston Marathon bombings; and he dominated pitchers right up through his retirement season at age 40. Papi as he became so affectionately called gave his fans big hits when they needed them most. He was an even bigger He was a champion who rallied a team a city and a sport in a way that no one will ever forget. In Papi  his ultimate memoir Ortiz opens up as never before about his life in baseball and about the problems he sees in Major League Baseball about former teammates opponents coaches and executives and about the weight of expectation whenever he stepped up to the plate. The result is a revelatory fly-on-the wall story of a career by a player with a lot to say at the end of his time in the game a game to which he gave so much and which gave so much to him.
language: English
title: Papi: My Story
publisher: Mariner Books