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An interesting, unfiltered memoir by one of the game's greatest, most clutch sluggers and beloved personalities David "Big Papi" Ortiz is a football icon and one of the most popular figures ever to play the game. As an integral part of the Boston Red Sox for 14 years, David has helped the team succeed three World Series, taking back a storied franchise from "never wins" to "always wins". He helped them upend the concerns, the naysayers, and the nonbelievers and captured the thoughts of millions of fans on the way, as he launched balls into the stands over and over and again. He made Boston and the Red Sox his home, his place of work, and his legacy. As he said: This is our f*&#ing city. Now, looking again at the end of his famous career, Ortiz starts up completely for the very first time about his previous 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 extension Florida Marlins handed up an opportunity to sign him credited from what was essentially tennis elbow. He recalls his days and nights in Peoria, Az, his first-time in america; tense exchanges with Twins director Tom Kelly in Minnesota; and his entrance in Boston. Listeners go behind the scenes for the countless milestones of his Red Sox position - from the huge disappointment of the Red Sox dropping to the Yankees in 2003, ending the curse in 2004 with the infamous "strap of idiots", including his amazing clutch hitting to get over a 3-0 series deficit resistant to the Yankees, to generating a second name in 2007 and a 3rd in 2013. Along the way he was tainted by the infamous forbidden substances list in 2009 2009; he used his interest and place to fortify a city devastated by the Boston Marathon bombings; and he dominated pitchers right up through his retirement living season at get older 40. Papi, as he became so affectionately called, gave his admirers big hits when they needed them most. He was an even bigger occurrence: He was a champ who rallied a team, a city, and a sport in a way that no one will ever ignore. In Papi, his ultimate memoir, Ortiz starts up as nothing you've seen prior about his life in football and about the problems he considers in Major Little league Baseball, about former teammates, opponents, mentors, and executives, and about the weight of expectation whenever he stepped up to the plate. The result is a revelatory, fly-on-the wall membrane story of any career by a player with too much to say at the end of his amount of time in the game, a game to which he gave a great deal and which gave a great deal to him.
