Big Papi: The Legend and Legacy of David Ortiz
By The Boston Globe, John Henry and Pedro Martinez
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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