Papi My Story Author:David Ortiz, Michael Holley New York Times Bestseller — — ?[A] freewheeling, insider memoir . . . Now [Ortiz?s] many fans have a book in which the hitter looks back at his extraordinary run and what made it go.??Boston Globe — — David ?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 fifte... more »en years, David helped the team win three World Series, bringing back a storied franchise from ?never wins? to ?always wins.? He helped them upend the doubters, the naysayers, the nonbelievers and, as he launched balls into the stands again, and again, and again, he captured the imagination of millions of fans along the way. Ortiz made Boston and the Red Sox his home, his place of work, and his legacy. As he put it: This is our f*ing city.
In Papi, his ultimate memoir, Ortiz opens up as never before. 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.« less