The Boston Red Sox will have another farewell party at the end of the 2016 season that will close the book on the 20 year Major League career of David Ortiz. Ortiz, however, did not spend his entire career with Boston as two previous Red Sox notables had – Ted Williams and Carl Yastrzemski. Ortiz played six seasons with the Minnesota Twins before cementing his baseball history in Boston.
Williams and Yastrzemski were both highly touted young players who arrived in town with a splash. For Williams, it was as a chippy young player vowing to return and wreak havoc on pitchers after being demoted and scolded by veterans during his spring training stay.