Boston Herald · Feb 14, 2017
Buckley: Life after Big Papi David Ortiz begins for the Red Sox
Credit: Matt StoneFORT MYERS — Walk into the Red Sox clubhouse at JetBlue Park and the first thing you notice is what you don’t notice. You don’t notice David Ortiz.
There’s no way around it. The locker staring back at you when you enter the clubhouse, just to the left, is where Ortiz used to dress. But it was more than a dressing stall; Big Papi’s precious corner unit was always the Elks Lodge of the JetBlue home clubhouse, a place to gab, to laugh, to swap tales, to trade gossip.
That this smidge of Florida real estate now belongs to Hanley Ramirez did not escape the attention of veteran second baseman Dustin Pedroia when he arrived in camp.
